At this point, the updates are going to be less frequent, but I’m going to again use this post as a pointer to what others are doing in response to the tragedy at Va. Tech. All of our coverage of Va. Tech and the way it has been handled by college media is now in a separate category of the blog (here’s the link). If you have anything to share, e-mail me at scmurley -at- gmail.com. #

• List of confirmed dead and list of confirmed injured.
• The Orion of CSU-Chico sent reporters and a photographer to Va. Tech. Full coverage here.
• Daily Arbiter coverage here, here, and here. PDF of the front page.
• The UTEP Prospector’s (weekly) front page (PDF): UTEP front page
• George Mason’s Broadside sent staffers to the Va. Tech vigil Tuesday night. Coverage here.
• The Daily Tarheel had 5 staffers in Blacksburg this week. Find DT content related to the Va. Tech tragedy here. “For Friday’s paper, we will have our mast in maroon and orange,” said Stacy Wynn.
• Indiana Statesman coverage here, here, here and here. (thanks Marcy Shonk).
• NPR story on the Collegiate Times (via Chris Evans and CMA-Listserv).
• “Liberty has a groups of students heading down tomorrow to give encouragement and aid to the campus. We’re sending a reporter and photographer (yearbook staff) and have taken out our trends/current events spread to be “The Day We All Became Hokies”. It features various logos and emblems from schools all over the country who are reaching out to VT.” – Carrie Dunbar.
• Collegiate Times’ Hokies 4/16 memorial project.
• Recent front pages from college newspapers at collegefrontpages.com.
• Collegiate Times’ Thursday edition PDF
• Roanoke Times video of student journalists.
• Meranda Watling on the images used from the insane gunman’s “multimedia manifesto.”:
  “Now, imagine I’m not me, hardened to a lot of news and a lot of horrible things. Imagine I’m 13, scanning the Web and maybe stopping by the newspaper site for a current events assignment for class. Or, worse, imagine I’m one of the parents, siblings, friends of one of the kids who did die at that gun point. On second thought, I really don’t want to imagine it, because I know seeing those photos would be painful.
  I’m not saying don’t show the public. I would have run the video on my newscast. I would have run a photo on my Web site and in my paper. But the one of the gun pointed directly at the camera is going too far, I think.”

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