That’s right: we’re rebranding our flagship podcast, This Week in CoPress. Henceforth known as College Media Lab, the new feature will broaden our show’s focus and modify its schedule. (We’ve got a new bump, too!) The synopsis of this week’s episode is as follows: The rise of Twitter has been the talk of the tech [...]
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Better, stronger, faster: This Week in CoPress becomes College Media Lab
Troll Alert: A survey of commenting policies on news Web sites
In the age of interactive media, there’s an infinite opportunity for open discussion and idea sharing through comments. Turning these comments into a real conversation, however, is a challenge that news organizations confront on a daily basis. “We want to position ourselves as the center of community while at the same time driving out hateful, [...]
This Week in CoPress: Minnesota Daily redesign
After three months of hard work, the Minnesota Daily has a brand new design to improve its layout and usability. Son Huynh gives us his take on theming Drupal, changing a paper’s workflow and reorganizing news content. In addition, just last March, the Minnesota Daily teamed up with developers from NewsCloud to create a Facebook application as [...]
This Week in CoPress: Beginnings of a new year
Greg, Vanessa and Joey talk with Sara Gregory, Managing Editor for Online at the Daily Tar Heel, who helped to launch a new site on Drupal on Saturday and Will Davis, Editor in Chief at The Maine Campus, who brings light to their switch at the beginning of the summer from College Publisher to WordPress [...]



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