CoPress

Our choice of the best links of the week are now at the top of We Clicked On (via the CoPress Publish2 Newsgroup):

• So Long Sections? – Joey sez: Amen brother! I’ve been saying this for years: drop the damn confusing, non-made-for-web nav bars on newspaper sites in favor of a web-first methodology.
• Last minute summer internship – Daniel sez: Still looking? Oshkosh Northwestern is wants a multimedia intern for the summer. Also related, the Seattle PI is looking for an intern/interns.
• Rebooting the News #10 – Daniel sez: Thought-inducing discussion about building a bug-tracking system for journalism. It would be really sweet to see something like this experimented with.
• Marketing Talks@Google: Fred Wilson – Daniel sez: Wilson talks about the internet and disruption in regards to the industries it has already hit, and industries it will hit in the future.

Around the network

Not too many conversations on the forum this week, although Joe Moore from The Snapper made a request for a weekly email for the people who don’t necessarily live on the web day in and day out. We’re taking this one to heart; this new email newsletter might be an evolution of our Google Group, or a standalone mailing. In some regards, this weekly post is intended to be a synthesis of what’s going on, but it sounds like other formats might be appropriate tool. If you have a preference, please indicate such in the comments.

On Thursday, Emily Babay, Jake Paul, Ethan Klapper, Jessica Luthi, and David Estes joined Andrew Spittle for the first session of College Web Design Camp 2009. He’s putting together a post on the sesh, along with a recording of their introductions, that should run early next week.

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.

Mark Briggs at Serra Media is taking a forward-looking approach to finding summer interns: have them pitch their projects. From the announcement:

Instead of a specific, rigid framework of duties, tasks, hours and pay that you try to ply yourself into, we’re inviting you to make a pitch on the assignment as if you were an entrepreneur. (Because you are.)

These are paid positions, but the amount we pay and the number of hours you work per week are flexible. So, instead of applications for a set position and fixed number of hours, we’re looking for pitches from people who are interested in working with us to develop our ideas and see their own brought to market, no matter their situation.

In short, in addition to working on the projects Serra Media has already started, interns will be afforded the opportunity and resources to initiate their own. One concern that comes to mind was about who has ownership of the project after the internship is over. Mark told me through email that he’s “open to discussing some equity share in addition to pay, too, though.” Deadline for application is May 22nd, 2009.