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Comment on Clips by Hello from The Anniston Star crime beat « Cameron Steele, Journalist

Hello from The Anniston Star crime beat « Cameron Steele, Journalist — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:00:26 +0000

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Comment on Destined for the Red Carpet? by Caitlin and Kyle

Caitlin and Kyle — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 04:15:00 +0000

cameron this video is almost as riveting as the geology we are studying right now. great work.

Comment on Destined for the Red Carpet? by Becky

Becky — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:59:32 +0000

This is so funny, good luck with MTV.

Comment on Anchoring by uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:14:38 +0000

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Comment on What do you think: Print Newspapers by Austin Light

Austin Light — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:02:48 +0000

Hey Cameron, great stuff here.

I don’t think print is going anywhere, but I do think it is changing. To me, a print pub should include in-depth local stories and investigative reporting and longer news features, while the online portion should have the up-to-the-minute news, links to other articles, sites or publications, and outlets for readers to discuss the stories.

Another good question would be should students still be majoring or heavily studying print journalism? If the print industry is going to change, it has to start happening with the new journalists. That means courses in website design/maintenance, blogging, social media, even a bit of public relations.

Anyways, those are just my thoughts…I gotta get back to working on a story, for print.

Comment on Saving the best for later by Observation makes inspiration « Cameron Steele, Journalist

Observation makes inspiration « Cameron Steele, Journalist — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:18:23 +0000

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Comment on Journalism junkies turned professional by beckybratu

beckybratu — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:46:30 +0000

*raises glass* Here’s to Virginia Voice! May it grow louder every day.

Comment on Saving the best for later by Minimum Failure

Minimum Failure — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:03:24 +0000

For 90% of the time, whenever I read an article in a newspaper, I read the last paragraph first. It was a habit I developed unconsciously, and I didn’t think about it until someone pointed it out to me. I see the last paragraph, traditionally, as this little shelter where the reporter finally gets to be seen, to really tell us what the story is about and why it’s important and interesting.

Also, people want the facts and want them quickly. They don’t want to sift through the soil to find the roots of the flowers.

The patience you allow stories is not shared with the masses, no matter how entertaining you keep the writing.

Comment on Business beat reflections by Minimum Failure

Minimum Failure — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:33:01 +0000

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Comment on Context, context, context! by steelecs

steelecs — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:44:00 +0000

Thanks for the comment.
I think you’ve nailed what I was trying to say, but more eloquently than I put it.
As a journalist, I feel that I am more than a mere transcriber or synthesizer of events.
By providing the immediate context with which an event happens, information that shows how that event fits into the audience’s world and information that conveys how the event’s meaning might change/fit in into the future, I think that a reporter gives a reader a more meaningful story, something that doesn’t lose significance as headlines refresh themselves.
You can find a personal example of where I’ve tried to do this in the Saturday business section of Charlotte Observer. (Tomorrow)

Comment on Context, context, context! by emculturate

emculturate — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:24:56 +0000

I love your premise here. Would be interested in understanding what “context” means to you in particular and to journalism generally.

I can envision three different contexts at work in writing any particular story. First, there’s the context of the participants whose story the journalist tries to capture. Second there’s the context of the audience to whom the journalist wants to tell the story. Finally, there’s the context formed by the journalist themselves – I’d call this a “bridging context” because it must form a bridge between the ideas and mileau of the first context to those of the second.

In other words, the translation and exposition of the first context into terminology and description of the second has to occur in a third where both of the other two can be made to share equivalent ideas.

If I may read into what you say, what you try to do is to project ahead into a possible future context, leaving enough information in the body of your article in the hopes that someone in that future state will still grasp what you reported. And in particular, it sounds like you try to add enough markers so that a reader can figure out “why this is/was important” as well as “why should you trust this report”.

I’m going to follow that link now… thanks for the pointer!