NeighborsGo: Apples and Oranges

NeighborsGo.com is not a horrible disgrace of a website.  I think it is ideas like these that may not necessarily be the future of journalism, but are definitely stepping stones in shaping what journalism will eventually become.  I commend Greg for taking a chance on something that is new and exciting.  I don’t think that Greg was fully expecting the journalistic grilling our Online Journalism class put him through today, but I don’t think he should let it bother him.  Sites like NeighborsGo.com are experiments in this new age of news through social networking.  Society has to determine the difference between sites like NeighborsGo and actual Journalism.  NeighborsGo.com is a community website.  Newspapers are definitely going by the wayside and sites like this are the natural successors.  If we look at NeighborsGo as a representation of the communities that it supports instead of an unbiased news conglomerate like USA Today or CNN, everything will be fine.  We have to let apples be apples and oranges be oranges.  We can’t criticize the apple for not being perfectly round, because it is not meant to be.  It’s an APPLE!  Leave the apple alone.

ntTV Nightly News Slide Show

In addition to anchoring the Wednesday night edition of ntTV Nightly News, this semester I helped produce the Monday night edition.  So last Monday I photographed the process involved in putting live news on the air.  Click HERE to see the slide show.