Sean Blanda first reached national prominence when he announced his college newspaper Temple News would be moving off College Publisher to WordPress MU. Blanda was among the first to publicly champion this idea. Since then Blanda has become a leading voice in innovative online journalism. His latest project, BarCamp NewsInnovation Philly is bringing the best [...]
April 7, 2009
Q&A with Sean Blanda of BarCamp NewsInnovation Philly
Code Release Schedule for Courant News
Max Cutler says that Courant News should be out by BarCamp NewsInnovation Philly, however: Courant will not really be ready for actual use or consumption upon its open-source-ing. The core set of functionality is essentially complete, which means you can build a news website which functions well for the visitors. However, we still haven’t had [...]
April 6, 2009
TWiC’s First Live Show Launches Tonight
This Week in CoPress is getting a lot more interactive! Tonight (April 6th) at 6 p.m. Greg Linch and Emily Kostic will be taking calls and chatting online with listeners on BlogTalkRadio. Tonight’s topic of discussion? Your web plans for next year. We’ll be talking to future EICs (and those running for that position) about [...]
April 3, 2009
We Clicked On: SPJ regional conference will attend BarCamp NewsInnovation Philadelphia
This week held big news for conference go-ers who wondered how they would be able to attend two big conferences taking place later this month. Luckily for all, the SPJ regional conference will be attending BarCamp NewsInnovation in the Annenberg building in Center City Philadelphia along with the rest of us. Meanwhile on the technology [...]
April 2, 2009
Building a Django CMS for the Spokesman Review
Daniel asked me to write up some thoughts about internal CMS development after we recently went through the process here in Spokane. For years, we’d been publishing on a fairly cluttered newspaper site running ASP and SQL Server. We were (and are) a pretty small staff, but in December we relaunched our main news site [...]
CICM’s Unique Contest to Show College Media What it Can Be
The Center for College Media is hosting a student media online journalism contest. This contest leaves no stone unturned as it is likely the most extensive contest for online student journalists and college media. The entry fee is $30 per college media (TV, Radio, Online-only, Newspaper — you’re all welcome to enter!) The fee covers [...]
April 1, 2009
This Week in CoPress: Chris O’Brien and The Next Newsroom Project
Host: Greg Linch Guest: Chris O’Brien, Project Manager at The Next Newsroom Project Summary: Greg talks with Chris about the Next Newsroom project, an initiative to create a new home for The Duke Chronicle and determine what the “next” college newsroom should entail. Chris discusses how the idea came about, the process leading up to [...]
