Posts under ‘Va. Tech Shooting’

At this point, the updates are going to be less frequent, but I’m going to again use this post as a pointer to what others are doing in response to the tragedy at Va. Tech. All of our coverage of Va. Tech and the way it has been handled by college media is now in […]

Lots of memorial projects are being offered up in light of the events of this week at Va. Tech. The Collegiate Times is using a Wordpress.com site to host Hokies 4/16 as a memorial project.
all of our Va. Tech coverage here.
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Update (4-18-07, 9 p.m.): Another example is in this AP video of the newly released “multimedia manifesto” by the VT killer, which features a 15-second Microsoft ad. Sorry, MS - now is not the time, this is not the video for pre-roll ads.
Yahoo! News has video from the Virginia Tech shootings, including this video of […]

Seth Gitner sends a link to a Roanoke.com video about the Collegiate Times staff doing their jobs in the midst of tragedy. Watch and share with your journalism students.
A side note: I know some of these students lost friends in this tragedy, and they are working and trying to keep their grief separate from their […]

Once again, I’ll post items that might be of interest to college media outlets as I see them. If your school media localized the story, send me an e-mail at scmurley -at- gmail.com, and i’ll drop it in the list.
CT’s list of confirmed dead.

InsideVandy stories here and here (thanks to Paige Clancy)
Daily Arbiter stories here […]

I’m going to use this post as needed today to update with any information or links that would be of interest to college media outlets.

Here’s today’s front page from the Collegiate Times. And here is their list of confirmed dead.
The Roanoke Times’ print coverage in PDF format is available here.
Joe Gisondi: On a day like […]

Update (9:13 a.m. EDT): CT’s list of confirmed dead.
In 1999, I was one day from beginning my job as photographer in the PR department at Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth when a gunman opened fire in Wedgwood Baptist Church. Seven people were killed, others injured. One of my co-workers and his family were in the […]

Arvinder Kang from the University of Mississippi did some interesting analysis of today’s news coverage of the tragic story at Virginia Tech.
Facebook was one of the fastest and most intertwined networks that people turned on to share their heartfelt feelings about the victims of Virginia Tech shooting. At 6.10 pm, facebook already had 302 groups […]

Update (4:00 p.m. EDT): From an e-mail sent to the CMA Listserv, “WUVT-FM’s student Chief Engineer, Kevin Sterne was among those shot this morning in class and is in the ICU at Montgomery County Regional Hospital. That’s all the information we have on him at this point.” WUVT-FM is the student-run radio station at […]