Casey Templeton, James Madison alum, was among the people photographing this week at Va. Tech. Here’s a link to his homepage with a slideshow from the tragedy.

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Hokies 4/16, the memorial site set up by the Collegiate Times, has a series of videos from various colleges (and at least one high school) around the country which held memorial vigils in recent days. Go there and scroll down to see videos from George Mason, Nebraska, N. Georgia College and State University, UN-Reno, Mary Washington, and Lincoln-Sudbury Regional H.S.. All of the videos are being shared via YouTube.

In light of recent controversies surrounding the video sharing site, it’s a good reminder that social media isn’t all about copyright violations. More often, it’s about sharing our humanity.

Link to all our previous coverage.

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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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Lots of memorial projects are being offered up in light of the events of this week at Va. Tech. The Collegiate Times is using a WordPress.com site to host Hokies 4/16 as a memorial project.

all of our Va. Tech coverage here.

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Seth Gitner sends a link to a Roanoke.com video about the Collegiate Times staff doing their jobs in the midst of tragedy. Watch and share with your journalism students.

A side note: I know some of these students lost friends in this tragedy, and they are working and trying to keep their grief separate from their duty as journalists. It’s an admirable effort. But they will need time to grieve and heal just like everyone else affected by this. Journalists are not superhuman, they are not automatons. I hope they take the time they need to be human during all this.

All previous coverage here.

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Once again, I’ll post items that might be of interest to college media outlets as I see them. If your school media localized the story, send me an e-mail at scmurley -at- gmail.com, and i’ll drop it in the list.

CT’s list of confirmed dead.

• InsideVandy stories here and here (thanks to Paige Clancy)
• Daily Arbiter stories here and here (thanks to Brad Arendt)
• The Daily Kent Stater has a section of stories. A reporter who traveled to Va. Tech blogs her experience here (via Meranda Watling).
• The MU Savitar reports that a shooting near the University of Missouri-Columbia was reported incorrectly as the news broke. (via Matt Sokoloff)
• Tuesday’s CT front page
• Wednesday’s CT front page (PDF 3.6 MB)
• Editor & Publisher interviews Collegiate Times editor Amie Steele. The interview mentions that the Tuesday edition of the CT didn’t go to press until 6 a.m. Tuesday. It was mostly on the racks by 9-10 a.m. (hat tip: Journerdism)
• Mark Hamilton dissects news coverage and says some things I totally agree with: The new coverage.
• Student journalists from the Daily Pennsylvanian traveled to Va. Tech yesterday. Photos and stories here, here, and here.
• The L.A. Times profiles the Collegiate Times staff’s response (via Romenesko).
• The UVA Cavalier Daily front page from Tuesday
• Housekeeping: For some reason, our site traffic statistics are showing a lot of visitors searching for BigLickU, the social networking site started by the Roanoke Times. Unfortunately, they are arriving at a post we wrote several months ago about the implications of BigLickU for college campus media. I’m almost positive that’s not the information they’re seeking. The interplay between the various media in Blacksburg (BigLickU, Roanoke.com, Collegiate Times, and Planet Blacksburg) is certainly an interesting story. In fact, Ralph Braseth interviewed someone at a media conference this weekend about BigLickU. But it’s not the story for now.

Previous coverage:
Va. Tech Updates
It’s only just begun..
Virginia Tech news analysis
Another campus shooting
and The problem with pre-roll advertisements: now is not the time

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I’m going to use this post as needed today to update with any information or links that would be of interest to college media outlets.

• Here’s today’s front page from the Collegiate Times. And here is their list of confirmed dead.
• The Roanoke Times’ print coverage in PDF format is available here.
• Joe Gisondi: On a day like this, sports are put in perspective.
• Lots of college media outlets should be localizing this story. Here’s some links from the Daily Illini (here and here) and EHCWired (here, here, here, and here). Emory & Henry is located 90 miles from Va. Tech and we have many students with close ties to VT.
• TCU Daily Skiff: Virginia Tech Massacre: Campus security analyzed following campus shooting.
• Daily Collegian (Penn State): here, here, here, and here. (see comments from Steve Clancy below).
• The University of Oklahoma was locked down earlier today. Details here. (via Lori Brooks).
• For feeds to stories from papers that publish online using College Publisher, there’s the Syndicated College News page, which feeds through individual student newspapers, but it’s the same material on all of them (via Eric Jacobs).
• InsideVandy.com: Vanderbilt begins to respond to Virginia Tech shootings. Also, blogs here
• Newsdesigner.com has a roundup of various front pages from Virginia and around the nation.
• Indiana Daily Student: IU Reacts to Virginia Shooting. (via David Adams)
• Threats rattle 3 universities, 2 schools AP via Yahoo!
• Nevada Sagebrush (UN-Reno): Shootings at Va. Tech draw UNR response, and Texting could have helped in Virginia Tech mass shooting. (via Amy Koeckes)

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