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The Daily Bruin just launched a new version of their site now using the Gryphon CMS from DetroitSoftworks. Here’s the new design: Here’s a screencap from Aug. 31, right before the switch: And here’s an ancient screen cap from 2007 (file . . . → Read More: Redesigns 2010: UCLA Daily Bruin Jim Killam sends along word about the redesign of the Northern Star at Northern Illinois. Here’s the new look: And here’s what the site looked like a couple of years ago (most recent version I have): In addition to the redesign, the Northern Star is now using TownNews as a CMS. Previously, they had a homegrown CMS . . . → Read More: Redesigns 2010: NIU’s Northern Star Onward State is an online-only publication for Penn State. Publisher Davis Shaver sends along news of their redesign for the new school year. “Major new features include community posting capabilities, community member profiles, and topic pages,” Shaver wrote in an e-mail. Here’s the old design: And here’s the new design: More news above the fold, more graphics, and a . . . → Read More: Redesigns 2010: Onward State The Lee Clarion of Lee University redesigned over the summer. Kevin Trowbridge said it was redesigned for the first time since the site went online in 2008. Here’s the old design: Here’s the new design: Lighter flag, larger dominant art, more white space . . . → Read More: Redesigns 2010: Lee Clarion New school year, new site designs. Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be sharing screenshots of some of the online college news sites that have put on a new coat of digital pixie dust. If your media outlet has redesigned the web presence over the summer, drop me an e-mail at scmurley -at- gmail.com to . . . → Read More: Redesigns! We’re looking for redesigns! The offices of the Lamar University student newspaper, the University Press This summer, I had the opportunity to travel back to my hometown, Beaumont, Texas, and visit my college newspaper stomping grounds – the University Press. Student Publications Director Andy Coughlan led me through the offices, which have been expanded greatly since my time . . . → Read More: You can never go home again: Alma mater going online 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) College Media Review, a publication of College Media Advisers, Inc., is a great resource for college media advisers and journalism faculty. It’s also available for free online. The latest edition includes an article by Jeff Halliday about mobile reporting. You can download the PDF (5.5 MB) . . . → Read More: College Media Review available for download Image via Wikipedia Brian Manzullo, late of the Central Michigan University Central Michigan Life student newspaper, has written a thought-provoking blog post with the enticing title: Three things I dare journalism students to do before they graduate. Hey, it’s a dare, right? So I’m going to piggy-back on Brian’s post and propose that j-profs engage in these . . . → Read More: Three things I challenge j-profs to do along with their students |
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