Tag: college newspapers
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A lesson in covering breaking news on campus from the Daily Iowan
The first thing I thought when I heard a tornado hit the Iowa City and the University of Iowa last night was “I bet the Daily Iowan has video up.” Sure enough, the student newspaper has a package of stories, plus some fantastic tornado-at-night video, including shots of students watching and describing the scene. The…
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This year’s big “duh”
Last year, the big “duh” was the raging irrational debate over whether blogs were journalism. Answer? If you write journalism, it’s journalism. If you record journalism, it’s journalism. Doesn’t matter what medium you choose to display it in, doesn’t matter if you’re the San Jose Mercury News or Grade the News or Rocketboom — it’s…
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Jerry Ceppos critiques the Spartan Daily
Jerry Ceppos, former news executive at Knight Ridder, is in the middle of a series of guest lectures and conversations in classes here at the SJSU School of Journalism & Mass Communications. Today, Ceppos is in the Spartan Daily newsroom, taking over the usual critique. Highlights… Make sure the stories in your paper connect to…
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Blog templates, online newspaper layout, server issues
Jeff Jarvis laments the lack of creativity in blog templates. It sounds like he’s looking for a front page with different categories, or a taste of different pages on the front page. I certainly like the idea – I know not everyone reading what I write about the JMC department or the Daily is necessarily…