Journalism
An ode to CoPress… and a look ahead
It was a little more than a year ago when, as online editor at Central Michigan Life, I was tasked with reconstructing cm-life.com from the ground up.
Since we were one of dozens of student newspapers that used College Publisher, we first considered upgrading from 4.0 to 5.0, which would effectively redesign the site and give [...]
Tip sheet for aspiring journalists, Twitter page and other things I’ve been working on
It’s been awhile since I updated this, so I thought I’d write up a snapshot of what exactly I’ve been up to the past month or so.
On the online front, we have an online editor at Central Michigan Life — Dave Veselenak, who was managing editor last fall. This makes it a lot easier on [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
