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Max, a developer, breaks down why the news industry needs developers, and why College Publisher represents 80% thinking. In part, Max is calls for more developers in the news business (yes please!), and in part he examines why opensource solutions are so desperately needed in this industry.

College media is a funny beast. It seems to lag about a year to three years behind the mainstream media. This applies web-first thinking, blogging, web site design, and monetization. So, this weekend, when the CoPress forum became an active discussion of CPM vs CPC vs CPD ad models, I couldn’t help but grin twice. First, because this [...]

10000 Words gives us a list of top college newsorg sites, more from the perspective of what content they offer than the design, but its good to see what some of the best are doing. Ideas: lots of infographics, blogs, and user interactivity.

Words of warning. The following post is hotly contested internally among us CoPress folk. Very likely this is controversial to the greater community as well. But at the risk of having people with pitchforks or angry twitterers show up at my door, I’ll go ahead and share my opinion. I’d like to propose a simple [...]

This is something the news tribe did not understand went it first went online around 1996. It saw the Web as a good way to re-purpose its content from the old platform; and while the Web can do that, the idea of re-purposing news content had a huge intellectual cost. It did not help the [...]

Three things you must click on

• Watch The Internet has turned the world on its head because because it destroys the traditional definition of economy: “rational actors maximizing their value through the acquisition/distribution of scarce resources.”
• Listen Journalism Now podcast. Episode number two is describing a community much like CoPress.
• Read Nationwide classroom No. 1: Writing for the Web Fantastic first steps to get your newsroom writing for the Web and breaking some habits that make sense in print, but not online.

Starting a business, even as a non-profit, can cost some money—or so we’ve learned here at CoPress. Our hosting project is aimed at giving schools fast, reliable service on a well-supported open source platform. We’re doing this because we see a distinct need in college media to move online in a meaningful fashion and we [...]

If your news organization has a lot of great content on blogs, but isn’t seeing that result in pageviews or engagement, here are a few tactics to bump them up.

We’ve just received some good feedback on our hosting plan and we’re happy to air our dirty laundry in front of you to explain why we think we’ve got a pretty solid plan in place.

If the newspaper industry is evolving toward a web first model, it’s got to figure out how to beat the 10% problem.