Mobile and Social Media Journalism

And here is how we will wrap up the semester:

Here are some of the tasks you need to complete during our 15th week.

Journalists from the Richmond-Times Dispatch spoke to the iPadJournos on Tuesday morning about the changes the newspaper has undergone this past year since billionaire investor Warren Buffett took over and ab out the important role social media is playing in the news business today.

The iPadjournos visited WTVR-CBS6 (@CBS6) on West Broad Street on Thursday for a tour of the studio with Scott Wise (@Scott_Wise), Director of Interactive Media. The tour started off with Wise telling the us about the station’s setup and showing.

Welcome back from Spring Break! Here are some of the tasks you need to complete during our ninth week.

Nathan Hughes (@rvabusiness), co-founder of the Social Media Club Richmond (RVA), visited our iPadJournos class on Thursday to discuss the upcoming networking event of the club. “Single and Social” will take place on place on Feb. 21 at the Barksdale Theater. By Dana Carlson (@anecdotesofdana)

Lorenzo Hall (@LorenzoHall), anchor and reporter for CBS 6, came to class yesterday to speak about reporting and social media. He had a very unique story to tell about how he got involved in journalism. As children, he would play in a burnt down car in a rough neighborhood near his grandparent’s house after school. [...]

Tom Grasty (@TomGrasty), winner of a 2010 Knight News Challenge Grant and founder of the online video editing platform Stroome, skyped with the iPadJournos last Thursday (see Grasty’s tips here). Grasty is consulting with our class this semester through a Knight Bridge Grant from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. He will [...]

Here are some of the tasks you need to complete during our fourth week.

Yesterday, our class skyped with Natalie Jennings (@ngjennings), the social media manager of the Washington Post’s PostPolitics.com. Jennings spoke to us about the role of social media in the world of political journalism. By Shelby Mertens (@Shelby_Mertens)