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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 Center [...]

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 a [...]

It’s the little things…
You’ve invariably heard the phrase turned before, whether speaking about life’s pleasures or why a product is popular. Often, it applies to products on the Web; “It’s the little things that make Gmail so good,” or, “Why does WordPress dominate as self-hosted software? It’s the little things.”

And that it is. WordPress is [...]

With a new school year kicking off across the United States, things are busy in the university scene as well as here at CoPress. Along with our own new site, many new clients are rolling out their new and improved Web presences. Of the several that went live recently, we asked a few of the [...]

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 people saw [...]

 

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This week has been a big one for journalism around the Web, with Monday morning’s bombshell being the introduction of InDenver Times. The announcement—specifically, their ambitious subscription-based revenue model—has reignited heated discussion of how news will be paid for. (It also led me to question the group’s online positioning.) Meanwhile, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer printed its [...]

Host: Adam Hemphill
Guests: Anthony Pesce, Miles Skorpen, Joseph Agreda, Max Cutler, Justin Myers, Rick Martinez, David Estes
Summary: Excerpts from a roundtable discussion among student developers from across the country regarding Django-based content management systems (and a Ruby On Rails system from FIUSM). The entire conversation is available as a MP3 download.
Links:

Populous Project
Ochs
Nameless CMS
The Maneater
Gazjango

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A few days ago, Journalism 3.0 proprietor Emily Kostic sought feedback on Twitter. The topic of discussion? CoPress, of course.
In the process of writing a blog post, Emily was hoping for someone with good knowledge of our project to explain to her the benefits of CoPress versus College Publisher. This post is my response.
Before I [...]