AG on New Media

My proposal and storyboard for the midterm assignment are available for download as PDFs after the jump…
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Cheryl Diaz Meyer’s piece on digital photojournalism in Afghanistan revealed two new “truths” of journalism today: the importance of a deep understanding of the tools we use daily and the value of the Internet as a reporting aid.

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Here’s a picture I took of the Blue Lagoon in Iceland. Originally, it was overexposed:

Here it is after a bit of color correction:

Significant improvement!

In “From Tom Paine to Blogs and Beyond,” from his book We the Media, Dan Gillmor outlines the three most important new realities for journalists working in an Internet age: news consumers attention span are growing ever shorter, “tap[ping] the network” (8) can be a powerful tool for journalists, and the idea that “my readers know more than I do,” (17).

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