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Journalism Next: Intro We Are All Web Workers Now Cindy Royal, Ph.D Assistant Professor Texas State University School of Journalism and Mass Communication [email protected] www.cindyroyal.com www.onthatnote.com tech.cindyroyal.net twitter.com/cindyroyal facebook.com/cindyroyal Why study journalism? • Changing field; technology has caused massive disruption • We are all consumers of journalism • Central to democracy and First Amendment • Journalism Next lays out tools and techniques for all fields Newspapers are dying? • The field of journalism has always experienced change • Shifting to more news organizations; smaller, rather than a few, large ones • New job titles, roles, responsibilities • Reinvention is key A good time to go into journalism • Journalism has a bright future • This future is in your hands • Journalism will be better than it was before We Are All Web Workers Now • The days of turning over digital duties to a team of super geeks are gone • Need an understanding of tech terms and processes • Requires a commitment to continuous learning; we are in a state of constant change • Innovation is key! Tech terms and concepts • • • • • • • • Bits and Bytes Difference between Internet and Web Web server URL Domain name Browsers RSS FTP Web Design Basics HTML <html> <head><title>My 1st Web Site</title></head> <body> <h1>Welcome to my site</h1> <p>This is my first Web site</p> </body> <html> Web Design Basics CSS – Cascading Stylesheets • Adds design to HTML structure • Separates design and structure h1 { color: #69887d; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; } XML – tag items so RSS feeds can process