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12 Responses to “College newspapers doing video”

1. Howard Marshall Says:
   September 9th, 2007 at 8:35 pm

   The GW Hatchet just started doing video in June, and they’ve been updating regularly (goal is at least one video and one podcast per week.) This also corresponds to a completely redesigned webpage which places multimedia at the top, to the right of the masthead. There is also embedded video in the center of the homepage. www.gwhatchet.com. Check us out and let us know what you all think. I only manage the corporation, I don’t serve an advisory role, so any help you can give is appreciated. I’d love some feedback I can give to our new multimedia editor.

2. Chris Says:
   September 9th, 2007 at 9:25 pm

   “was doing a lot of video, but can’t locate videos in the new CP video player”

   That’s why we don’t use it. It gives priority to national/AP video, with local buried somewhere. Instead, we use Brightcove and work it into our CP-based site.

3. Meranda Says:
   September 10th, 2007 at 9:52 am

   Kent State’s Daily Kent Stater has a growing collection of video stories: http://www.kentnewsnet.com/multimedia1/

4. Nick Brennan Says:
   September 10th, 2007 at 9:30 pm

   Washington Square News, NYU’s daily paper, started doing video in January. Check out www.nyunews.com/wsnmedia/ for the beta version of our multimedia site (it’s missing a loading screen so give it a second while it loads).

   I’m the multimedia editor and we’re expanding our content right now so I’d love to hear everybody’s thoughts — shoot me an email at media@nyunews.com

5. Cade Says:
   September 10th, 2007 at 9:33 pm

   Brian, don’t forget about the Optimist at Abilene Christian University. We’re in our third year of producing news videos with our own video staff. We started with a home-grown MySQL/PHP database serving 2-3 vids a week Two years later it died a horrible death. We’re currently publishing at http://www.youtube.com/acuvideo while searching for a CMS solution that best meets our needs. I’ll let you know how that turns out.

   Cade White
   Director of Photojournalism
   Abilene Christian University

6. Harsh Says:
   September 11th, 2007 at 1:51 pm

   Brian,

   “was doing a lot of video, but can’t locate videos in the new CP video player”

   We’re just getting back to doing the video, had some difficulties getting things started for the new semester.

   As far as the new CP Video Player is concerned, it does our campus content on the front page, although I don’t know how their algorithm does it but its really random. Some days you’ll see it on the front page in the video box everytime and some days you’ll only the AP/National videos.

   To get to our campus content go to arbiteronline.com/videos and click the campus news.

   -Harsh
   Online Manager, The Arbiter

7. Chris Carlton Says:
   September 11th, 2007 at 3:34 pm

   Brain, please add The Seahawk (http://www.theseahawk.org) to the list of college newspapers who are doing video. I can’t vouch for the “good” part either but it is a learning process and I am sure there will be improvement with every production we put together.

   Thank you much!

   Chris Carlton
   Editor-in-Chief
   The Seahawk

   FYI: We are hosting our video’s on our FTP, full frame aspect ratio and linking via html. Look for consistent video news packages beginning mid-September as we are recruiting and training qualified staff.

8. Christina Drain Says:
   September 12th, 2007 at 9:12 pm

   The Corsair at Pensacola Junior College is beginning to do video. We have a couple of pieces in the video player on our CP site but we’re not happy with the quality yet. Still learning how to compress it, but hopefully Premiere Pro CS3 will help.

   Several more stories are in the editing stage, so stay tuned.

   www.ecorsair.com

   Christina Drain
   Adviser, The Corsair

9. Whitney Rhodes Says:
   September 12th, 2007 at 11:17 pm

   Broadside Online (GMU’s student paper) features 2-3 videos per week. Might want to check it out here, www.broadsideonline.com

   Thanks,

   Whitney Rhodes
   Online Managing Editor
   Broadside Online

10. Joe Barrentine Says:
    September 13th, 2007 at 5:29 pm

    The Daily Evergreen at Washington State University has been doing some video on and off for 18 months or so.

    http://www.dailyevergreen.com/multimedia/

11. Nicole Norfleet Says:
    September 19th, 2007 at 8:46 pm

    Bryan:

    Thanks for including The Daily Tar Heel web site in your list. We just started working on multimedia projects last semester so it’s great to know that people have taken notice of our work. Please feel free to drop me a line at nnorflee@email.unc.edu or contact our multimedia editor, Timothy Reese, at tsprite@email.unc.edu with any comments on how we can improve. Thanks again.

    Best,

    Nicole
    Online Editor
    The Daily Tar Heel

12. Scott Richey Says:
    September 26th, 2007 at 12:31 pm

    Bryan:

    We may have only posted three videos, but it’s a start! More to come for sure.

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