Dan Riemold, formerly of College Media Matters, is now blogging at College Media Beat, a UWire project. Dan’s focus isn’t changing, just his URL. From his first blog post at the new joint:

Yes, you read that right. The generation supposedly tuned out and turned off by all things real world, serious and especially ink-stained are regularly reading, watching, listening to, interacting with, supporting and starting up more news outlets than ever before, online and in print.

Why?

Because the student press is keenly adapting with its audience, not lagging behind them. They are employing a new media sense with a journalistic sensibility that the professional press can only gaze upon with envy and wonder.  SMOs (student media organizations) and individual student journalists have proven much more adaptable to quick structural change than their professional counterparts, refusing to allow staff hierarchy, old media traditions or different new media knowledge or skill-sets block the path toward the realization of the media utopia of tomorrow. Journalism is the better for it, and so are we.

This blog aims to tell their story, as much as possible in their own words.

Stop by and say hello, and watch the beat go on. I’m a little bit swamped right now, but don’t forget the CICM internship. Deadline is Oct. 1 for applications.

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This is just a note to let people know that I don’t “do” Facebook apps. No matter how cute or interesting the application, I will not use it. Every time someone invites me to play along with the application (zombies, superpokes, classmates, rate movies, etc.), I get this pop-up message:

Allowing (application) access will let it pull your profile information, photos, your friends’ info, and other content that it requires to work.

As if Facebook doesn’t have enough information, they want me to give my information to any third-party company that thinks up a great idea.

No thanks, Facebook.

So I’ll be your friend, but I’m not doing the app thing. Don’t take it personally.

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Disclaimer: I spent six years working at small schools as an adviser and instructor, so I have a special place in my heart for j-students at these schools.

Here’s my latest Mediashift post: 5 Challenges for Small College Media and How to Overcome them.

Let me know what you think, and point me to some people doing good work.

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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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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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My latest piece for PBS’s MediaShift is up and running. Would love to hear feedback.

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Well, that was fun while it lasted. Back in late 2008, Brian Gardner announced that he would be offering RevolutionTwo WordPress themes, unsupported, for free.

As of Jan. 1, 2009, we find out that this new business model was actually an “experiment,” and the themes are no longer available for free download at the RevolutionTwo web site. Here, you can see Gardner’s explanation of this change.

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You can view a live chat about the inauguration at the Poynter Institute today from 1-1:30 p.m. Eastern time.

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