10000 Words gives us a list of top college newsorg sites, more from the perspective of what content they offer than the design, but its good to see what some of the best are doing. Ideas: lots of infographics, blogs, and user interactivity.
April 20, 2009
What Content Should You Be Producing?
TWiC This Afternoon: Advice From the Professionals
CoPress will be getting some professional help this afternoon. No! Not that kind! (Although that wouldn’t hurt!) We’ll be speaking with professional journalists about what they would do with the web if they were college media leaders in today’s world. We’ll be talking to New York Times reporter and former TVNewser blogger and Towerlight Editor [...]
April 19, 2009
Metrics For User Engagement
Eric Ulken has a forward-thinking post on OJR about how BusinessWeek is going beyond page views and unique visitors to define their audience. Internal metrics, things like the number of comments on a story, number of return commenters, and so on, could be exponentially more powerful if you managed them with a CRM database tied [...]
April 17, 2009
We Clicked On: Ashton Kutcher Beats Out CNN for 1,000,000 Followers
This week, eyes have been on Twitter, as the race to 1,000,000 followers reached fever pitch with Ashton Kutcher reaching 1,000,000 followers on Twitter around 2:30 a.m. ET. On Wednesday, CNN acquired CNNbrk twitter account to further its lead over Ashton Kutcher to further the race between the media and man. Around the Network Discussion [...]
April 15, 2009
This Week in CoPress: College Newspapers and the Switch to Drupal
Hosts: Greg Linch and Emily Kostic Guests: Steve Contorno, former editor in chief of the University of Illinois’s The Daily Illini and Zach Valentire, the Webmaster of the Minnesota Daily. Dreier Carr, the photo editor of The Technician at North Carolina State. Summary: Greg and Emily discuss the power of Drupal and the creation of [...]
April 13, 2009
Behind the Scenes of Mustang Daily’s New WordPress Website
Today — four months after first learning about CoPress through Twitter — the Mustang Daily launched its new WordPress site, hosted and supported by CoPress. The Mustang Daily, a 2008 Online Pacemaker Winner and 2009 Pacemaker Finalist, had been with College Publisher since 2006. Website Design We went with the Gazette Edition from WooThemes because [...]
The Big Question: Recruiting Technical Talent
Max Cutler asks one of the big questions on everyone’s mind these days: how do you recruit technical talent to your student news organization? I’ve often been asked by my colleagues at the YDN what we can do to recruit more people to the web team. There are clearly people with the requisite skills on [...]
April 10, 2009
We Clicked On: Google and Their Troubled Relationship with Newspapers
The big news this week was Google’s Eric Schmidt and his speech to the NAA, where he told newspaper executives a rather radical (to them, at least) business model includes “not pissing off the readers.” Of course, the speech was not well received by many new media leaders who wanted Schmidt to take a more [...]
April 8, 2009
A Brand New, Drupally Daily Illini
CICM deserves the hat tip for this one: earlier this week, The Daily Illini, a student newspaper at the University of Illinois, launched a brand new website built from Drupal: You’ll notice immediately on the home page some of the new features we have introduced. The goal was to provide more entry points to our [...]
This Week in CoPress: Changes Coming to Online Student Media
Host: Greg Linch and Emily Kostic Guests: Andrew Dunn, the incoming Editor in Chief of UNC’s The Daily Tar Heel (with appearances by Adam Hemphill, Bryan Murley, and Albert Sun) Summary: Greg and Emily discuss with Andrew The Daily Tar Heel’s upcoming CMS, training staff, and video/audio equipment. In addition, Adam, Bryan and Albert weigh [...]
