Archive for December, 2009
Eight things your college newsroom needs to change (if it hasn’t already)
I spent a lot of today thinking about my college career and how the times have changed. In particular, Central Michigan Life has changed a lot in the 4.5 years I have spent there as a young journalist. Philosophies are different, mentalities are progressing and new trends are taking form while old ones are dying.
This [...]
Central Michigan Life’s five Web goals revisited
Earlier this semester (on Sept. 16), I wrote a blog post detailing five major goals I had for Central Michigan Life’s new Web site and its integration into our newsroom.
For those new to my blog, we launched a redesigned cm-life.com on Aug. 20, switching from College Publisher to WordPress’s content management system, with the help [...]
When it comes to consuming news today, Google Living Stories gets it
Another encouraging development for today’s journalism is coming from Google.
I had a chance to check out Google Living Stories, still under development in Google Labs. It basically creates landing pages for some of the big topics locally/nationally, aggregating to news stories, displaying a summary and timeline of events and more. As of right now, it [...]
The short-lived Detroit Daily Press seemed doomed from the start
I get pretty excited anytime something new or innovative happens in the field of journalism. Recent example include Google Wave, the Texas Tribune and even AnnArbor.com, to an extent.
The Detroit Daily Press was not one of them. Click the link for further proof.
For those of you unfamiliar with the venture… brothers Gary and Mark Stern, [...]
