We Clicked On: MU School of Journalism to Require iPod Touch, iPhone
The most fascinating news this week was a huge change that is coming to the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism with the recommendation of all incoming freshman journalism students purchase either an iPod Touch or iPhone. These tools are likely to completely revolutionize the importance of mobile technology and take MoJo training to a new level. Other J schools: take note.
Around the Network
Conversation on the forum was light this week with Andrew Spittle of the Whitman Pioneer asking for feedback on the upcoming Web Design Collaboration Series that is likely to take place this summer.
Responses came in quite quickly with several community members saying they would be on board for the project and even offered their own ideas.
Kevin Koheler suggested,
Instead of focusing each session on a particular WordPress trick or CSS technique, perhpas it’d be better to focus on a particular element of news site design. List of potential topics:
- Article pages
- Typography: headlines, body text, etc
- Photos, captions
- Media – slideshows, video, maps
- Sidebars
- Links, and other attachments
- Comments
- Advertisements
- Navigation
- Front page
- Breaking news
- Blogs
On the wiki this week, Lauren updated and organized the CoPress Network Page while Emily updated this week’s TWiC show notes with Max Cutler and Richard Baskin of Courant News.
In the News
Last but not least, here are the top four links from the past week that you should check out this weekend (via the CoPress Publish2 Newsgroup):
- On Forward Thinking in College News – Max Cutler looks at why the news industry needs developers.
- Mustang Daily considering 4 days a week, front page ads – Media Board is considering going to four days/week and running advertising on the front page.
- 101 Techniques for a Powerful CMS using WordPress – WordPress Theme hacks, ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready in hand when developing WordPress websites
- Young journalists should learn how to write a business plan – Christopher Wink thinks that student journalists should know how to write a business plan
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