Lucas Grindley points to a Rob Curley interview with an Italian news organization. Curley’s prescriptions for newspapers are something you should look at. It’s nothing really “new,” but it’s a direction you should be exploring through the lens of college media. Some of these are natural strengths for college news orgs – hyperlocal content, for instance. Others will require some additional work. Grindley does us the favor of providing the executive summary: #

• Own breaking news
• Hyper-local content
• Embrace databases
• Multimedia
• Evergreen content
• Make sure your content can work on any device imaginable
• Make sure your newspaper isn’t a monologue, but a dialogue with you audience

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