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 […]

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Briggs Introduction

Posted by jsouthee on 9th February 2011

ESSENTIALLY WHAT I TOOK from the introduction of Mark Briggs’ Journalism Next was that journalism is not dying, it is evolving. The contemporary evolution of journalism as described in Briggs’ book is comparable to a wild fire: Fire comes with all of its destruction wiping out the old life, in this case newspapers, but what results is new healthier life, or online journalism. What the new wave of journalism delivers is innovation that old media does not. Before the newspapers were challenged by new media they fell into a habit of serving their benefactors and not their readers, but today journalists are closer than ever to their readers and there is more competition to please them. Briggs also points out online journalism is much more eco-friendly.

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Media Pyramid

Posted by jsouthee on 25th January 2011

My assignment was to create a “media pyramid” which is similar to a food pyramid. Just like a food pyramid I have the media I consume the most at the bottom (The Washington Post, CNN, Facebook, and Masonlive)  and the media I consume the least at the top (Twitter). NOTE:  My media pyramid has since changed; I had just started a Twitter account when I made this pyramid and I use Twitter quite frequently now. I would say The Economist would be at the top of the pyramid now.

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