Source:
http://earthquakes-today.info/2010/09/2012-disaster-scenarios-what-are-the-terrible-events-we-must-prepare-to-survive/
Topic:
2012 Disaster Scenarios? What Are The Terrible Events We Must Prepare To Survive?
Author:
Earth
This blogger who named Earth gives the readers a vision of nine most possible terrible events which may bring the Doomsday.
In this article, unlike serious but boring hard news, the author doesn’t use official statistics and quotes to illustrate and convince the readers. Instead, he/she just uses the humour and less-formal tongue to show nine possible cataclysmic events that may result in the end of human. But by doing so, I can still notice the professional geography knowledge of the blogger behind this interesting piece. Looking through his/her blog, I find the whole blog generally focus on the environmental issues and especially on the geography phenomenon like earthquakes.
Since the blog was born as a popular tool to show personal experiences and opinions. While the blogosphere has been developed, there has been increased specialization. Many bloggers start to use blogs to show their professional knowledge and provide useful information to the public, just like this blogger Earth. Today, when we Google some questions, we may probably find the answers from some blogs instead of traditional websites.
When reading this blog I am not just interest in the articles. The blogger also shares a very interesting website plug-in script with the readers, the USGS earthquake monitor. Using this plug-in script we can easily get to know the most recent terrible earthquake globally, and we can easily get its code and put it on our own blog.
If you care about the global earthquake as well, you can get the USGS earthquake monitor here and put it on your blog.
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2010/08/07
Interview gives readers the direct story
Source:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103790515
Topic:
Grieving Chinese Family Quells Memories to Heal
Author:
Melissa Block
The terrible earthquake happened in the Sichuan province of China in 2008 shocked the world. As an international journalist, Melissa Block has reported this disaster at that time. This article is one of her follow-up articles.
In the earthquake, a young couple lost their two-year old son and their parents.Melissa Block has interviewed Wang Dan, the couple’s brother. This article reports how their family goes through the next year. The whole article is based on interview, including seven questions and answers. Melissa Block firstly asks Wang about what the couple did in last year. Then, the author emphasizes the emotion of the couple after the loss of their closest relatives.
When comparing with Melissa Block’s other articles, which reports the unfortunate family last year, she no longer writes the story from her point of view. Instead, she uses interview to let the person who is involved into this disaster to talk his own story. Without her own description and judgment, her just let the victims talk so the readers can touch their feelings directly.
As a journalist, the way to tell the story is very important. This report is a good example. The journalist chooses the best way to describe this sad family’s story by giving the vision of one of the involvers. It is like photography. A good photo is a photo can talk by itself. A good journalist aims to tell the readers all the facts. Although Melissa Block doesn’t have many words in this article, we can see her wisdom by how she chooses and organizes the questions. Interview gives readers the direct story .
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103790515
Topic:
Grieving Chinese Family Quells Memories to Heal
Author:
Melissa Block
The terrible earthquake happened in the Sichuan province of China in 2008 shocked the world. As an international journalist, Melissa Block has reported this disaster at that time. This article is one of her follow-up articles.
In the earthquake, a young couple lost their two-year old son and their parents.Melissa Block has interviewed Wang Dan, the couple’s brother. This article reports how their family goes through the next year. The whole article is based on interview, including seven questions and answers. Melissa Block firstly asks Wang about what the couple did in last year. Then, the author emphasizes the emotion of the couple after the loss of their closest relatives.
When comparing with Melissa Block’s other articles, which reports the unfortunate family last year, she no longer writes the story from her point of view. Instead, she uses interview to let the person who is involved into this disaster to talk his own story. Without her own description and judgment, her just let the victims talk so the readers can touch their feelings directly.
As a journalist, the way to tell the story is very important. This report is a good example. The journalist chooses the best way to describe this sad family’s story by giving the vision of one of the involvers. It is like photography. A good photo is a photo can talk by itself. A good journalist aims to tell the readers all the facts. Although Melissa Block doesn’t have many words in this article, we can see her wisdom by how she chooses and organizes the questions. Interview gives readers the direct story .
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