Ryan Sholin

Tag: student-media

  • Which newspaper will drop its print edition first?

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    Wired News prediction for 2007: “A major newspaper gives up printing on paper to publish exclusively online.” Howard Owens doesn’t think so: “Ain’t happening. There’s still too much revenue tied up in print and not enough online. A major newspaper — I’m taking this to mean a major metro — couldn’t support it’s current news…

  • How would you create an online community at SJSU?

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    Daniel Sato, online editor of the Spartan Daily student newspaper at San Jose State University, is trying to come up with a way to let readers vote their own stories up the charts, to tackle the twin problems of there being little sense of community at SJSU (online OR off, in my opinion) and organizations…

  • More on the online skills study that made me say Wow

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    Rich Cameron at the JACC blog reacts to the finding that college experience with CMS tools, HTML and Photoshop will help j-school students get jobs in online news: “Those papers that post PDF only or use non-content management systems are cheating their students. College Publisher is the cheapest, but not only content management system available.…

  • Reinventing, rebranded and reloaded

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    Bryan Murley of College Media Advisers and the Reinventing College Media crew have, um, re-invented themselves as the Center for Innovation in College Media. From the send-off post at the old site: “This new Center will serve as a resource to college journalists and their advisers by sharing information freely online and by providing practical…

  • More on student media server options

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    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…

  • The Spartan Daily is blogging

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    Meanwhile, back at the Spartan Daily, SJSU’s student newspaper, Daniel Sato and Neal Waters (I’m guessing they both had a hand in this) appear to have taken a few days off from their redesign of the online edition of the Daily to set up a WordPress blog for the paper. Sports Editor Andrew Torrez live-blogged…

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

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    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

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    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,…

  • New campus media blog

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    Check out CampusByline, a new blog tracking student media across the country. “I think that students can do top-notch journalism (I’ve witnessed it) and I believe that there’s a need to highlight the positive work being done. With that in mind, I wanted to start this blog. It’s going to start out small, at first,…