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College Media Lab: J-profs share ideas about content and revenue

In this episode of College Media Lab, Greg Linch and I spoke with two innovative journalism professors about the state of college media.

This week’s guests:

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McAdams

Mindy McAdams (@macloo) is the Knight Chair for Journalism Technologies and the Democratic Process at the University of Florida and the author of Flash Journalism. Mindy is known for online journalism, by way of her blog (Teaching Online Journalism) and her open-source teaching style.

Beckman
Beckman

Rich Beckman (@richbeckman) is the Knight Chair of Visual Journalism at the School of Communication at the University of Miami and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. Rich is known for multimedia projects and for training students with high-end skills.

A few of the topics from this week’s podcast are:

  • How college media organizations can innovate and improve their Web sites
  • Comments on college media
  • What each professor would do if they were the editor of a college news organization today
  • Increasing online and in-person engagement
  • Pros and cons of high staff turnover
  • Changing and sustaining newsroom cultures

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