Digital Eye

A graduate from GMU and a comm major, BJ Koubaroulis has been named twice as Alumnus of the year. As a journalist, most often you can expect you’ll start from the bottom, which is what Koubaroulis said is an experience valuable to a developing journalist. After realizing he wasn’t cut to being a super-star journalist, […]

With 19 years exploring the digital world, Mark Potts was a fountain of knowledge for our online journalism class. Wikipedia is one digital source Potts opened with, explaining that, although it isn’t seen as your typical source for news, it is in fact a very reliable and informative source.  He stressed that it may not […]

In a Skype conversation, Kevin Anderson spoke to the class from Doha, Qatar.  The social media over in this region has become important to disseminating all of the tumultuous current events, and Anderson explained how social media has helped. Anderson works for Al Jazeera English, or AJE, and is looking forward to starting a new […]

Always be curious. With over 30 years in the journalism field, Steve Buttry offered this vital message, along with many others to the online journalism class. Looking at various audio and video clips, along with exploring the various platforms, Buttry shared an important lesson in the value of multi-platform media. 13 seconds in August shows […]

Working as a group on the Local Music project has offered me the opportunity to explor several of the many processes that journalists work through. From conducting interviews and physically searching for information to doing online research, the initial tasks involved in the project are numerous. Something that I think separates our Local Music group […]

George Allen, a former United States Senator and former Governor of Virginia, joined students participating from the George Mason University Video Studio along with Steve Scully, the political editor for the C-SPAN networks, and students from the University of Denver. The distance learning course, which is produced by C-SPAN, is a unique opportunity for students […]

Jon DeNunzio came in to our Online Journalism class, discussing the different ways and importance of integrating social media into journalism. DeNunzio made the decision back in 2006 to pick up digital skills for his news coverage and editing, which helped him both grow in his career and secure his job with the Washington Post. […]