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Internship opportunity: Work with CICM to help push innovation in college media

January 8, 2009

Bryan Murley announces the CICM internship program:
“The pitch: How would you like to learn new media skills while having a positive impact on the college media environment? Join us for a semester of new media opportunity as the first intern for the Center for Innovation in College Media for Spring 2009.”
Sounds like a great opportunity [...]

CoPress launches hosted WordPress sites for student media

December 29, 2008

First, a bit of history: The first time I fiddled with a newspaper Web site, it was thespartandaily.com, after I walked into an adviser’s office at San Jose State’s School of Journalism & Mass Communications and asked something like “hey, any way to get an RSS feed off that thing?”
There was, and we did, and [...]

Snapshots from the future of online student news

October 15, 2008

Those of you (er, both of you) who have been following this blog since its outset (onset?) in February 2005 will recall that I first got involved with the actual production of online news at the Spartan Daily, the student newspaper of San Jose State University, where I remain a graduate student, believe it or [...]

Shifting priorities

May 10, 2007

If posting gets a little light around here, it’s because a few projects are working their way toward completion. One is nearly finished (more on that within the next few weeks) and another I just made a big change to get started on in earnest. There’s a third that’s on hold for a few [...]

RateMyProfessors.com – the ultimate student media vertical?

January 30, 2007

Two weeks ago, a little business brief zipped across my workflow radar at the office – mtvU buys RateMyProfessors.com*.
For those of you keeping up with the college newspaper business, last summer, mtvU bought College Publisher, by far the largest hosting and CMS provider for online student media.
Now, the Viacom subsidiary adds RateMyProfessors to its stable.
Awesome [...]