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Okay, so it’s not technically a student media site, but the SPLC does a lot of good for high school and college media outlets. On Aug. 25, they unveiled a new version of their website: Frank LoMonte, in an e-mail to CMA’s listserv, listed some new features: Just some of the many new features on the site include: “Learning . . . → Read More: Redesigns 2010: Student Press Law Center 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 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 Way back in the dark ages of college online media (2006), I wrote a post outlining options for college news media to host their online presence. At that time, the options were very limited. There was College Publisher or some sort of host-your-own CMS set-up, the main variable being where the site was hosted: on-campus, on . . . → Read More: New hosting options for college media  Comments are closed  Media Companies - College Related, Tech Talk, Websites  alloy marketing and media, College Publisher, detroit softworks, hosting, townnews, Website YouTube isn’t just for kids with light-sabers and teens with webcams any more. As the popularity of YouTube increases, at student newspapers, we wonder about the advantages and shortfalls of third-party hosting versus hosting your video locally.
Unfortunately, you have less content control. Youtube and most other sites (like Daily Motion, Vimeo, or Google Video) have a size limit for each video. YouTube only allows you to upload videos that is 10 minutes or less. Continue reading Should your newspaper host local or offsite? Comments - (Comments are closed) Websites, video hosting, Multimedia, social media, video, web sites, youtube |
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First off, why would any media outlet want to host their video elsewhere? Simple—unless you have a large budget, you can’t afford the bandwidth and storage space. Third-party hosting enables newspaper sites to have virtually unlimited space and bandwidth.
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