As undoubtedly many student newspaper staffers now already know, the main servers for the uber-influential and widely-used College Publisher online hosting service suffered a major security breach in the middle of last week. – As a trusted source confirmed to me, “The site was hacked Wednesday night and people started deleting database and archive files [...]
Archive for February, 2010
College Publisher Suffers from Malicious Hack Attack
Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged College Media, Journalism, New Media, Online Journalism on February 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Optimist Student Newspaper First to be iPad-Friendly: Huge Step or So What?
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged College Journalism, College Media, College Newspaper, iPad, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper on February 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The Optimist student newspaper at Abilene Christian University is promoting itself as the first campus publication worldwide that will be iPad-friendly. – As the U.S. News & World Report‘s fantastic Paper Trail blog noted in the post that broke this story: “The gadget will be available in 60 days, and a team of faculty and [...]
Huffington Post College News Section, Behind the Scenes, Part 2: A Chat with Jose Antonio Vargas
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, New Media, tagged College Media, Huffington Post, New Media, Student Newspaper on February 2, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Jose Antonio Vargas can claim one slice of a team reporting Pulitzer Prize. His j-work is credited with inspiring a documentary film on HIV/AIDS in DC. He has taught a university j-class called Storytelling 2.0. And as The Huffington Post‘s technology and innovations editor he writes a blog on Technology as Anthropology. Simply put, this [...]
Huffington Post College News Section, Behind the Scenes, Part 1: A Chat with Leah Finnegan
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged College Media, Huffington Post, New Media, Student Newspaper on February 1, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Leah Finnegan’s motto about the glasses she sports daily: Go big or go home. The former Daily Texan editor in chief has similarly large ambitions about impacting the college journalism scene nationwide. She has taken a leave of absence from j-grad school at Columbia University to spearhead the launch of a College News section for [...]
