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This sucks. Apparently, there has been another murder on the VT campus. (UPDATE: Collegiatetimes.com is back up with minute-by-minute updates) The Collegiate Times web site isn’t loading, so no campus news. Will update as details become available. Related articles by Zemanta Virigina Tech massacre documents exposed Virginia Tech’s Collegiate Times has obtained copies of over 6,000 documents that the university has released after a settlement with family members of those who died and were injured on April 16, 2007. The documents were released to family members on Dec. 16, after the CT had finished publication for the semester. Kudos to their staff . . . → Read More: Collegiate Times uses Scribd to post April 16 documents (check back for updates – ed.) One year ago. Collegiate coverage: The mysterious (is it a pearl necklace? A ring of Saturn? A row of ball bearings?) Collegiate Times print edition front page: PDF Link Collegiate Times online Anniversary splash page: Connect2Mason coverage UWire’s Coverage Page: (notice the campus lockdown map on the right side of . . . → Read More: Va. Tech – 1 year later As I mentioned Monday, I headed off to the University of Georgia’s management seminar for newspaper editors, where I talked about advising and also about how other newspapers covered the Va. Tech tragedy. If you’re interested, I’m including some links and expanded notes from my talk on Tuesday afternoon. I actually didn’t get to cover the second part of the discussion, and I promised some folks that I’d post further notes online. I wasn’t able to spend as much time as I’d like talking about how student news outlets could prepare for a huge news event, but these are some of the notes I had. I don’t normally link to the CMA newsletter when it comes out, but the May/June issue features a couple of articles – by Kelly Furnas, editorial adviser at Va. Tech; and Dave Waddell of CSU-Chico – looking at the Va. Tech tragedy from the standpoint of advisers. Worth a read. You can download a PDF of the . . . → Read More: CMA newsletter spotlights Va. Tech tragedy UPDATE: Be sure and check out Griffin’s comments at the bottom of this post. He raises a couple of good issues, but fails to sway me. On a different note, a response: Chip Griffin takes up the case of using pre-roll advertisements around video of disturbing news items, mentioning that we were offended with the pre-roll ads . . . → Read More: Pre-roll ads and tragedy Fresh off our discussion of ethics, Bob Carey points out a story by News Photographer magazine about the alteration of a photo of Kevin Sterne that was sent out by the Associated Press following the Va. Tech shooting. Readers of this blog know that Sterne was the chief engineer of independent student radio station WUVT-FM, and . . . → Read More: Publications alter Va. Tech victim photo The Roanoke Times spells out how they covered the Va. Tech shooting story. As the closest daily professional newspaper, they obviously invested a lot of human resources into their coverage. Ryan Sholin asks the pertinent question: What is your emergency multimedia plan? When I talked to Chris Ritter earlier this week, one of the things we talked . . . → Read More: Roanoke’s Va. Tech shooting plan One of the reasons I spent so much time last week watching the coverage of the Va. Tech shootings, and the way the news was handled by the Collegiate Times, is that I was there a mere 7 days before – on Good Friday – talking to CT student editors about adopting a “web-first” mindset for . . . → Read More: A personal note about the Va. Tech coverage While the Va. Tech community continues to pick up the pieces of their lives in the aftermath of last Monday’s shooting tragedy, we are going to be shifting back to our regular focus for this blog. There’s much left to say about the media coverage of the shooting and its aftermath, but there are other issues . . . → Read More: Moving forward |
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