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Updated: Dec. 16 7:18 p.m. We mistakenly referred to the Kodzk Zi6 as having an external microphone input jack. The Zi8, which costs $50 more, is the model we should have mentioned. Yesterday Nielsen reported that video streaming online is up 17 percent for November, but of the top online brands for video, not one [...]

Last Thursday a few of us gathered to talk about the development projects that will be seeing heavy work over the winter break. Max Cutler, Andrew Dunn, Will, Daniel, and Lauren joined me for a half hour conversation covering the various projects that we are all working on. The full audio is attached at the [...]

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It’s been a couple of weeks since our last link roundup, but that doesn’t mean there’s been any shortage of news. Among all of the announcements made by Google this week, Living Stories struck me as by far the most interesting. This has serious implications the near future of news. Why? Because it’s experimenting with [...]

Leading into this week’s Hacking the Student Newsroom session, here’s a quick preview of online projects individual student journalists and newsorgs will be conducting over the upcoming winter break: Investigative multimedia site from McKenna Ewen McKenna Ewen, a multimedia journalist at the University of Minnesota, is doing an investigative piece about a journalist’s mysterious death [...]

When news that a Cal Poly student had gone missing hit the Mustang Daily newsroom, editors knew they had a big story on their hands. The next morning when the student’s bike was found at the base of a local mountain, the implications for the story were larger. The editors were on the cusp of [...]

This week we’ve combined our inspiring models for college media series and College Media Lab, featuring Technically Philly and News Inkubator. Listen to or download the podcast at the end of the post. Hey college news, it’s your older brother: hyperlocal. We’re not so different, you and I. We’re both industries dominated by the inexperienced. [...]

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Many newspapers are now transitioning to a Web-first workflow; among other things, this means that weekly papers can break stories online long before they’re printed in the newspaper. At The Maine Campus, we’ve faced problems deciding how to handle new developments in such stories — whether older versions of the story get a write-through or [...]