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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 the report, the final report and where the project goes from here.

Related: Weekly Forum Discussion – Restructuring your organization

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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 media.

Related: Weekly Forum Discussion – Restructuring your organization

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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 emphasize breaking news, multimedia and social media to succeed online. Rhodes now works as assistant new media editor at the Courier-Post in New Jersey.

Related: Weekly Forum Discussion – Restructuring your organization

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Host: Bryan Murley

Guests: Brad Arendt, Boise State Arbiter; Kevin Schwartz, Daily Tar Heel; Max Cutler, Yale Daily News; Joey Baker, Daily Orange

Summary: A comprehensive introduction to the current state of online newspaper monetization. Most student newspapers make less than 10% of their overall revenue from online, and the limitations seem to be a lack of infrastructure and inventory. The Daily Tar Heel has had success with Heels Housing, an interactive student housing guide, and Max Cutler recommends Google Ad Manager over OpenX because of its relative ease of use.

Related: Forum discussing strategies for monetizing online

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Host: Greg Linch

Guest: Andrew DeVigal

Summary: Today’s episode of This Week in CoPress is a conversation with New York Times multimedia editor Andrew DeVigal, who previously worked with student media at San Francisco State. DeVigal gives advice to student news organizations regarding how they can improve their multimedia content and therefore their Web site, from video to infographics.

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Host: Bryan Murley

Guests: Suzanne Yada, Kelsey Proud, Lauren Rabaino and Sarah Wood

Summary: #collegejourn is a weekly Sunday night conversation about college journalism that originally started on Twitter a couple of months ago. This past Sunday, the organizers hosted a discussion called “Bring-a-Prof” and the intent was to establish ways in which J schools across the country can “better prepare students for the real world.”

Links:

• Bring-a-Prof wrap-up notes

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Host: Adam Hemphill

Guests: Anthony Pesce, Miles Skorpen, Joseph Agreda, Max Cutler, Justin Myers, Rick Martinez, David Estes

Summary: Excerpts from a roundtable discussion among student developers from across the country regarding Django-based content management systems (and a Ruby On Rails system from FIUSM). The entire conversation is available as a MP3 download.

Links:

• Populous Project
• Ochs
• Nameless CMS
• The Maneater
• Gazjango

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Host: Bryan Murley

Guests: Jackie Hai and Richard Caesar, editors of the Amherst Wire.

Summary: Bryan talks with Jackie and Richard about the Amherst Wire, how the project was started, how their website operates, and a recent UMass student media summit.

Links:

• Amherst Wire
• Market Meltdown 101
• Jackie Hai’s wrap-up of the UMass student media summit.

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Host: Bryan Murley

Guest: Rich Gordon of Northwestern University

Links: Newsmixer

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Hosts/Guests: Greg Linch, Joey Baker, Albert Sun

Summary: Three members of CoPress’ team spoke on a virtual panel as part of BarCamp NewsInnovation at the University of Missouri on Feb. 24. Joey Baker, Greg Linch and Albert Sun discussed the importance of collaboration and innovation as they related to college news organizations, in addition to other topics such as open source software and CoPress itself. The trio fielded questions from the dozen participants at Mizzou, as well as from as many as 40 live viewers on Mogulus, where the virtual panel took place.

Links:

• CoPress channel on Mogulus (archive of the video)

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