The things I have learned from Digital news gathering and it’s impact on my career

This is me when i take finals.

In Digital news gathering I learned a lot about technology, journalism and the world. Coming into the class I knew some things and was completely oblivious to others. One thing that i learned that is probably one of the most important for me to know in this field is how to blog and maintain a blog. WordPress is an interesting and useful way for one to express themself and spread news and information to other people. Blogging is emerging as a primary way to report news and is an essential for aspiring journalists. I, being a photojournalist can use this ability quite a bit. blogging could be the foundation of my field. Another thing I learned in this class was how to edit video. I never before knew how to edit video and had never used software like imovie. It was interesting to see all the different things one can do with raw video. Doing things like separating the audio from the video and adding text to a video were completely foreign to me before this class. I now know the skills to make a full length news feature using imovie and how to effectively use a video camera to make a overall good composition. The last thing I learned that was very useful is how to operate a Mac. I have always used a PC for as long as I can remember and was completey clueless as to how to navigate a Mac. After taking this class I now know how to use finder, how to upload video and audio files and how to convert video and audio files to formats that are compadible with things like garageband and imovie.  One of my favorite works I posted on this blog was the top ten hardcore punk bands. I liked this post because it was something that I was truly interested in and had a lot of fun writing. In my opinion and probably in everybody elses as well, is that when you do something that you are interested in and have fun doing, it with come out good. Another reason I liked it is because I got some positive feedback on it from other students.

The Internet and how we can learn from it by networking information

This chart represents the amount of adults that use the internet to share information about health. it is of the 74% of adults who use the internet. This information is from the article, The Social Life of Health Information, 2011. The article is about hoe in this age people use the internet to exchange information and learn about health issues. I chose this set of information because i found it interesting how adults use this relatively new way of spreading information. If my editor assigned me to a story related to this report, it , would most likely be about American healthcare and how people gain knowledge about it. I would interview adults of all difernt social standings and ages. I would incorporate this chart, a map of where most adults use the internet, audio of adults speaking about healthcare and their own health knowledge and video of adults navigating the internet and social networking sites to atain health information.

SFSU students thoughts on the royal wedding coverage

Students at SF State were asked, “What did you think of the media coverage of the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton?” they all seemed to have similar answers, it was bit overdone. The students interviewed in oder were, Kelly Goff, senior; Chris Haire, graduating senior; Caitlin Olson, senior; Thomas Garcia, non-graduating senior; and Kelsey Avers, graduating senior.

Photo credit:it's a foot! on Flickr.com Prince William and Kate Middleton pose at their world famous and iconic wedding

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Sam Harvey’s Passion for Painting

Sam Harvey is an art student who lives, works and goes to school in San Francisco. He grew up in Santa Barbara and came to the city in search of some opportunities and some open minds. He currently studies animation and wants to pursue a career in it eventually. on his free time, he likes painting and drawing on canvases he finds around the city, as well as other platforms, including an old mirror. Painting and doing art is his way of venting and expressing himself. He has been painting since he young and used to mimic the cartoons he saw on TV and the comics he would read during class. Art is his passion and painting is one of the many ways he expresses it.

NPR’s Fresh Air

I’ve listened to five episodes of NPR’s program, Fresh Air. It is  generally between an hour to an hour and features an interviewer speaking with a guest or two that has expertise in a certain subject. In my case the interviewer for most of the episodes was Terry Gross, with one hosted by Dave Davies.  My overall experience of listening to these episodes was very informative and interesting. With the first one that I listened to being about Public schooling in America, I was shocked to hear some of the things that author Dian Ravege said about the schooling system. She had very interesting and on the system and her book about the death of the schooling system seem s to bring up some very insightful subjects that could possibly help shape the future of public schooling. My favorite interview of the five was the one hosted By Dave Davies in which he speaks with the author of the book “Wicked Bugs”. Her name is Amy Stewart. One of the bugs she talks about is the Asian Giant Hornet, a 5cm. long hornet that pillages honey bee colonies and steals the honey. Interesting stuff. After listening to these episodes I definitely plan of listening to more in the future. I was already a fan of NPR and would have it on the radio whenever I would commute to school or work during my time in L.A. when I frequently drove my car. Now That I know about the podcast, It will now be on  daily agenda.  Audio stories are a great way of reporting information mainly, in my opinion, because people like to listen to them in their car.  Commutes and even trips to the store are perfect times to listen. This is a great way to reach the public. The downside of audio stories is, of course, the lack of imagery. Seeing the people and object described could add greatly to the story.