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 [...]
May 8, 2009
We Clicked On: MU School of Journalism to Require iPod Touch, iPhone
May 7, 2009
College News Organizations Running Django, April 2009
A round-up of the student news organizations running Django in April 2009 as part of our end of the school year retrospective. The Maneater Your name (or the Web Editor’s name): We have two online editors. Currently, I [Justin Myers] am the online development editor and Esten Hurtle is the online content editor; after Tuesday’s [...]
May 6, 2009
This Week in CoPress: Q&A with Courant News
Hosts: Greg Linch, Emily Kostic, and Miles Skorpen Guests: Max Cutler and Robert Baskin Summary: A question and answer session with Courant News, an open source Django CMS for student news organizations. The idea to build a Django CMS specifically for student newspapers came from discussion at an Ivy League news conference last April when [...]
May 4, 2009
Ask Courant News About Their New Django CMS
Clarification: Courant News is being developed as a side project of Max Cutler, Robert Baskin and Paul O’Shannessy — independent of the Yale Daily News. It will eventually become the Yale Daily News’ CMS. Tomorrow at 5 p.m. Eastern (Tuesday, May 5th) Emily and I will record a new episode of This Week in CoPress [...]
May 2, 2009
On Forward Thinking in College News
Max, a developer, breaks down why the news industry needs developers, and why College Publisher represents 80% thinking. In part, Max is calls for more developers in the news business (yes please!), and in part he examines why opensource solutions are so desperately needed in this industry.
May 1, 2009
We Clicked On: BarCamp Philly a Great Success
The big news this week was BarCamp Philly on April 25, which a majority of CoPress attended. The day was a great success – filled with insightful conversations and great networking. Where else will find new media thinkers all in the same room trying to solve the problems in the industry? If you missed out [...]
