Jennifer Southee

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    • onMason Round-Up – 4-30-12 April 30, 2012
      Here’s a selection of interesting posts from across onMason. “Federman Beats Cancer” by Gregory Connolly Gregory Connolly’s article takes a highly sympathetic and insightful look at Jacob Federman, a junior sports management major at George Mason who has twice beaten Hodgkin’s lymphoma. After first beating the cancer in high school, he experienced a relapse as a freshman at Mason, […]
    • onMason Round-Up – 4-23-12 April 23, 2012
      Let’s check out some of the most interesting posts from last week throughout onMason. “An interview with Mason Dining’s Dietitian Lois Durant” by Nicole Merrilees This interview with Lois Durant provides insight to the life and hard work of a Mason employee who likely often goes unrecognized for her role in maintaining the high quality of life students […]
    • onMason Round-Up – 4-10-12 April 10, 2012
      In the new onMason round-up we take a look at some of the most interesting posts throughout onMason. “Tragedy and Twitter” by Karina Schulthesis This is an account of how social network sites like Twitter have changed the way people respond to and deal with school shootings. In order to make her article more effective, Karina begins with an […]

Briggs Review 2: The Essence of Blogging

Posted by jsouthee on February 10, 2011

I DIDN’T KNOW too much about blogs except that they seemed like personal diaries which I didn’t see as having much of a place in journalism. After reading the second chapter of Briggs’ book, however, I realized that blogs are opened for doing anything and everything you want with them (depending on the context of course) and they are a resourceful tool when in comes to interacting with readers; after all you can’t make good news if you don’t know what your audience wants to hear. I would like to find an audience for myself as well because as a journalist I need feedback to know whether my writing is captivating and informative enough. Through this blog I hope to find my “blogging voice,” which Briggs said you find after time with practice. The book also had me explore different blogs to find out for myself the diversity among them. Not surprisingly I found the number one blog as ranked by Technorati.com, The Huffington Post, to be my favorite. In fact I was delayed in making this blog post because I got so caught up reading Huffington Post articles!

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