CoPress

That’s right, Greg Linch has gotten hella hired and is upgrading to business class. (He’s sticking around CoPress as an advisor though.) Which means we’re now looking for an energetic, forward-thinking, and helpful individual to take his place as CoPress’ Community Ninja.

This talented, network-focused, person will focus their efforts on increasing the quantity and quality of interactions between student news organizations. It’ll be your goal to know of all of the different projects going on, who is working on what, and finding ways for them to work together.

We’ve got lots of tools for you to do this with too, including our social network accounts, forum, etc., and it would be wonderful if you can analytically track how well these engagement efforts are working.

Like the rest of the core team at CoPress, the position is not paid at the moment. The flip side, however, is that you’ll get to work with really smart people on a rapidly expanding project. We’re looking for a student who can commit between 15 and 20 hours/week.

Sound interesting? Send an email to apply@copress.org and we’ll hook you up with the job description and application. The position is open until filled.

As the school year winds down to an end, many news organizations are searching for the next online editor. If you already have your next online editor, then the summer is a perfect time for him or her to brush up on necessary skills that will make your news website flourish.

Finding the balance

Ideally, an online editor will have both the tech-smarts and the journalism abilities to present news content in web-friendly way. You can teach someone how to embed a video from YouTube or add a new article to a CMS, but teaching someone how to write a lead can’t be done through an hour-long training session. 

Splitting the job

Increasingly, the responsiblity of maintaining the website is more than a one-man show.

As Andrew Spittle suggested in the CoPress forum, the best way to balance the job is to split the web position into a web developer and web editorial position.  Editing articles in addition to training the staff for multimedia year-round leaves little time to focus on developing new features. 

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