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The Red and Black is the independent student newspaper at the University of Georgia that recently took ownership of its content management and web revenue by switching to WordPress.

After switching to WordPress, The QU Chronicle — the student-run newspaper of Quinnipiac University — transformed its workflow from weekly online publishing to daily web-first publishing.

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Recent blog posts

Edit Flow v0.3: Usergroups and enhanced notifications

Edit Flow was bumped up to v0.3 last week and saw a flurry of other updates as bugs cropped up that we managed to miss during the testing phase before release. The main focus of this release was to introduce usergroups, which will form the basis of future features and to enhance the notification functionality that [...]

Calling all students for our college news consumption survey

If you do a Google search for “How do college students read news?,” the resulting articles do little to answer the question.
We want to find an answer.
For those of us in the college media industry, understanding how students find, share and consume news is an important part of reaching that audience.
There are [...]

Recap: College Newspaper Business and Web Conference at Yale

The Yale Daily News hosted the “Conference for Newspaper Business at Yale”  Friday and Saturday, gathering the student leaders of the business sides of a bunch of college newspapers. Representatives from Yale, Brown, Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Tufts, Duke, Georgetown, Boston College gathered, including myself representing CoPress and Penn.
Over the two days, we heard from speakers [...]

Introducing Courier 0.3

Courier, my open source e-mail newsletter plugin for WordPress, is now an official product of CoPress. Although this change won’t mean much to the everyday user, for CoPress clients, it means guaranteed support for any technical issues related to the plugin.
The everyday user will notice improvements to the latest version of the plugin. A [...]