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...
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...
Having trouble building that “Web-first” mindset into your news-gathering operation? This CoPress slide show may be just what you and your staff need to get rolling … finally … It lays out a week-by-week to-do list and inspires at the same time. Here’s an example: Week 6-9: Really take control of live and breaking...
Summer may be a slow time on campus, but several LBCC journalism students are putting their reporting, writing, photography and other talents to work this summer at the Commuter. The online campus information and entertainment resource is marking its first anniversary this summer. The new staff is looking to add a variety of new...
On the eve of teaching journalism Spring term at LBCC comes a story, no, a plea in The Nation for an American future that includes a robust media that upholds the promise our Founding Fathers made by including “the press” in the First Amendment. It takes a while to get to the provocative stuff,...
In a conflict over governance of the University of Oregon’s student newspaper, the entire staff of the Oregon Daily Emerald has gone on strike to protest the actions of the newspaper’s board of directors. Here’s the latest from the Emerald Web site. Be sure to check out the lengthy list of comments as well....
Thank you, Bryan Murley, for your MediaShift update on one of my favorite journalism topics, the evolution of online campus media. In “College Media Has Come a Long Way Online” Murley provides links to a number of innovative online operations on campuses nationwide. It’s instructive to see what the next generation of journalists is...
Now that Election Day has finally arrived, where can you go for the latest results online? Reportr.net has compiled a list of sites and links to find out the latest in the race to the White House. And if you haven’t seen it yet, a must-see site is YouTube’s “Video Your Vote” Channel, which...
About a half dozen students from Linn-Benton Community College ventured to the SPJ conference — “Building a Better Journalist” — last weekend at the University of Oregon. What did they think? In addition to picking up various tips from the pros on reporting, interviewing and writing, they were inspired to do better journalism. As...
