Archive for April, 2008
What’s the best video equipment for a student paper’s first purchase?
(Preface: It’s not about the technology. It’s about the story and how you tell it. Technology is just a tool.)
Kevin Koehler, contributing editor at the Wake Forest Old Gold & Black, asked a question via Twitter Tuesday evening:
kev097 Need to recommend HD camcorder for newspaper today. Probably going with hard drive. Suggestions on models, accessories, [...]
Editor term comes to an end
It’s over. One year. Fifty issues. Many, many great memories.
Monday’s issue was my last as editor in chief of The Miami Hurricane. We made great strides forward this year in print and online, and I can’t wait until our new Web site debuts in August (yes, I still need to do an update post on [...]
"The Paper" used to be my paper
I learned last school year that MTV would be doing a multi-part “documentary” about my high school newspaper, The Circuit. I was skeptical of how the network that brought you “My Super Sweet 16″ would cover a journalism class/newspaper and I’ll let you be the judge of that.
Here is the trailer for “The Paper”
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Mad Journalism
We had an assignment a few weeks ago in my online journalism class to do a “video bio.” After two tries that involved yawn videos, I decided to try something completely different.
Sports Editor Matt Bunch joined me on April 7 to help shoot the third version. We put our heads together to get what you [...]
Nevada Sagebrush uses Twitter to liveblog editor selection meeting
The Nevada Sagebrush (University of Nevada Reno) liveblogged its editor selection meeting Saturday afternoon using Twitter.
The tweets were very comprehensive and, needless to say, flooded my Twhirl window for the duration of the meeting, but it was all good fun.
Thanks to Chelsea Otakan for directing followers of her Twitter account to the Sagebrush’s.
In an interesting [...]
