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""Sometimes it is quite frustrating when the students run up against this kind of censorship," said John Kennedy, an assistant professor of communication and a former staff writer for the Boston Globe. "It's not unusual for a private college to exercise that kind of control. It has that legal right. But more progressive institutions understand that you want the students to try to replicate what they will face out in the real world.""
Sure, some journo student’s parent will likely subscribe, electronically acknowledging that their offspring is getting a byline and to encourage them in their craft. But, we’re talking about family members and not everyone else who will flock to free Google News to find Cowboy Nation material or to countless other relevant sites offering no charge access.
"Only a fraction of the O’Collegian online readership base must scale the pay wall– individuals not currently attending or working at the school who live outside the university’s “immediate geographic area” and who wish to view content more than three times per month. Beginning early this year, these non-local loyalists will be required to pay a “small fee” to continue browsing ocolly.com"
Brad Wilson at NC State U. put the student media photography manual online. Great template for ideas about photojournalism policies and also what you can do to put staff manuals online. Easier to update and saves printing costs.
Ryan Sholin grapples with the frontiers of student news online and notes a couple of new projects that are progressing.
Chris O'Brien has some great tips for you to innovate your newsroom immediately.
Hofstra's new media coverage of the election, from the students' view.
"To be at the forefront of this change, NYU Local has latched onto the unique nature of this untraditional metropolitan campus and given it a beat, a new edginess that the older school paper, Washington Square News, has not been able to do."
18 months work to reinvent the college newsroom at Duke.
"As of late last week, no students had submitted an application to be the next editor-in-chief of The Independent Florida Alligator, a top-notch newspaper with a rich history." Wow.
"Below is a brief list of what I’ve found to be timely, pertinent, and interesting recent reports from student and professional media that I hope you might be able to localize, adapt, or otherwise draw inspiration from for story ideas of your own" - Dan R
ACP's inaugural front pages from college newspapers.
The now incorporated CoPress, Inc. launched its first partner newspaper late last week. Check out the blog post to find out more.
Lauren Rabaino puts together some lessons learned from the Daily Mustang's blogging exercises.
Interactive package with video and information about each presidential candidate.
A copress blog post on a college media site redesign. worth a read.
A Flash-based "Best of" feature from Cal Poly. An idea of how to make that "Best of..." section spicier for the web.
Dan Ucko of the Poly Post looks to the future from the ACP conference.
"It started when a student misspelled the word "apostle" when writing the photo caption. When the caption was put through the editing software's spell checker, it was flagged, and the editor accidentally clicked the first word that came up on the correct
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