Past the Byline

considering journalism in the current climate.


Recent posts
  • The Wild West

    There’s something so magical to me about a platform where you can watch a 5-hour-long documentary on the show Victorious, a video of someone playing Papa Louie games, The Notebook, illegal uploads of Spongebob, a how-to video on retiling your shower and the news. YouTube really is the wild west of the internet… and maybe…

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  • Social Media Journalism is Here… so What’s Next?

    For years now, journalists, scholars and that old guy shouting from his porch have said: “Social media is the next step for journalism.” But the truth is– maybe to our chagrin– that step has already been taken. Social media journalism is no longer ‘what’s to come’… it’s what’s here. It’ll come in and overshadow the…

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