Martin Luther King's Assassination

Civil Rights activist, Martin Luther King Jr. was killed Monday evening, while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. King was pronounced dead before he arrived to the hospital. The bullet went through his cheek, traveled down his spine, before lodging his shoulder. The impact of the bullet killed him instantly. His assassin has not been found, but if anyone has any information please contact your local police.

Multimedia

• Show a slide show of all of King's greatest moments
• Video of King being shot
• Time line of King's life and his contributions
• Live video interviews of the people who accompanied him during the shooting
• A message board, so that others can write their feelings about the shooting

Other information provided by me

• Interviews of his family and their reactions
• Interviews of anyone who was with King or at the scene of the crime
• Information from the police
• Information on any of the accused killers

Magazine Story

I would choose to pitch a multimedia story to ebonyjet magazine about eating healthy over the holidays. As we all know African-Americans are more at risk for developing high-blood pressure and diabetes. This story will definitely help the website out by providing healthy eating tips and by giving the website a mini face lift, because it lacks multimedia attention.

Title: Keeping it Real Over the Holidays

• Putting up recipes of healthy Holiday meals that still taste good
• Still Pictures of the different recipes
• Video blogs of celebrities talking about the importance of eating healthy, even during the holidays
• A diagram explaining the causes of high-blood pressure and diabetes
• A poll asking how many people will give at least one of the recipes a try
• Message Board that others can use for support, telling others what they liked about the recipes, and a way that other healthy cooks can exchange recipes

Made Better.....

I use facebook and myspace almost everyday. The one thing they could change would be nothing to me. I like both of them alot and I find it hard to think of a way they could change. I like facebook more than myspace, just becuase I feel more safe on facebook and can find friends from my high school and UT. I guess one thing myspace can fix(but probably isn't possible) is a way to get rid of those perverts that get on myspace and stalk you with messages. This really scares me. I have friends who have gotten off of myspace just for that reason. So overally that's the only problem I have with myspace.

As far as linked in and twitter, I don't use either one of these sites. I have only used twitter once when it was for an in class assignment and this site was really a waste of my time. I don't need a site where people tell me what they are eating and when they are using the bathroom. That's just creepy, LOL. I also noticed on twitter that many of the users use celebrities names with that celebs picture. You have to be really bored with your life to become involved with this. I really don't know what else to say about these sites, but I wont be joining anytime soon.

I like that the internet is finally offering a fun way to stay in touch with friends and find new ones if we are careful. Without facebook and myspace, I think my life would be really boring. Now that I have both of these sites, I don't know what I would do without them. So all I can say is facebook and myspace continue to do what you do.

Do you feel like you're being watched

My meeting with Peggy

My meeting with Peggy was outstanding!!! I was very glad to actually have someone ask me my opinion about the class and ask me if anything could be done differently. Since I have started journalism, I have always had teachers that made me feel bad about my writing to the point of where I wanted to give up. Not with Peggy, she actually told me some of the great things that I do in this class and made me feel my journey is worthwhile. I may not be much of a talker, but with the 10-15 minutes I spent on the phone with Peggy it changed how I feel about my writing.

I believe that Peggy does have a great impact on the class. She gives us pointers on what she does in her journalism experiences and she gives great power point presentations. I think it is great to have two teachers that are both able to give us all great advice on journalism. I also think it is really cool to have a teacher that has to be reached online. I like the new technologies.

I have learned this semester that journalism is not always about hard core news stories. I know that most stories are, but I like that journalist now have the choices of blogging, online journalism, or print. I also learned that I like to blog. It lets me relax and write in a free form way. I like that the online journalism class lets you see all sides of journalism and not just from a print perspective. It makes the class fun to write on events that we actually enjoy. I'm glad to have this experience and I will always cherish it.

From what I have seen on the syllabus I think that everything we have gone over and will go over is everything that I am interested in. If there was any assignment I would like to do again it would be the review. I had fun writing the review. That might be something I could do for a living one day.

On the first day of class, I was very nervous about online journalism, because I thought we would be making websites and putting news stories on them every class. I'm glad that my vision wasn't what the class was about. I have enjoyed my time with this class and I will be sad when it is over. I will remember all the things that I liked about the class and use them for my advantage.