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On Oct. 10 of last year, we launched this weblog - Innovation in College Media - as part of the Center for Innovation in College Media, a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation, with the sole purpose of prodding our fellow advisers and student journalists to embrace and implement new media initiatives on their campuses.
It’s been a busy […]

Tomorrow morning (way too early), I’m heading out to attend my first-ever Online News Association Conference in Toronto. I feel like I’ll be stepping into a room full of celebrities. Hopefully, I’ll get to meet some of the folks I’ve interviewed over the course of this weblog, and also meet and interview some new faces. […]

Sunday and Monday, Chris Carroll (pictured above) and I got the opportunity to visit with students and board members of Student Life, the student newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis. The editors we met with were interested in making their web presence more robust, but unsure how to go about it. We spent about […]

This Friday, I spent most of the day with faculty and students at Simpson College in Iowa, as a visiting outside consultant. Simpson’s Communication department is looking at ways to revamp their curriculum for the future. While there, I got to meet with the editors of The Simpsonian, the nation’s oldest continuously published student newspaper, […]

I was interviewed for an article in the Charleston (IL) Times-Courier about reader comments. You can read the article here.
One caveat: The last paragraph of the article contains a misquote. I said that I was “guardedly” optimistic about the future of journalism. Somewhere in the editing path, that got changed to “gradually,” which doesn’t make […]

Last night, a fresh install got my computer working. Today, I’m at the AEJMC convention in Washington, DC. This morning was a panel presentation about challenges facing college media. Later, I’ll post the paper we presented about results from our online survey of college media advisers.

In the middle of last week, my laptop decided to begin acting up. The required step to fix it is a reformat and reinstall using the install CD that came with the computer. Unfortunately, that disk is packed in a box right now in storage until next Monday. Meanwhile, I’m traveling to Washington DC today […]

A few weeks back, there was a raging debate among journalists and bloggers about the “death of the interview.” A number of pundits weighed in on the pros and cons of phoners, in-person interviews, and e-mail interviews. For reference, see Stepno, Jarvis, Gillmor, Winer, Rosen, and Glaser. I commented somewhere that I thought the IM […]

Colleague Ralph Braseth was at the Mississippi Press Association last weekend to talk about the changing nature of news. The Sun-Herald has a brief write-up of his presentation here: Web changes journalists.

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