Online News – Page 13

Teaching Online Journalism: Adding online skills to journalism courses

Sep 23, 2006

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Mindy McAdams on some simple (and some not as simple) ways to roll some online skills straight into your existing curriculum. Teaching Online Journalism: Adding online skills to journalism courses

Job: Develop WordPress blogs for the New York Times

Sep 20, 2006

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Ryan Sholin

in Media

[Ed. note: I normally stuff interesting job postings into the del.icio.us feed that runs down the right rail of this blog, or in your feed reader, but this one is too interesting not to point to from here.] The New York Times is hiring a WordPress developer. The job is posted on the PaidContent new…

The truth about online community building at newspapers

Sep 14, 2006

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Ryan Sholin

in Media

Let’s get something out of the way here. From an idealistic, do-gooder, journalistic point-of-view, building a community around/at/affiliated with your newspaper’s Web site is all about giving people a place to talk to each other, find like-minded individuals, debate, discuss, share, and participate in local and far-flung news. That’s great. In fact, it’s so great…

More on student media server options

Sep 11, 2006

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Ryan Sholin

in Education

Bryan Murley at Reinventing College Media provides a roadmap of server/hosting options for student papers, including those looking to stray from the College Publisher herd. There are pros and cons to each choice, and Bryan does a great job of laying out what you’ll need to know, who you’ll need to trust, and what you’ll…

Campaign 2006: Contributions to the Massachusetts gubernatorial candidates

Sep 10, 2006

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Ryan Sholin

in Newstangle

Maps mashup with campaign finance data. Drool. Campaign 2006: Contributions to the Massachusetts gubernatorial candidates

Reinventing College Media:Three people and a Trinity of Trends

Sep 7, 2006

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Ryan Sholin

in Newstangle

Nice concise trio of folks and concepts, with a few words about how student media are faring at each. Reinventing College Media:Three people and a Trinity of Trends

The fundamentals of structured data

Sep 6, 2006

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Ryan Sholin

in Media

Still wondering how to cram all these cool new Web-based tools and toys into your newspaper’s content management system? What, you mean it didn’t come with a database to manage all those user-submitted photos you’re getting through your MySpace page? Even if you’re not quite that friendly with the social-networking set yet, chances are you’ve…

How to Turn Multimedia Clark Kents Into Superheroes

Sep 6, 2006

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Ryan Sholin

in Newstangle

Good tips on how to get *started* as a Webbish reporter. There’s lots more that comes after this. How to Turn Multimedia Clark Kents Into Superheroes

The missing link for student newspapers: Software to support a continuous news desk

Sep 5, 2006

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Ryan Sholin

in Education

When the Spartan Daily made the transition to College Publisher in January, I was struck by just how driven by a daily print cycle an online publishing CMS could be. Why should it be that way? Why make online production dependent on your print stories being ready for publication? Why wait until after the print…

Vanderbilt student media site opens up to the community

Sep 2, 2006

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Ryan Sholin

in Education

In Nashville, Vanderbilt University‘s student newspaper has completely retooled and reimagined what a college media Web site should look like and what its purpose should be in the university community. InsideVandy.com is the result. Straight news and blogs written by the staff mingle with reader photos, stories, and blogs. The site is run with Drupal,…

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