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Our choice of the best links of the week are now at the top of We Clicked On (via the CoPress Publish2 Newsgroup): Rebooting The News #13 – Excellent discussion about how news coverage is already rebooting itself in the context of Iran, and the “newsroom as a cafe” concept gets discussed (and recommended). Gary [...]

Our choice of the best links of the week are now at the top of We Clicked On (via the CoPress Publish2 Newsgroup): 2.8 Release Jazzes Themes and Widgets – Daniel: New version of WordPress! Includes improvements to themes, adds multiple widgets, and offers more flexibility with taxonomies. Rise of the Data Scientist – Joey: [...]

With more and more student journalists thinking about graduate school, there are many factors to consider in making the choice. In a rapidly changing industry, the options can seem a little daunting. In fact, this list was originally intended to be the “Top 10 Online Journalism Graduate Programs,” but further examination found that, well, a [...]

Our choice of the best links of the week are now at the top of We Clicked On (via the CoPress Publish2 Newsgroup): Facebook news application source code open to college news sites – NewsCloud has open sourced a Facebook application specifically for student news organizations. The application reportedly incentivizes activity around the news org’s [...]

The big news this week is that Facebook, arguably the most closed-off social networking site on the internet, will allow users to log into the site using OpenID credentials given to them by other Web sites. As ReadWriteWeb states, New Facebook users will now be able to create Facebook accounts using their Gmail credentials and existing [...]

The most fascinating news this week was a huge change that is coming to the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism with the recommendation of all incoming freshman journalism students purchase either an iPod Touch or iPhone. These tools are likely to completely revolutionize the importance of mobile technology and take MoJo training to a [...]

A round-up of the student news organizations running Django in April 2009 as part of our end of the school year retrospective. The Maneater Your name (or the Web Editor’s name): We have two online editors. Currently, I [Justin Myers] am the online development editor and Esten Hurtle is the online content editor; after Tuesday’s [...]

The big news this week was BarCamp Philly on April 25, which a majority of CoPress attended. The day was a great success – filled with insightful conversations and great networking. Where else will find new media thinkers all in the same room trying to solve the problems in the industry? If you missed out [...]

Hosts: Greg Linch and Emily Kostic Guests: Lauren Rabaino, Web Editor and Marlize van Romburgh, Editor in Chief of The Mustang Daily Summary: Lauren Rabaino and Marlize Van Romburgh swap stories with Greg and Emily as the four discuss each of their college newspapers transitions to WordPress. Subscribe: iTunes | RSS

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A round-up of the student news organizations running WordPress in April 2009. Temple News Web Editor’s Name: Dave Isaac How Often Do You Publish (Online): Daily How Often Do You Publish (Print): Weekly What is the most interesting feature on your Web site? We have unique section pages Size of Staff: 24 Size of Audience [...]