#IfTheyGunnedMeDown was a successful movement that went viral after starting on Twitter and making it’s way through The New York Times, Washington Post, Time Inc., and other popular news outlets. The hashtag was in response to how the media portrayed Michael Brown, an 18 year old African-American male who was shot by police in Missouri. […]
Read more "#IfTheyGunnedMeDown"Anything can be news, but not everything is technically newsworthy. There are good stories, and then there are GOOD stories. As media consumers, we search for the GOOD and weed out the rest through identifying what makes a story something we identify with. How stories are told can be even more important than what a story […]
Read more "Finding “Greatness” in Storytelling"With the increasing amount of information, news stories, and social media posts spewing out these days in milliseconds, finding a “good” story may seem physically impossible. For me, a college student used to reading hundreds of stories throughout my career at Syracuse, stories seem to all mesh together in my memory unless they have some […]
Read more "Elements of a Good Story in an Over-Cluttered Story World"Have you ever thought to yourself what exactly makes a good story? What makes a story stand out from the others? Well, I’m here to share what I believe makes a great story. I believe no matter what the story is, whether it’s about a girl saving a cat from a tree, it can be told […]
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