Posts under ‘College Media News’

Via Aggiejournalists, here’s some info on Abilene Christian University’s new Student Media News Lab, which puts the multimedia into one location.
The JMC/network comprises print, broadcast and online products. Students work for the network both curricularly, through their courses, and co-curricularly … Among other features of the renovated spaces are a faculty/student commons, an advertising and […]

Via Christina Drain at Pensacola Junior College, I read that Brian Gardner, creator of the popular premium Revolution themes, is changing the model for Revolution as of Nov. 1. After that, all Revolution themes will be open-sourced. Those who purchased the earlier Revolution themes will have exclusive access to them.
There will be a new set […]

Last week, it was the Daily Mississippian bringing the hardcore debate coverage. This week, it’s Student Life at Washington University trying to keep the web site focused for the vice presidential debate. General Manager Andy O’Dell says the students plan “Live blogging, video, photos, slideshows, interviews, etc.” updated throughout the day.
Start Slide Show with PicLens […]

Another blog has launched to follow college media news: College Media Matters. This one is run by Dan Reimold. Dan and I were on a panel at AEJMC last year in Washington, DC.
From the about page of the blog:
This site aims to tell the story of the modern college media. Specifically, CMM strives to […]

Image via WikipediaCollege Rag has some information about an absolutely, mind-bogglingly authoritarian decision by Quinnipiac University President Lahey to ban university employees from talking to student journalists from an independent web publication. Hartford-Courant columnist Rick Green has a column that sums things up pretty well.
Lahey, as president of a private university, is within his rights […]

Image via Wikipedia Inside HigherEd has a story about the Daily Californian’s decision to drop a print day (our previous coverage here), and adds another paper to the mix: The Syracuse Daily Orange.
Late last month, two student newspapers announced plans to curtail print publications, citing the same drain in advertising revenues that has prompted layoffs […]

This is ridiculous.
Two UK students and the photo adviser for the Kentucky Kernel were arrested at the Republican National Convention Monday afternoon in St. Paul, Minn., on charges of felony rioting. They were photographing the protesting of the convention.Photographers Ed Matthews and Britney McIntosh and adviser Jim Winn were three of 286 people arrested as […]

Nick Brennan just got back from covering the Democratic Convention in Denver for NYU’s Washington Square News, and another reporter is covering the Republican Convention in St. Paul this week.
Full coverage is here. Brennan went all web 2.0 on the DNC with his coverage - archived here. “I twittered, shot video and photos, and […]

The Tower, student newspaper at Catholic University of America, has switched from College Publisher to Wordpress with the relaunch of their web site at cuatower.com. The new site is skinned with the Revolution WP theme.
Ryan Reilly, co-editor-in-chief, writes:
We made it one of our goals to drop College Publisher and start generating our own online revenue, […]

I was interviewed for a story by Becca Denison of the Daily Tar Heel - Student paper forced to trim. Harry Montevideo of Georgia’s Red and Black also comments.
And DTH Editor in Chief Allison Nichols uses the incident to examine the DTH’s fiscal health in this blog post.