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Hosts: Greg Linch, Emily Kostic, and Miles Skorpen

Guests: Max Cutler and Robert Baskin

Summary: A question and answer session with Courant News, an open source Django CMS for student news organizations. The idea to build a Django CMS specifically for student newspapers came from discussion at an Ivy League news conference last April when people saw that no one had a CMS with the feature set they needed. Max and Robert, along with Paul O’Shannessy, decided they needed to fill the void. The conversation covers a bit of the history, and then goes into the specifics of the CMS. For more information, please check out or add to the wiki show notes.

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Clarification: Courant News is being developed as a side project of Max Cutler, Robert Baskin and Paul O’Shannessy — independent of the Yale Daily News. It will eventually become the Yale Daily News’ CMS.

Tomorrow at 5 p.m. Eastern (Tuesday, May 5th) Emily and I will record a new episode of This Week in CoPress with Max Cutler and Robert Baskin, discussing their Courant News CMS project. Courant is an open-source Django CMS that Max has blogged about extensively on his site. We’ll talk about main features, the installation process, theme capabilities, and what their vision for the future is.

We’ll be hosting the call on Skype. If you wish to call in, please contact me with your Skype name or phone number at greg [at] copress [dot] org. You will be added to the call and be able to ask questions.

We’re trying this as a higher quality alternative to BlogTalkRadio. Let us know what you think. We’re also still looking at ways to stream it live, so please leave ideas in the comments. Thanks!

As always, the full podcast will be available here on the blog on Wednesday.

Hosts: Greg Linch and Emily Kostic

Guests: Lauren Rabaino, Web Editor and Marlize van Romburgh, Editor in Chief of The Mustang Daily

Summary: Lauren Rabaino and Marlize Van Romburgh swap stories with Greg and Emily as the four discuss each of their college newspapers transitions to WordPress.

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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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