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Jean Yung

Los Angeles, California

Hi there, I am a Master's student in Print Journalism at USC Annenberg.

After seven sublimely bone-chilling, atom-stopping years in Chicago (as an undergrad at the University of Chicago and a business consultant for Deloitte), I can truly appreciate LA's tedious sunshine!

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These articles are the work of their author, and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of nor an assignment by OJR.

What if there were an eBay for news?

February 5, 2008
Berkeley j-school student Sindya Bhanoo discusses the creation of a new online exchange for professional journalism.

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Newspapers use YouTube video previews to attract readers

January 24, 2008
Online editors at two papers talk about how they put movie-style trailers and a music video on YouTube to promote their papers' special reporting projects.

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Writing to the beat of their hearts

January 15, 2008
A new collection of essays by teenage girls might teach something about the next generation of journalism.

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Get your geek on

December 5, 2007
2007 Online Journalism Award winner LiveScience.com keeps it fresh for the "intellectually curious" set.

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Q&A: Topix CEO Chris Tolles on adding user comments to 61 newspaper sites

November 29, 2007
The Topix chief exec talks to OJR's Jean Yung about making a deal to add talk-back functionality to 61 MediaNews Group newspaper-dot-coms nationwide, plus the economics of Web 2.0 and the "purloined letter" approach to balanced coverage.

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How social media can help shape society

November 12, 2007
OJR speaks with a co-creator of 10Questions.com about how the site is helping empower popular discussion about the U.S. Presidential campaign.

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Ten years of MarketWatch: Biz site celebrates its anniversary

November 5, 2007
Q&A: OJR talks with editor David Callaway about the development of the financial news site... and its owners and deals along the way.

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Painting with the palette of the Web: a pointillistic approach to storytelling

November 2, 2007
Former multimedia war correspondent and Yahoo! newsman Kevin Sites talks about how online media pick up where traditional media leaves off.

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