Posts under ‘College Media’

Image via WikipediaEditor’s Note: Last week, I chatted with Dan Reimold, college media scholar currently servin as a Fulbright Scholar in Singapore (read more of his bio here), about the current strength of the college newspaper print product. Our discussion was prompted by an earlier post Dan wrote on his weblog College Media Matters. What […]

Image by jmtimages via FlickrI’ve posted a few more schools to the College Media Election coverage post. I’ll be adding them to the Google map as I get the chance. The list will go on the sidebar eventually as well for future reference.
A few things to note: I saw a lot of students using Twitter […]

UPDATE: I’m twittering tonight, following some of the feeds from college media and others. You can follow CICM here.
I’m going to try to highlight some of the student efforts taking place today and tonight. With record voter turnout expected in a historic election, there should be plenty of angles to cover. This post will be […]

Michael Connery at Future Majority writes a lengthy blog post that dispels some myths about youth voter turnout that is worthwhile for student journalists who might be writing that “how did we vote?” story on election day tomorrow.
The following is a hard nosed look at what we might realistically expect on Tuesday, a list of […]

This weekend, I interviewed Kevin Koehler, a contributing editor for the Old Gold and Black at Wake Forest, about CoPress, the student-led initiative to create a community for developing better software solutions for the college media online presence. Listen to the interview below. It’s about 12 minutes long, and was edited to remove some static […]

Apropos of nothing, I created this graph at compete.com comparing site traffic for five major daily college newspapers - one from the southwest, one from the west, one from the midwest, one from the southwest and one from the northeast.

It’s a fun exercise, although there’s no telling how accurate the data is. Anyway, if you […]

The N.C. State Technician is using issuu.com to put the PDFs of their papers online. It’s an alternative to DocStoc in the online PDF format. Monday, they published a presidential election voting guide, which you can see here. There are still quite a few college newspapers who only place the front page of the paper […]

College Broadcasters, Inc. has updated their website based upon WordPress. Check it out.
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post encouraging students to localize the story of our economic situation. With the stock market still free-falling this week after a $700 BILLION rescue package was announced by the federal government, now might be a good time to reissue that call.
Searching Uwire, I’m still seeing a lot […]

A few weeks ago, a group of college news web editors and a couple of advisers got together to discuss content management systems. The result is CoPress.
From the about page:
Student newspapers, at colleges and universities, fare no better than the pros. In fact, they’re generally worse off. Few student publications have much technical talent at […]