Posts under ‘Interviews’

Editor’s Note: Regina McCombs has been producing multimedia for startribune.com, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune’s online site, since 1997. She has won numerous awards for her work, and teaches and speaks around the country about multimedia and the news business. I interviewed McCombs via Instant Messaging on Thursday, July 5.
ICM: You were at Poynter last week […]

Editor’s note: I interviewed Will Sullivan, who runs the widely read Journerdism weblog and also works as Interactive Projects Editor at the Palm Beach Post. Part of the interview was conducted via GTalk instant messaging, and the latter part via e-mail after technical glitches hit our IM session. Thanks to Will for taking the time […]

Ryan Sholin is a grad student at San Jose State University (working on his thesis at this point), and a multimedia journalist at the Santa Cruz Sentinel. While at SJSU, he worked on the web site for the Spartan Daily. He’s been blogging about the changing face of the news business for as long […]

Last week, I had the opportunity to interview Derrick Peavy of Universal Advertising, which operates in the classified advertising space. They are currently building out collegeclassifieds.com, a site which has a number of partners in the college media community, with a strong presence in the Southeast. The recent announcement that Facebook would be launching their […]

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Yesterday, I spent about 40 minutes talking with Paul Pennelli of College Publisher about their new video partnership with Roo. Here’s the official press release from PRwire. Here’s an interview with one of the principles behind Roo, conducted by Beet.tv.
Here are links to the video pages for a couple of the campus newspapers […]

Editor’s Note: I met Eric Eldon at a CMA convention two years ago, and have been following the evolution of this company since that time. I have provided feedback when asked and presented at a Canadian University Press convention along with Unimedia/WriteWith developer Phil Kast.

WriteWith started out as a “whiteboard” system for college newspapers to […]

The Business Beat
Participants at the recent CICM new media workshop in Nashville listened intently to keynote speaker Jennifer Carroll. Carroll is Gannett’s vice president of new media content in the newspaper division of the company.
Carroll played a key role in the development of Gannett’s “Information Center” concept and was named Gannett corporate staffer of […]

Attention all students!
If for no other reason, learn new media skills for increased employment opportunties. There is a sweet spot in the journalism job market right now for good journalists with multimedia skills. Demand, at least for now, outstrips the supply of good digital storytellers.
Angela Grant taught our video sessions at last weekend’s CICM […]

Founder of the First Amendment Center, John Seigenthaler, made an unscheduled appearance at this weekend’s “Future of Journalism” conference hosted by the Center for Innovation in College Media in Nashville.
After a six decade career in journalism, 80-year-old Seigenthaler says he wishes he was 18 again to take part in the next era of journalism.
Seigenthaler says […]

Another short clip (about 1 minute) from the day spent at Roanoke. This should be of particular interest to college journalists and advisers. And it’s a good promo for the new media sessions at CMA’s Spring Convention this week.
A further note about the video: I’m using Blip.tv to stream the files, and the comments have […]