This Mass Comm Week, I enjoyed Trei Brundrett’s discussion the most about the importance of coding and building communities. Brundrett, who is Chief Product Officer at Vox, doesn’t come from a coding background and in fact got a degree in astronomy. The
Read All About It: Google News’ Stacie Chan’s Big Move
As a Stanford undergraduate, Google News’ Stacie Chan told Texas State students during this year’s Mass Comm Week that she dreamed of becoming a broadcast journalist for the Lakers. But as Chan completed multimedia assignments to satisfy requirements for her communications
Eminem killed it at ACL
Eminem was the highlight for many people at Austin City Limits. Many Concert goers expressed their love of Eminem on Twitter, calling him a … #RapGod. Some people on Twitter even sympathized for other artists, who performed to empty crowds,
Inside of Google News With Stacie Chan
On October 22, the third day of Mass Comm Week, guest speaker Stacie Chan appeared to discuss her story on how she became the Community Manager for Google News. After graduating from Stanford with a master’s degree in journalism, Stacie
The ‘Chorus’ Line: Vox Media’s Trei Brundrett
By Jordan Gass-Poore’ The mastermind behind Vox Media’s new platform “Chorus,” which has been touted as the future of content management, Trei Brundrett, discussed the company’s evolution during Texas State’s Mass Communication Week. “Chorus is not a CMS.” — Trei
The Artists of #ACL (+GitHub)
w5748.net/tweetmap/ The above was an exercise in pulling down Tweets with Python and mapping that information with the Google Maps API. The process involved coding, troubleshooting, and of course, visualizing data on the web. Of all the things I learned from this
Journalist 2.0
Stacie Chan (@staciechan) was on campus Wednesday to speak as part of Texas State’s Mass Communication Week. In a presentation to students Chan talked about her path to her current career at Google News, and what it was like working for
Trei Brundrett – Mass Communication Week 2014
As part of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Texas State University, every year they organize and dedicate a week for students to connect with professionals to interact and discuss the world in mass communication. This is a
On ‘New Engagement’
At a presentation yesterday part of Texas State’s Mass Communication Week, Trei Brundrett (@clockwerks) of Vox Media spoke to students on a wide variety of topics related to journalism. Although his content touched-on material as diverse as platform development, the creative process, and even ethics in
The Drop in Album Sales
The chart I made was to show how the sale of albums in the U.S. has been dropping for quite some time now. I was able to find data on physical album sales from 2008-2012 in the United