CoPress » links http://www.copress.org Building a Better Technical Ecosystem for Student News Organizations Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:46:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 CoPress http://www.copress.org/media/2009/01/copress_100x100_notrans.pnghttp://www.copress.org 100 100 Building a Better Technical Ecosystem for Student News Organizations 2006-2007 website@copress.org (CoPress) website@copress.org (CoPress) http://host.copresshosting.com/~copress/main/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgCoPress » linkshttp://www.copress.org 144 144 Building a better technical ecosystem for student news organizations CoPress CoPress website@copress.org no no We Clicked On: What’s the Revenue Model, Kenneth?http://www.copress.org/2009/03/20/whats-the-revenue-model-kenneth/ http://www.copress.org/2009/03/20/whats-the-revenue-model-kenneth/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:59:59 +0000 Adam Hemphill http://www.copress.org/?p=1208 This week has been a big one for journalism around the Web, with Monday morning’s bombshell being the introduction of InDenver Times. The announcement—specifically, their ambitious subscription-based revenue model—has reignited heated discussion of how news will be paid for. (It also led me to question the group’s online positioning.) Meanwhile, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer printed its last issue and will remain as a much smaller online-only publication. With these events, we’re that much closer to a complete reinvention of journalism as we know it. In other words, there’s no better (or more important) time to get involved.

Around the Network

Discussion in the forum was light this week, with Greg posting the ever-relevant question(s):

If you could completely restructure your news organization to better to adapt to the new world of journalism, how would you do it?

  • What would the process be?
  • How would individual roles change?
  • What would physically change in your newsroom?
  • Would your CMS change?
  • Would your business model change?

While there has been but one respondent thus far, it was the venerable Pat Thornton who argued that newsrooms need not be physical. Do you have thoughts? Drop by.

On the blog, we had three great posts with ten insightful comments (to date). The most recent content, a missive from Andrew Spittle about the Whitman Pioneer‘s efforts to push Twitter, prompted a detailed response from Joe Moore about his use last night of CoverItLive:

I think CoverItLive would also be good for breaking news that’s unexpected- it allows for multiple “producers” to post. This could be used in a lockdown-type of situation where journalists are located all over, and each have a different story to tell.

If you haven’t already, go check that out.

Finally, we’ve made some good progress this week on our still-fledgling wiki. Will Van Wazer, online editor at the Tulane Hillabaloo, added the story of their WordPress-powered site (with some very good plugin recommendations); Jackie Hai of Amherst Wire added a number of WordPress themes to the directory; and our own Joey Baker did some work to the WordPress plugins page.

As with any wiki, your contributions to ours would be very much appreciated and of use to the whole community. Share the love!

In the News

Last but not least, here are some links from the past week that you should check out this weekend (via the CoPress Publish2 Newsgroup):

Lastly, a quick one:

Have a great weekend!

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  • Watch The Internet has turned the world on its head because because it destroys the traditional definition of economy: "rational actors maximizing their value through the acquisition/distribution of scarce resources."
  • Listen Journalism Now podcast. Episode number two is describing a community much like CoPress.
  • Read Nationwide classroom No. 1: Writing for the Web Fantastic first steps to get your newsroom writing for the Web and breaking some habits that make sense in print, but not online.
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WordPress

We’re still actively searching for WordPress themes to use for our hosted Web sites (and of course, to recommend to you). That search has turned up this recent post on Running Design listing some top-notch news themes. We also came across a plugin called Pods that allows you to manage a database of information from the WordPress back end. It’s still a bit rough, but offers a lot of potential to news organizations looking to easily manage and present relational databases.

The Journalism World

The New York Times is running a blog-style debate from some of the top minds in journalism entitled Battle Plans for Newspapers. This seems like a constructive contribution to the debate over the future of newspapers, which has been raging anew since the TIME cover story on the topic last week. Jeff Jarvis has a good summary of all of the arguments so far in a post from earlier this week.

Further, Jim Stoval argues that the death of newspapers will lead to better journalism by giving rise the the digital newsroom—allowing journalists new and better ways of telling their stories.

Upcoming Events

Three things you must click on

  • Watch The Internet has turned the world on its head because because it destroys the traditional definition of economy: “rational actors maximizing their value through the acquisition/distribution of scarce resources.”
  • Listen Journalism Now podcast. Episode number two is describing a community much like CoPress.
  • Read Nationwide classroom No. 1: Writing for the Web Fantastic first steps to get your newsroom writing for the Web and breaking some habits that make sense in print, but not online.
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