Watch Tom Kennedy, managing editor for multimedia at WashingtonPost.com, speak at the Beyond Bootcamp day 2 lunch (he will begin speaking soon after 12:20 p.m.).
Follow all the #bootcamp tweets:
Tag: media
Beyond Bootcamp kicks off at UM School of Communication
For the next week I’ll be assisting Rich Beckman‘s annual Beyond Bootcamp multimedia workshop, which he began a decade ago at the University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill.
Now that Rich is here at the University of Miami, he has brought the bootcamp to our School of Communication.
I’m going to try to blog as much as possible (particularly about the lunch and dinner keynote speeches), but the sessions are 12 hours each day and plus we the assistants shuttling people around, so I can’t promise a certain frequency.
What I can promise is tweets. Tweets galore! As long as my Tilt, iPod Touch and laptop batteries can all survive the long days, I’ll have updates. The School of Comm also has lots of outlets, so I should be ok.
Follow all the related tweets on this page:
www.greglinch.com/multimedia/beyondbootcamp
Please share the link and interact with bootcamp tweeters!
CoPress announces hosting plan for college newspaper Web sites
(Full disclosure: I’m the CoPress community manager, as well as a core team member.)
In a major move to help college newspapers thrive online, CoPress has announced a plan to move interested papers to WordPress and host the sites for a low monthly fee, plus a minor initial setup cost.
Or, if you’re just looking for low-cost hosting sans WordPress, that’s also an option. If you go that route, you don’t pay the initial setup cost.
What’s the advantage? Well, when you consider how much money your college news site could generate if you sold all the ads, and therefore took in related revenue, choosing CoPress could pay for itself.
Not to mention the fact that you have complete control over your site. That, in my view, is the most attractive reason. I oversaw The Miami Hurricane‘s move from College Publisher to WordPress last summer and wish CoPress existed at the time.
But, whereas our situation allowed us to make the move on our own, many school papers don’t have a server or the technical know-how to make such a move. Or, if you do, you can avoid a possible headache (particularly in transfering your College Publisher archives) with a little help from your friends.
That’s where CoPress comes in – we can do all that. Check out the post about the hosting plan.
For more information, visit the CoPress hosting page.
Leave a comment on the CoPress post or e-mail hosting@copress.org with any questions. Also, you can follow us on Twitter.
I’m gonna mess with Texas: Dallas Morning News online, here I come!
Who shot J.R.?
Was there a second shooter on that grassy knoll?
What will George W. Bush do in his retirement?
I intend to answer those questions and more this summer as an intern at The Dallas Morning News!
It’s an online internship, but I’ll primarily be working under metro as a multimedia reporter. Split between breaking news and other projects, my role will include writing stories, shooting video and doing other kinds of mischief.
This will be my fourth news internship – third at a metropolitan daily. I plan start soon after I graduate in May.
I can’t wait!
What should I see and do in Dallas?
Read about my experiences at The Miami Herald last summer:
- Internship: First day, first story at The Miami Herald
- Second Miami Herald video: Campers cook with the pros
- Two more Herald videos: Parkinson’s patients boxing and an unemployed couple
- Crazy cook Lenny makes for a fast-paced, fun video
- An obligatory end-of-internship post: Reflecting on my Miami Herald experience
Rich Beckman discusses how to reshape journalism education
I keep forgetting to post these notes, but tonight’s grand conversation on Twitter about journalism education reminded me.
Read the Twitter discussion: Twitter discussion about journalism education or see it as a Wordle visualization.
Context: Rich Beckman, Knight Chair in visual journalism at the University of Miami, gave a presentation on Nov. 11 about how we should reshape journalism education. He spoke as part of the first Knight Chair Lecture Series.
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