This is my seventh blogging portfolio--I feel old--but it is my first blogging portfolio in journalism. It has been a new experience blogging something other than literary analysis. This is basically a compilation of all of the blog entries I've written for News Writing thus far this semester.
Coverage (This is a list of all of the entries I've posted for this class thus far.)
~It's a Page Turner
~Basic Building Blocks at Work
~WTAE News at 6
~Sad But True
~Riot or Picnic?
~It's Worse Than It Seems
~It All Comes Down To Ethics
~News vs. Essay
~Viewpoings
~Unusual Event = News
~Something In Common: Group 1 Reflection
~No One Is Perfect
~Delayed Subject
~The Need To Be Concise
~"Make Meaning Early"
~Not Always Clear Cut
~Morbidly Humorous
~Battle of the Bus Plunges
~Accident Report
~Dealing with the Lead
~Brevity is Key
~So What?
Depth (These are the entries that are more in depth.)
~It's a Page Turner
~Not Always Clear Cut
~Dealing with the Lead
Interaction (These are the entries in which I interact with/acknowledge classmates.)
~Sad But True
~Something In Common: Group 1 Reflection
Discussions (These are the entries that seemed to spark the best discussions.)
~Sad But True
~Unusual Event = News
~No One Is Perfect
Timeliness (These are the entries I posted on time.)
(I wasn't sure what the deadline is for timeliness, so I separated these into two sections: blogs posted 2 days prior and blogs posted 1 day prior to class.)
2 days
~Sad But True
~No One Is Perfect
~"Make Meaning Early"
~Morbidly Humorous
~Battle of the Bus Plunges
1 day
~It's a Page Turner
~Basic Building Blocks at Work
~WTAE news at 6
~Riot or Picnic?
~It's Worse Than It Seems
~It All Comes Down To Ethics
~News vs. Essay
~Viewpoints
~Unusual Event = News
~Not Always Clear Cut
~Accident Report
~Dealing with the Lead
~Brevity is Key
~So What?
Xenoblogging (These are comments I've left on classmates' blogs. They are the comments that are most substantial and/or are the first comment on the page.)
~Josie Rush's blog "I Would Read it on a Plane, I Would Read it in the Rain"
~Matt Henderson's blog "Just the facts, ma'am"
~Angela Palumbo's blog "Good Quotes Can Win Awards"
~Derek Tickles blog "What News is Good News?"
~Josie Rush's blog "The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and . . . Ah!"
Wildcard (This is an extra blog entry that shows how far I've come with blogging.)
~Summer Encounter with the News