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February 10, 2009 in industry news

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Can’t afford the Adobe creative suite?

February 9, 2009 in online software


The Adobe Creative Suite is an industry standard these days.  Many newsrooms already have their hands on the software, but with the 24 hour news cycle and reporters in the field, how do you access the suite outside the newsroom? Chances are, your staff isn’t going to pay thousands to get Adobe CS on their personal laptops.

There are plenty of low-priced and free browser-based tools that can serve the basic functions of Adobe CS (meaning it doesn’t matter what operating your reporters are running — as long as they have internet access).

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Facebook in real life

February 9, 2009 in fun

This is funny/creepy. Via Eric Zorn and @coloneltribune on Twitter.

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Chat wrap-up: College newspaper collaboration

February 9, 2009 in industry news

Participants in this week’s CollegeJourn chat covered a lot of ground. The following are just a few highlights. Read the full chat log here.

How can journalism students promote collaboration with other campuses, if at all?

This question focuses on the sharing of content and data among colleges locally and nationwide. For example, if textbook prices are outrageous at your school, should you be able to go to a database maintained by other college newspapers and see what kinds of stats they have on textbook prices?

The New York Times and ProPublica are looking into doing something similar through DocumentCloud, which would be a place for reporters to store documents they gather during reporting for other newsrooms to use.

A few opinions offered on taking the concept to a college level:

The coordination should be on back-end stuff, like what CoPress is working on .
-@polarscribe

College titles that exist in the same or nearby regions won’t collaborate. It’s against the culture of college publications.
-@BenLaMothe

Our college paper has very limited budgets for any kind of travel to – the idea of :”sharing” resources especially for sports reporting sounds promising
-@tulsatrends

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The most comprehensive student media online journalism contest evah – 2.0: Submissions begin March 15

February 6, 2009 in contests

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Okay, so we got this a little earlier than I had planned, but here’s the scoop. Beginning MARCH 15, the official CICM College Media Online Journalism Contest 2.0 will be open for business.

The fee for entry will $30 per college media outlet – that includes TV, Radio, Online-only, or Newspaper (am I forgetting anyone?) There is no membership requirement. It’s open to all college media outlets.

Two entries per category per outlet (with one freebie thrown in because we’re nice. :-) ). If you want to enter more, you will pay an additional fee. Deadline for entries is May 15. That means you have two months to get your stuff together! Entries must have been published in conjunction with a college media outlet (read no class projects unless they’ve been published by the campus college media!).

Also, note that there are two additional categories this year: multimedia journalist of the year and webmaster of the year. Rock on! I’ll have a list of judges coming soon as well. Winners will be announced at the beginning of the fall semester.

Details of each category are again presented below the fold:

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What’s up

February 6, 2009 in blogging

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The registration form for the contest is on the way. It will likely be Monday before it is posted. Keep watching this space. In the meantime, a reason for the light posting of late.

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Quote of the Day: Clueless edition

February 5, 2009 in blogging

Related to journalism because someone at the New York Times was actually able to get this guy on record talking like this.

“That is pretty draconian — $500,000 is not a lot of money, particularly if there is no bonus,” said James F. Reda, founder and managing director of James F. Reda & Associates, a compensation consulting firm. “And you know these companies that are in trouble are not going to pay much of an annual dividend.” (emphasis added)

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Pitt News covers Super Bowl riots

February 4, 2009 in Websites

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Not always good news out of a Super Bowl win (and what a win it was!), the Pitt News is doing a great job posting about the riots that occurred after the Steelers won the NFL Championship this weekend. Check out their blog for all the headlines, including some video (including this raw footage) and statements from campus officials.

And I should mention that this is thanks to Alan Smodic via Twitter @alansmodic

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5 things College Publisher never told you

February 4, 2009 in College Publisher

These days, I’ve heard a lot of bad talk about College Publisher (College Media Network). Although the platform is less than ideal, it’s a great place for student newspapers to be– and it is, in fact, where most newspapers are. It doesn’t require the need to know extensive HTML, CSS, PHP or other web languages that are the cause of many headaches in the world.

College Publisher offers a great service and as a starting point, it’s the platform I would recommend to any college newspaper getting its start on the Web. Because you’re working with a system that is proprietary, you’re going to have to work a little harder to get innovative. These are a few tips and notes about getting College Publisher to work the way you want it to.

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OU Daily’s Signing Day package

February 4, 2009 in Websites

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The Oklahoma Daily put together a special page for signing day for high school football players. There’s a map of where the players came from, information about each player, and some youtube clips from various signees. Dane Beavers, senior online editor, was responsible for the package.

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