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This post is a behind-the-scenes look at how the Amherst Wire team produced Economic Stimulus 101, an example of deep-information journalism in an online multimedia format. >Why deep-information journalism? The Internet is awash with information that is, too frequently, miles wide and only inches deep. News organizations add to the problem when they bombard readers [...]

The best piece of news this week, in my opinion, is that News Mixer will be working on WordPress integration. That’s right, the sweet piece of commenting goodness originally launched as NewsMixer.us and recently announced to be integrated with the Populous Project will be coming to the world’s most popular blogging platform and overall Swiss [...]

Words of warning. The following post is hotly contested internally among us CoPress folk. Very likely this is controversial to the greater community as well. But at the risk of having people with pitchforks or angry twitterers show up at my door, I’ll go ahead and share my opinion. I’d like to propose a simple [...]

Host: Bryan Murley Guests: Brad Arendt, Boise State Arbiter; Kevin Schwartz, Daily Tar Heel; Max Cutler, Yale Daily News; Joey Baker, Daily Orange Summary: A comprehensive introduction to the current state of online newspaper monetization. Most student newspapers make less than 10% of their overall revenue from online, and the limitations seem to be a [...]

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When copy editors tell me how they feel lost in the Web-first world, I know how they feel. When section editors tell me they don’t think their copy desk is ready for Web duties, I know how they feel, too. I know because I’ve felt the same way at one point or another in the past [...]

Host: Greg Linch Guest: Andrew DeVigal Summary: Today’s episode of This Week in CoPress is a conversation with New York Times multimedia editor Andrew DeVigal, who previously worked with student media at San Francisco State. DeVigal gives advice to student news organizations regarding how they can improve their multimedia content and therefore their Web site, from video [...]

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Ok, I can’t get much hokier than that. Now is the time to get involved with CoPress! If you’d like to, we’ve started outlining a few golden paths to do so: Contribute to the Blog Redesign your website recently? Have an idea for the next killer student news application? Join the growing list of contributors [...]

I’m a day late on this post, but there were some epic developments this week that I feel I have to share. Around the Network We kicked off a lively discussion in the forum on Monday asking, “What are your website goals for the rest of the semester?” A number of great ideas have surfaced [...]