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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: 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: 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: Bryan Murley, Greg Linch

Guest: Scott Karp of Publish2

Links:

Media Examples

Publish2

Link Journalism blog post by Scott Karp

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Host(s): Bryan Murley, Joey Baker, Daniel Bachhuber and David Estes

Guest(s): Anthony Pesce and Dharmishta Rood

Summary: A discussion about the development of the Populous Project – a Knight-funded college-specific content management system.

Links:

• Populous Project site

Up next: The relaunch of FIUSM.com with Rick Martinez

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Welcome to the second podcast from CoPress. Each week, we’re going to be talking with student journalists, professional journalists, and others about technology, innovation, college media, and the way forward.

This week, Albert Sun, web editor for the Daily Pennsylvanian, talks about developing the new entertainment magazine web site 34st.com using Drupal.

Three of the plug-ins Albert metioned in the podcast:

• http://drupal.org/project/cck
• http://drupal.org/project/views
• http://drupal.org/project/imagefield

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