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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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Articles:

What if there were an eBay for news?
Berkeley j-school student Sindya Bhanoo discusses the creation of a new online exchange for professional journalism. - February 5, 2008

Newspapers use YouTube video previews to attract readers
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. - January 24, 2008

Writing to the beat of their hearts
A new collection of essays by teenage girls might teach something about the next generation of journalism. - January 15, 2008

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

Q&A: Topix CEO Chris Tolles on adding user comments to 61 newspaper sites
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. - November 29, 2007

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

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

Painting with the palette of the Web: a pointillistic approach to storytelling
Former multimedia war correspondent and Yahoo! newsman Kevin Sites talks about how online media pick up where traditional media leaves off. - November 2, 2007

To rally an online community, start with controversy
Philippa Stevenson, New Zealand's doyenne of agricultural reporting, stirs up Kiwi farmers with her blog on snake oil fertilizers, gaseous sheep and global warming. - October 30, 2007

New RSS aggregator maps the European news landscape
Imooty.eu is the first news aggregator to focus exclusively on Europe. Readers can navigate English and local language papers and blogs by country and by topic. - October 24, 2007

Can science blogs save science journalism?
A panel of journalists and scientists examines the challenges that media faces in reporting on science. What solutions can burgeoning online science communities offer? - October 10, 2007

Is Facebook the next frontier for online news?
Major newspapers and indie start-ups are building applications to reach the social network's audience. A new $10 million fund for developers should encourage more. - October 8, 2007

Personality, charity help drive participation on niche media websites
Online journalism pioneer and long-time Editor & Publisher columnist Steve Outing deploys a new strategy at his start-up: selling the platform behind their successful social networking sites - October 1, 2007