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The Chronicle of Higher Education had an article recently about college newspapers abandoning “template-driven” College Media Network for open-source content management systems (CMS): For College Newspapers, Prepackaged Online Versions are Yesterday’s News. The article quotes the editor of the Daily Texan about how they now have so much more control over the presentation of the material on . . . → Read More: It’s still about the journalism, not the CMS  Comments - (Comments are closed)  College Media News, Content Management Systems  Chronicle of Higher Education, Content management system Via Dan at College Media Matters, we find the Princeton Review’s “Top 20 Best College Newspapers.” Wow. What a list. Some names you probably recognize: Yale, Texas, North Carolina, Duke, Harvard, Maryland. The entire list is reproduced at CMM. (Dan has also added 15 other papers he believes should be on the list.) Pretty impressive, eh? Unfortunately, the . . . → Read More: Princeton Review’s “20 Best College Newspapers” is a joke (rant) As part of my summer inbox clean-up, I’m posting about some “old” news from Kent State. In January, Kent State’s student media redesigned, migrated and renamed their web presence, according to an e-mail from student media adviser Susan Kirkman Zake. The new URL for the former KentNewsNet is Kentwired.com, which is much easier to remember than the . . . → Read More: Kent State upgrades web presence to Kentwired.com The Daily Tar Heel at UNC-Chapel Hill has moved to a new content management system for the second time in as many years. After moving to a custom-built system based on Drupal last summer, they have moved to Gryphon by Detroit Softworks (mentioned in a post about new CMS options for college media earlier this summer). Here’s . . . → Read More: Daily Tar Heel moves to new CMS – again The Red and Black at the University of Georgia has switched from College Publisher to a WordPress system, hosted by CoPress. Along with the new CMS, the R&B freshened up their design. Chelsea Cook and Daniel Burnett talked about the switch in this article. The Chronicle at Quinnipiac University has also moved to WordPress through CoPress. And the . . . → Read More: Redesigns: Red and Black, QU Chronicle, and WKUHerald Comments are closed College Media, College Media News, Websites College Heights Herald, college newspapers, QU Chronicle, Red and Black, web site design, web sites, Wordpress
Last week, I noticed via twitter (@danielbachhuber) that the Daily Tar Heel had launched an iPhone app, developed with Amuzu, Inc. Going to the link, I noticed that the Daily Illini and the Daily Sundial at Cal State-Northridge had also worked with Amuzu to develop their iPhone apps. (all those links are . . . → Read More: iPhone apps for college media The collegiate Online Pacemakers were announced this weekend in Austin at the National College Media Convention. I am pleased to report that dennews.com, the Daily Eastern News’ web site, was among the winners (as was OUDaily, pictured above). Lots of good sites to check out for ideas and inspiration. Congrats to all the winners and . . . → Read More: Pacemaker winners College Media Network is hosting a conference call with GlobalPost’s David Case to focus on journalism jobs and a new partnership between GlobalPost and CBS to provide foreign reporting. The conference call is open to all college journalists (not just CMN affiliates). Click the link above to find out more information and RSVP . . . → Read More: GlobalPost/CMN conference call 5 p.m. EDT today College and high school radio stations urge Congress to oppose record-label supported legislation In a letter to members of Congress delivered earlier today under the banner of the Free Radio Alliance and the College Broadcasters Inc. (CBI), faculty, staff, and students from more than 80 stations including Duke University, Harvard University, the University of Wisconsin, SUNY-Brockport, Rice . . . → Read More: Radio stations urge Congress to stop the fee madness It’s near the end of the semester, and that means students are happy to be reaching the finish line, and ramped up enough on booze and whatever else to start destroying things, whether provoked or not. Students at Kent State decided last night’s festivities deserved some pyrotechnics. Apparently, the police decided otherwise. The term “riot” has . . . → Read More: Rioting for no reason – KSU/UM media cover teh stupid |
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