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Rick Martinez’s “Summer of Code” plans for Nameless CMS, a Ruby on Rails option that is on its way to becoming open source, include writing a Ruby library for creating and working with InCopy files, an overhaul of the admin to incorporate workflow features, and an alpha release for people to play with. If you’re [...]

Andrew Dunn and Sara Gregory have posted a draft design for the new Daily Tar Heel Drupal website being designed by Stunt3 and welcome feedback from the community. If I were redesigning a website right now for a student news organization, I’d use the opportunity to try something even more radical. What if the Daily [...]

Hosts: Greg Linch and Emily Kostic Guests: Lauren Rabaino, Web Editor and Marlize van Romburgh, Editor in Chief of The Mustang Daily Summary: Lauren Rabaino and Marlize Van Romburgh swap stories with Greg and Emily as the four discuss each of their college newspapers transitions to WordPress. Subscribe: iTunes | RSS

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A round-up of the student news organizations running WordPress in April 2009. Temple News Web Editor’s Name: Dave Isaac How Often Do You Publish (Online): Daily How Often Do You Publish (Print): Weekly What is the most interesting feature on your Web site? We have unique section pages Size of Staff: 24 Size of Audience [...]

If you missed the tweets earlier today, interspersed between BarCamp NewsInnovation Philly updates, Max Cutler announced that Courant News now has a live project website. From the first blog post, it sounds as though the project began in a very similar environment as CoPress: It all began last summer, when we came up with an [...]

We’re doing it live! BCNI Philly – Reinventing J-School

We’re a day late on this because of everyone’s travel, but the show must go on! Around the Network The discussion of advertising rates continued this week. Brad Arendt approaches the issue of click-throughs and identifies two issues: finding the proper tool to accurately count click-throughs and take down the ad when the limit had [...]

Lauren Rabaino published a constructive blog post a couple days ago on how the Mustang Daily is adjusting to a web-first workflow. From the looks of it, they’re asking and answering a number of questions that other news organizations will behaving further along the line: Who copy edits when? Does the section editor look at [...]

Hosts: Greg Linch and Emily Kostic Guests: Howard Owens (@howardowens), publisher of The Batavian, Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) of The New York Times, and freelance writer Jonathan Fitzpatrick Summary: Howard Owens and Brian Stelter discuss along with Jonathan Fitzpatrick discuss how to train a web savvy staff, how to wain your readers off the print edition [...]

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College media is a funny beast. It seems to lag about a year to three years behind the mainstream media. This applies web-first thinking, blogging, web site design, and monetization. So, this weekend, when the CoPress forum became an active discussion of CPM vs CPC vs CPD ad models, I couldn’t help but grin twice. First, because this [...]