The Daily Orange
| University | Syracuse University |
|---|---|
| Editor in chief | Stephanie Musat |
| Founded | 1873 |
| Headquarters | 744 Ostrom Ave, Syracuse, NY 13210 |
| Circulation | 9,000 |
| Web site | [[website::dailyorange.com]] |
| @dailyorange & @dosports | |
| CMS | College Publisher 4 |
The Daily Orange serves the community around Syracuse University in upstate New York. Founded in 1903 and declaring its independence in 1973, it incorporated as a non-profit 501c3 in 1995. The DO publishes Monday through Thursday in print and Friday, online.
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Staff
The in-house staff consists of around 30 student editorial employees, including the editor in chief. Editorial staff is broken into departments: Feature, News, Sports, Presentation, Photo, Art, Opinion, Management, and Evolution. The editorial staff usually comes into work around 7:00pm each day, and works till midnight or later. These student editors receive a weekly stipend of roughly $100 (varies by experience and position). Writers, photographers, and columnists are not paid.
The Daily Orange also employees a full time business manager and 10 ad reps who staff the office during the day.
Current Staff
- Exponent of the Evolution: Joey Baker, who also serves as the business director of CoPress provides advocacy and advice to The Daily Orange on adopting 'new media' techniques joey [at] copress .org
- Video Dude: Anthony Manciero. Interactive flash graphics, video editing, and podcast producer. donewmedia [at] gmail
- Editor in Chief: Stephen Dockery editor [at] dailyorange .com
- Managing Editor: Erin Conner and Stephanie Musat editor [at] dailyorange.com
- IT Director: Kaylen Thorpe it [at] dailyorange.com
- Business Manger: Pete Waack ads [at] dailyorange.com
dailyorange.com
The website was launched in late 2001 on College Publisher, and has remained on that platform with many redesigns. The paper also maintains a very active sports blog that employees video and beat bloggers to cover Syracuse Sports.
Social Media
You can find the Daily Orange on:
Blog Network
The daily orange hosts a WordpressMU blog network. Started for the sports department it has expanded to feature and will eventually include opinion and photo. TODO: expand this section
sports.dailyorange.com
sports.dailyorange.com is the launching point for the three primary blogs in the sports network Hoops, Lax, and Football. Each of these is maintained by the 3 beat writers of the sport. Other sports are posted on the main sports blog. Video is uploaded and posted via blip.tv.
feature.dailyorange.com
Runs the Sweet Talk sex blog and the Without Concentrate events blog.
Tech information
The Daily Orange blogs run on WordPressMU 2.6.5 (lastest version, as MU doesn't have 2.7 yet). The following plugins are used.
Plugins installed via WordpressMU
- admin management extended (no longer of use with Wordpress 2.7)
- askimet
- all in one seo pack
- bruekie's links widget
- cforms
- disqus comment system – enables facebook connect as well as other features
- excluded pages from navigation
- facebook comments - supposed to import comments made on facebook to the comments on the blog (not really working)
- google sitemap generator
- kb advanced rss widget
- shutter reloaded
- sphere related content – very cool for any news site
- wordpress stats
- ultimate google analytics
- wordpress database backup
- wordpress related posts plugins
Optional plugins that not every blog uses
- Allow embedded videos
- FeedWordPress – aggregates the main sports blog from the other sports blogs
- Sociable – does not install as a proper Wordpress MU plugin, so must be enabled individually (we make sure this is enabled on every blog)
- StatPress
- WP Super Cache
- Countdown Timer
- Twitter Tools
- Vote it Up
Stats
- Aprox. 10,000 pageviews/day
- Aprox. 20 posts/day
- Aprox. 1 video podcast/day
- Aprox. 3 blog posts/day
