Kanye, how could you be so heartless?

So I am positive almost everyone knows about what Kanye West did to Taylor Swift at the Video Music Awards last night. Poor Taylor, it was her first award and she got interrupted in such a disrespectful way. Boo hoo, a country singer's video won the award for Best Female Video instead of someone in the Hip Hop genre. Music is music, no matter if its country, hip hop, rock, or pop. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but Kanye definitely went way too far by going on stage in the middle of her acceptance speech and saying that Beyonce deserved the award. It would not be a big issue if he said this after the show, but seriously, what was he thinking? Snatching the mic from her in the middle of her speech? That was one of the most disrespect things I have ever seen. 

By Kevin Phu

Interactive Journalism

I'm taking this class to fill my 3rd period class slot. I either had study 3rd and Photography 1 first, which I've had the pleasure of being a part of twice, or I get to sleep later and take this 3rd. After hearing about it was when I decided this would actually be a pretty interesting course.

Why Interactive Journalism Is Important To Me

I wanted to take interactive journalism because I want to do sports reporting. I thought that this would be a good help for sports writing because I could write for espn and post it on there website and have my own blog.

Interactive Journalism First Blog

Interactive Journalism is......
Interactive journalism is a new type of journalism that allows consumers to directly contribute to the story. Through Web 2.0 technology, reporters can develop a conversation with the audience (Wikipedia 2009-Inactive Journalism)

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This picture is an example of a typical interactive journalism class...like the one I am in now!



This is an very informative video about what the field is all about. It is changing world and journalism reflects that. As a teacher I am very inspired to learn more about new technologies and communication.

Interactive Journalism is.....

..... the ability to contribute your own thoughts and concepts to a story. Other than conversations, videos and pictures can be added to the information that is written so it can be appealing to the audience. Readers may be able to add corrections and further information to the story. I chose to take interactive journalism because I love technology and reading about major news, and a future career that I have in mind is becoming a news reporter. I think it's important for these major news stories to be reported to the general public, so what better way to do that than by blogging. This course will give me a sense of what the journalism world is like.

This picture gives a sense of what interactive journalism is, constructing stories and then sharing them on the web.

Interactive Journalism... What is it?

Interactive journalism is a new kind of journalism that lets consumers directly contribute to the story. By using new technology reporters have conversations or "interact" with the audience. Interactive journalism has developed as an effort to get the audiences attention. The audience then can become the producer and/or editor of the news. Below is a link to a man named Sandeep Junnarkar, a professor of interactive journalism, talking about how the journalism world is changing and where interactive journalism can take you in life.

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What is Interactive journalism ?

Interactive journalism is a new form of journalism.  It allows the consumers to interact.  A common way of interacting is commenting on blogs or videos.  Newspapers  and magazines have been an important way to spread news but are not very interactive.  With the Internet and TV interactive journalism has become more popular.  Some newspapers are based mostly on the internet now.  This allows consumers easily access updated news for free.  Also consumers can comment on the articles.  This lets reporters see there audiences opinion and thoughts.  Videos also can give a lot of information.  With You tube and other websites videos are becoming more popular.   The picture above shows students learning interactive journalism.  I want to learn more about interactive journalism because it is interesting and is become an important form of journalism.

Here is a video about how journalism is changing