CoPress

Andrew Dunn and Sara Gregory have posted a draft design for the new Daily Tar Heel Drupal website being designed by Stunt3 and welcome feedback from the community. If I were redesigning a website right now for a student news organization, I’d use the opportunity to try something even more radical. What if the Daily [...]

If you missed the tweets earlier today, interspersed between BarCamp NewsInnovation Philly updates, Max Cutler announced that Courant News now has a live project website. From the first blog post, it sounds as though the project began in a very similar environment as CoPress: It all began last summer, when we came up with an [...]

We’re a day late on this because of everyone’s travel, but the show must go on! Around the Network The discussion of advertising rates continued this week. Brad Arendt approaches the issue of click-throughs and identifies two issues: finding the proper tool to accurately count click-throughs and take down the ad when the limit had [...]

Lauren Rabaino published a constructive blog post a couple days ago on how the Mustang Daily is adjusting to a web-first workflow. From the looks of it, they’re asking and answering a number of questions that other news organizations will behaving further along the line: Who copy edits when? Does the section editor look at [...]

Eric Ulken has a forward-thinking post on OJR about how BusinessWeek is going beyond page views and unique visitors to define their audience. Internal metrics, things like the number of comments on a story, number of return commenters, and so on, could be exponentially more powerful if you managed them with a CRM database tied [...]

Max Cutler asks one of the big questions on everyone’s mind these days: how do you recruit technical talent to your student news organization? I’ve often been asked by my colleagues at the YDN what we can do to recruit more people to the web team. There are clearly people with the requisite skills on [...]

CICM deserves the hat tip for this one: earlier this week, The Daily Illini, a student newspaper at the University of Illinois, launched a brand new website built from Drupal: You’ll notice immediately on the home page some of the new features we have introduced. The goal was to provide more entry points to our [...]

Sean Blanda first reached national prominence when he announced his college newspaper Temple News would be moving off College Publisher to WordPress MU. Blanda was among the first to publicly champion this idea. Since then Blanda has become a leading voice in innovative online journalism. His latest project, BarCamp NewsInnovation Philly is bringing the best [...]

Max Cutler says that Courant News should be out by BarCamp NewsInnovation Philly, however: Courant will not really be ready for actual use or consumption upon its open-source-ing. The core set of functionality is essentially complete, which means you can build a news website which functions well for the visitors. However, we still haven’t had [...]

Host: Greg Linch and Daniel Bachhuber Guest: Steve Buttry, Information Content Conductor for Gazette Communications Summary: Greg and Daniel talk with Steve about the radical organization restructuring at Gazette Communications, what the specific changes will be and how it will affect operations, and how some of the lessons learned thus far might apply to student [...]

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