One of the more interesting sessions at the Associated Collegiate Press conference earlier this month featured high-energy Callie Schweitzer, editor in chief at Neon Tommy. As Schweitzer noted a couple times, Neon Tommy is not a gay porn website, but one of the most-read college online publications going. It’s attracting a lot of visitors...
The Commuter, LBCC’s student newspaper, has a new look to its website. Seven students overhauled the site this summer while working on their Cooperative Work Experience credits. Among their objectives were to: Give the site a fresh new look. Take advantage of more design and content options available through WordPress. Make it easier for...
The Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association will hold its annual Collegiate Day journalism workshop and awards program this Friday, May 7, at Linn-Benton Community College in Albany. More than 100 college journalists from around the state are expected to attend the event, which will include four journalism workshops and presentation of awards in the Collegiate...
Fellow TED fans … Another one of our favorites, “What Would Google Do?” author Jeff Jarvis, just made his debut talk to TED. (He said the video will be posted in a week or so.) Based on Jarvis’ notes posted on BuzzMachine, it’s an interesting speech on education, media, innovation, Google, collaboration … and...
Where once college journalists competed against the pros to see who could best shine a spotlight on what was happening on campus, it now appears they may have to beat all to themselves. An interesting new story on Huffington Post notes that cutbacks in mainstream journalism means one of the areas that isn’t getting...
Add these to your list of tips to improve your writing. These come from 10,000 Words, one of my favorite journalism sites. In addition to improving your writing, Mark Luckie presents these ideas to capitalize on concentration: Eliminate distractions Write down ideas when you have them Use a better spellchecker Tame the Web Use...
I can always count on 10,000 Words by Mark Luckie to reinforce the blogging lessons my students are learning this term in News Reporting and Photojournalism — post often, check your spelling, add links… So today Luckie has seven reminders for those new to blogging, or those who’ve been at it awhile but may...
Ben McConnell put it this way: “Facebook fan pages are the future.” He was talking specifically about marketing, networking, serving customers. I’m thinking, “Facebook fan pages are the future … of media?” What gets me thinking about this is the fact that the college newspaper I advise, The Commuter, attracted more than a hundred...
One of the biggest challenges that young writers face is simply getting into the habit of writing. In my classes at Linn-Benton Community College, I require my students to start a blog (to see some of the results, look to the right). Why do I do this? Because it forces them to come up...
It’s the next best thing to a great journalism textbook. Wait, I think it may be better in so many ways… Mindy McAdams has compiled her 15 terrific posts that make up the “Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency” into an elegant one-stop PDF. She goes from reading and creating blogs to editing audio and...
