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With circulation numbers declining, many newspapers have looked at ways to gain readership among young people. According to a 2004 report by the Newspaper Association of America, only 53% of all adults in this country read a daily newspaper, down from 81% in 1964. Only 40% of those surveyed between 18 and 24 reported reading a newspaper daily in 2004. Instead, many young people use the Web as a

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• How has your writing changed (hopefully for the better) since the beginning of the course? My writing has changed in that I've begun writing shorter paragraphs. I still need to write more concisely, though. I need to utilize my journalistic writing style when writing for the web. I get carried away with the sense of freedom - no page limitations! I also need to practice more what I preach. I

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Brand BuildingeHarmony.com is geared to an audience of marriage-ready singles who have had little success with other dating techniques. By using this service, the commercials will have you believe, you can find the love of your life much faster than you would by waiting in a bar. In fact, eHarmony claims “more marriages per match than any Online Dating Personals Service.”eHarmony’s brand is so

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Since I am interested in art and have visited galleries in New York, Paris and London, I looked at the websites for the Guggenheim, the Louvre and The National Gallery (in England). Despite the fact that all of these websites promote visual art (or perhaps because of this), they all look surprisingly different. Guggenheim has an entryway where a visitor can choose which site they want to access:

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One emerging issue on the legal horizon for the internet involves a law left over from the Middle Ages. Thanks to sophisticated technology, cybertrespassing (trespassing on the internet) has become an issue and, since the courts have no laws to deal with it, they must draw upon existing, antiquated laws to create a new path. "Trespassing to chattels" is a tort that has survived from the Middle

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Trade Journals• Morton, J. (1998). Protecting the Local Franchise Online. American Journalism Review. 20(3) 60.Morton looks at how newspapers can use their resources for information and their clout in local communities to capitalize on the internet. He uses the Durham Herald-Sun as an example of a newspaper that paired with local organizations and retained its brand name trust. He mentions

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I think semiotic analysis would help us to plan web pages, sites and blogs by helping us to utilize existing signs as a shorthand for concepts that take a long time to explain. And for instances where the writer wants to be persuasive, the use of semiotic analysis can serve to subtley sway audiences, like subliminal messages. In an art class, I learned that certain shapes and lines can evoke

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Edited version:Smithsonian , Feb 2005 v35 i11 p72 Savoring pie townPaul Hendrickson. Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2005 Smithsonian Institution The name alone would make a stomach-growling man wish to get up and go there: Pie Town. And then too, there are the old photographs--those moving gelatin-silver prints, and the equally beautiful ones made in Kodachrome color, six and a half decades ago, at the

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Kansas City Star:Pros:Structure of the home page directs the user’s eye to the information he/she needs. The center text contains headings with links to stories in those categories. There is an obvious hierarchy of information. The left hand side of the page presents navigation tools. The right hand “gutter” contains pure advertisements. No horizontal scrolling is necessary, and all the most

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Here are my results from the Learning Styles Inventory test:Style Scores Visual 6Aural 17 Verbal 17 Physical 12 Logical 9Social 18 Solitary 6I wasn’t surprised by any of the findings. I knew already that I was an aural, verbal, physical and social learner. What’s interesting, however, is that the scores for these elements changed when I took the test on two different days. The test depends on

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This styleguide is a work-in-progress and therefore subject to change. I appreciate any feedback. Basis:The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law will serve as the basis for my online styleguide. While I will make a few changes, I will adhere for the most part to the guidelines in the AP stylebook, because it is the one most journalists use. Since the stylebook was intended to

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I think amazon.com meets many of the criteria in the reading for this module. It has a recognizable template, with a navigation bar along the top, which remains consistent throughout. Once you click on a heading, such as “books”, the color of the bar changes and the tab is highlighted. It reminds me of the tabs on the sides of cookbooks, separating out the different sections. The colors used are

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Here is an article from runnersworld.com. I think it provides a good example of how lists can be used effectively, in its prevention section. For this exercise, I will convert the treatment section into a list as well. Below is the original article. Below that you will find the treatment section, after being doctored (so to speak).Iliotibial Band Syndrome Iliotibial band syndrome is relatively

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One thing I've always had trouble with is writing headlines. I'm not sure I've gotten much better, but this exercised helped me to analyze headlines online and recognize the trouble with them. Here are my suggestions.A. Police seize huge amounts of cash on I-85http://www.mainstreetnews.com/2005/Feb/J0209D.htmlThis makes it sound as though cops are picking up piles of bills on the side of the road

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Despite the fact that the Internet affects nearly everything we do these days, certain institutions have still not reconciled it with their traditional practices. For instance, many newspapers continue to use a typical front-page layout for their home page, many post stories directly to the Internet without altering the text at all and some offer original content on the Web. Some charge for

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Site evaluation I'm going to take a page from Tracy Swartz's book and review the site of the newspaper I used to work for: The Voice Ledger. I suppose it's the opposite of the assignment, because I don't think the site is a particularly good one. I used to place content on the site www.voiceledger.com and I think the system's flaws hindered both the producer and consumer. I have a lot to

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My friend has a theory that what you wanted to do as a child is what you should eventually end up doing. For all those little boys who wanted to play professional baseball, I’m afraid her theory may not prove correct. For me, however, she couldn’t have been more right. It struck me today as I walked across campus at UNC Chapel Hill, on my way to conduct person-on-the-street interviews, that I

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Exercise 1.1 • The only thing to fear is fear itself. • Men are from Mars; women are from Venus. • In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Exercise 1.2 Ambiguous – The professor’s ambiguous answer left the students wondering whether or not they had homework. Ambivalent – I felt ambivalent about his proposition of going to Vegas for the weekend. Healthy – He felt healthy

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Hi there. My name is Robin and I'm a master's student at UNC Chapel Hill. I'm experiencing the blogosphere for the first time and so far I've found it to be a hospitable place. Getting in was easier than going through security at RDU, that's for sure. I haven't met any natives yet, which is good (it will give me more time to brush up on the language). I am taking JOMC 221 for a few reasons. I

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