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 [...]
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College Media Lab: The Chronicle at Duke switches to Drupal
Lauren Rabaino and I spoke with a few Web staffers from The Chronicle at Duke University for the latest episode of College Media Lab (the renamed This Week in CoPress). Our guests were: Alex Klein (@alexklein), online editor Dean Chen (@deanchen), lead developer Chase Olivieri (@chasefoto), multimedia editor As you might have seen, Alex wrote [...]
College Media Lab: The Chronicle at Duke switches to Drupal [ 45:44 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2510)Tomorrow on This Week in CoPress: Previewing the Minnesota Daily’s Redesign
‘Tis the season for college media makeovers, and this week we’ll be discussing the soon-to-launch redesign of the Minnesota Daily — and getting a sneak peek. Last fall they switched to Drupal for their content management system and now they’re looking to build on that with a fresh coat of paint. Listen live as Online Manager Son [...]
Ask Courant News About Their New Django CMS
Clarification: Courant News is being developed as a side project of Max Cutler, Robert Baskin and Paul O’Shannessy — independent of the Yale Daily News. It will eventually become the Yale Daily News’ CMS. Tomorrow at 5 p.m. Eastern (Tuesday, May 5th) Emily and I will record a new episode of This Week in CoPress [...]
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This Week in CoPress: Advice from the Pros
Hosts: Greg Linch and Emily Kostic Guests: Howard Owens (@howardowens), publisher of The Batavian, Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) of The New York Times, and freelance writer Jonathan Fitzpatrick Summary: Howard Owens and Brian Stelter discuss along with Jonathan Fitzpatrick discuss how to train a web savvy staff, how to wain your readers off the print edition [...]
This Week in CoPress: Chris O’Brien and The Next Newsroom Project
Host: Greg Linch Guest: Chris O’Brien, Project Manager at The Next Newsroom Project Summary: Greg talks with Chris about the Next Newsroom project, an initiative to create a new home for The Duke Chronicle and determine what the “next” college newsroom should entail. Chris discusses how the idea came about, the process leading up to [...]
Thoughts after Revenue Two Point Zero: You Need a Revenue Office, Not an Ad Department
The background College news organizations need to move beyond advertising. Now. Hold that thought. Some background: The topic of generating revenue to sustain news organizations has begun to consume my thoughts about journalism. There are a number of reasons why, but this mostly came after a little meetup last Saturday in DC called RevenueTwoPointZero (Rev2oh [...]
CoPress core team welcomes a new member: Emily Kostic
We have a new core team member: Emily Kostic! Emily, whose title will be editorial associate, will work on the CoPress blog and This Week in CoPress podcast. One of her ideas is to the make the podcast more participatory, possibly by using BlogTalkRadio, recording live shows and allowing listeners to “call in” with questions [...]
This Week in CoPress: Whitney Rhodes and Connect2Mason
Host: Greg Linch Guest: Whitney Rhodes Summary: This week’s episode is an interview with Whitney Rhodes (@wrhodes), former director of Connect2Mason, a convergence news site Rhodes started last year at George Mason University. Rhodes discusses how the site came about and how it operated. She also offers advice to student news organizations, encouraging them to [...]
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