Presenting multimedia with dedicated landing pages

Max Cutler, Web developer at the Yale Daily News and Courant News, recently started a forum topic about presenting multimedia on a student news site that we’ve been meaning to start a conversation around. The YDN recently launched a new landing page for their multimedia that offers a much more graphic view. What’s your reaction to [...]

Notes from #NCMC09: “Defining What’s Good in Digital Journalism” (Friday, 9 a.m.)

This week, CoPress directors Daniel Bachhuber, Andrew Spittle, Lauren Rabaino and Adam Hemphill are attending the National College Media Convention in Austin, Texas. These are reports from the field. For more updates, follow the conversation on Twitter. In “Defining What’s Good in Digital Journalism,” Mark Briggs led a panel discussion featuring Bryan Murley from the [...]

Notes from #NCMC09: “Online models that will give your newspaper greater reach” (Fri. 1:30)

This week, CoPress directors Daniel Bachhuber, Andrew Spittle, Lauren Rabaino and Adam Hemphill are attending the National College Media Convention in Austin, Texas. These are reports from the field. For more updates, follow the conversation on Twitter. August E. Grant from the University of South Carolina shared lessons learned from Newsplex, a project that started [...]

Steve Outing at #ncmc09 General Session (Friday 10am)

#ncmc09 General Session with Steve Outing

Notes from #ncmc09 – The Populous Project (Thursday, 2pm)

This week, CoPress directors Daniel Bachhuber, Andrew Spittle, Lauren Rabaino and Adam Hemphill are attending the National College Media Convention in Austin, Texas. These are reports from the field. For more updates, follow the conversation on Twitter. In the “Townsquare” session, led by Arvil Ward and Anthony Pesce, the Populous Project was demoed. The Populous Project [...]

Notes from #ncmc09: Marketing your newspaper online (Thursday, noon)

This week, CoPress directors Daniel Bachhuber, Andrew Spittle, Lauren Rabaino and Adam Hemphill are attending the National College Media Convention in Austin, Texas. These are reports from the field. For more updates, follow the conversation on Twitter. Kristin Millis (University of Washington) and Jason Manning (Arizona State) shared ways to market your newspaper both online [...]

Notes from #NCMC09: “Multimedia Storytelling” (Thursday, 10 a.m.)

This week, CoPress directors Daniel Bachhuber, Andrew Spittle, Lauren Rabaino and Adam Hemphill are attending the National College Media Convention in Austin, Texas. These are reports from the field. For more updates, follow the conversation on Twitter. In the “Multimedia Storytelling” session, presented by photojournalist David Stephenson, the Canon 5D Mark II was showcased as [...]

Notes from #ncmc09 – To Tweet or not to Tweet

Andy Dehnart from Reality Blurred demoed Facebook, Twitter, Google Maps, and Google Voice among other things at the ACP/CMA 2009 conference. He started with a recap of how Facebook fan pages can benefit your news organization. Among other things the insights that Facebook offers could prove useful to figuring out how effective campaigns are. He [...]

College Media Lab: The Chronicle at Duke switches to Drupal

Lauren Rabaino and I spoke with a few Web staffers from The Chronicle at Duke University for the latest episode of College Media Lab (the renamed This Week in CoPress). Our guests were: Alex Klein (@alexklein), online editor Dean Chen (@deanchen), lead developer Chase Olivieri (@chasefoto), multimedia editor As you might have seen, Alex wrote [...]

Hacking the Student Newsroom: Recapping the first session

This past Thursday we ran the first of what will become a bi-weekly series. We’re calling it “Hacking the Student Newsroom.” Each session will lead you through a specific skill related to WordPress and college news that you can implement immediately. We’ll also do our best to record the workshops for those who can’t make [...]