Youtube News Channels

I know I already posted about this topic but I think, that like I did with news websites, I should post a list of good youtube news sources. Each of these also provide links to other channels in partnership with the ones posted. ABCNews Source Fed What's Trending wgn CNN Of course these are...

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Quiet: The Power of Introverts - Ep 1

Yet another video I found about intoverts and extroverts, this topic really fascinates me. I like that this one goes into more detail about the types of introverts (shy versus calm), and adresses the issue of introverts acting like extroverts in order to fit in bett...

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Scholarships?

After hearing about someone in this class who was looking into scholarships regarding their topic I decided to see what I could find regarding journalism. There are tons of opprotunities availible but the majority (all) of them are spscifically for upperclassmen, and college students. I have found a couple that could be related to me but Im not sure if much will come out of it. Nevertheless I am looking more into it and maybe, if im lucky, something good will...

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Writing Journalism

An article I read by The Guardian has helped me quite a bit in my pursuit to begin writing quality journalism. The biggest aspects that I took away from this article are that sucessful journalists need to be cunning, entertaining, and oftentimes able to throw out their inhibitions in order to get the good information on a topic. Articles are written very quickly and need to be very good in order to even make it into publications. If a journalist...

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Youtube Journalism

Youtube is a budding hub for journalism channels are popping up covering an extremely wide variety of news topics. This type of user-generated content is really refreshing in the modern age. Not only can the news be spread faster than ever before, youtube journalism is completely free and even presents the opprotunity for the creators to earn money based on their fanbase. Some of my favorite channels that produce this content are: SourceFed The Phillip...

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Current Project Status

I havent been very acttive in this blog lately because of the time needed on my latest project. This blog needs to become a tad more active so I plan to post something at least once a week. To catch you up from last time. I have finished If It Bleeds It Leads, it got a bit repititive towards the end but it was a good book and I'm glad to have read it because it will also be able to help me in my english paper which involves propaganda. The information, and...

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Love and Hate Chapter Two

Below is my latest post to my group blog. Honestly I think this edition is rather sub-par but I plan on working on different journalistic writing techniques to prevent this.  Hate is a powerful emotion.  Election season brings out the most hate, and anger in people than any other time. Opposing beliefs bring can bring out the worst in people. In the digital age Facebook, Twitter, and other social medias provide a platform for political...

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New Project Alert!!

I have been working on a new project regarding assesment literacy in my gifted class....here is our progress thus far. For updates look on our new blog.Task/Project StatementWe plan to implement a program which will allow students to meet with a teacher after tests or quizzes. In this meeting they will discuss what the student is struggling with and how the student can work to improve on these areas. Assignment(s) will be given to practice these techniques...

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