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This guest post is both an update on our previous coverage of Connect2Mason and the first in our new series about innovative models of interest to college media sites. George Mason University has an interesting community; with many of the students living off-campus or attending classes at one of the four satellite campuses, finding a [...]

Google News, Google’s news indexing engine, has received a lot of criticism and praise alike largely because it’s a powerful way of driving traffic to news websites. Rupert Murdoch recently accused Google of stealing content from the News Corp. news outlets and even went as far as threatening to pull all News Corp.’s content from all Google [...]

In this episode of College Media Lab, Greg Linch and I spoke with two innovative journalism professors about the state of college media. This week’s guests: McAdams Mindy McAdams (@macloo) is the Knight Chair for Journalism Technologies and the Democratic Process at the University of Florida and the author of Flash Journalism. Mindy is known for online [...]

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Update (Nov. 18, 2009 at 2 p.m.): I’ve added Connect2Mason, another site we’ve previously covered, to the list of examples and included a link to a podcast with their founder. From linking out and social media to video and liveblogging, student journalists often hear advice about steps their individual news organizations should take to succeed [...]

WordCamp NYC 2009 — a two-day, community-organized conference held at Baruch College of the City University of New York — offered a lot of inspiring sessions on how people and organizations are using WordPress, WordPressMU, BuddyPress and BBPress to manage content and build communities. For those of you who couldn’t make it, here is a [...]

Recommended links for the weekend: What’s coming down the pike for Courier - New features in short order: ability to map Courier users to WordPress users, queuing support, and statistics on subscriber base changes. A brand new, Django-powered Harvard Crimson launched on 11/10/09 at 8:07 pm. In a stroke of amazing luck, Scott Bressler has a [...]

The Texas Tribune, an innovative news start-up located in Austin, is a non-profit that seeks to cover news in the entire state using features like extensive databases, blogs, calendar, an elected officials directory (and an iPhone app for it), a state newswire,  a slick mobile site and much more. There’s a lot student media can [...]

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Recommended links for the weekend: A course idea pitched to the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University: a journalism entrepreneurship class with a twist. The school would create a corporation that invested in the student’s projects in exchange for 70% ownership. They’d help incubate the business with the eventual goal of selling the successful [...]

In terms of scale and scope, Election Day is consistently one of the biggest stories of the year. Generally presidential election years receive the most attention, and most newspapers depend on wire services to provide the results. This year, Maine’s ballot contained a referendum to overturn a law allowing same-sex marriage. The turnout was immense [...]

Today was the last day of the 2009 ACP/CMA Conference in Austin, TX and this morning the winners of the annual “Best in Show” awards were named. You can view the full list on the ACP website. We want to extend a very special congratulations to the College Heights Herald, winner of the best Publication Website among [...]