Through a class assignment I had the pleasure to dispense and assess, my students recently clued me in to a website especially popular among female college students. The site: Betches Love This. The gist: “[I]t’s a perspective on college life with a debatable level of satire written about and for young adult women. . . .”
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Website Popular Among Female Students: Betches Love This (@betchesluvthis)
Posted in New Media, Story Ideas, tagged Betches Love This, Pinterest on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
College Media Mad Money #3: Where Do Students’ Recreation Sports Fees Go? (@TheLantern #sports)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Story Ideas, Student Newspaper, tagged College, Journalism, Ohio State, Recreation, Sports on February 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Students at Ohio State University pay a combined $14 million in student fees each year that go toward funding OSU recreational sports, a recent report in The Lantern confirmed. How is that money spent exactly? Umm, well, OSU officials are not exactly sure. In an investigation that is almost stunning for the confusion it caused among admins., Lantern staff writers Thomas Bradley and Sarah Stemen were given numerous runarounds that boiled down to one basic sentiment: There is no current organized, itemized list outlining how the rec fees are spent.
College Media Mad Money #2: How Much is the Stuff in Students’ Backpacks Worth? (@CityCollegeNews)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, Story Ideas, Student Newspaper, tagged Backpack, College, Journalism, Money on February 16, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Apparently, the adage is simple: It’s not the backpack, but what’s in it, that counts. A recent survey by staffers at City College News, the student newspaper at Minneapolis Community and Technical College, determined that students on average pack items into their backpacks daily that total more than $500. As CCN staff writer Nancy Humphys notes, “Losing a backpack with textbooks, a cellphone, laptop computer and wallet with cash, ID’s, bus card and credit cards can add up to a large financial loss to a student.”
College Media Mad Money #1: How Much of Your Students’ Meal Plans Are Wasted? (@DailyTarHeel)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Story Ideas, Student Newspaper, tagged College, Daily Tar Heel, Dining Hall, Food, UNC on February 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A full quarter. One-fourth. 25 percent. As The Daily Tar Heel recently revealed in an wonderful, astounding report, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “25 percent of all meals bought through campus dining plans are wasted each semester.” In the write-up by Katie Quine, the high percentage prompts a student-admin. blame game: Students claiming they are forced into plans that almost force them to pay for excess food and the dining director arguing (as paraphrased by Quine) arguing that the “large percentage of unused meals can be attributed to students buying meal plans that don’t match their lifestyles.”
Prediction: Fashion Journalism Will Soon Go Viral Within College Media (@CollegeFashion @DailyTarHeel #style)
Posted in New Media, Student Newspaper, Journalism, College Media, Story Ideas, tagged Journalism, College Fashion, Fashion, Style, SMU on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My bold prediction: Fashion journalism will be the next niche to explode within collegemediatopia and j-programs nationwide. The immense popularity of the related industry, general student interest in the topic area, and the visual awesomeness of fashion that is uber-appealing in the multimedia journalism age will all spur a rise in related classes, minors, majors, grad programs, student newspaper features, full sections, and independent sites. One campus-specific style site that debuted this week: smufashionmedia.com.
10 Funny College Memes: Adderall, Dorm Bathroom Habits, High Tuition Complaints & More
Posted in College Media, New Media, Story Ideas, tagged College, Facebook, Memes, New Media on February 15, 2012 | 3 Comments »
As I’ve posted previously, the story of the month so far: college memes. Campus-specific memes are suddenly invading the Facebook streams of students at schools throughout the U.S., Canada, and parts of Europe. A rash of student media reports and social media chatter confirm that undergraduates’ online experiences are now hovering between “meme madness” and full-blown “meme mania.”
The Art of the #Tweetalong: Daily Evergreen Reporter Explains Real-Time Reporting Experiment
Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, Story Ideas, Student Newspaper, tagged Journalism, Police, Pullman, Tweealong, Washington State on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This past academic year, Stephanie Schendel, the cops and courts reporter for The Daily Evergreen at Washington State University, has participated in occasional “tweetalongs.” During late-night ridealongs with local police, she has tweeted live observations, providing a candid, witty glimpse of quirkier after-hours community goings-on.
Valentine’s Day Special: Pitt News Publishes Annual Sex Edition (@ThePittNews #sex)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalist Spotlight, Story Ideas, Student Newspaper, tagged Pitt News, Sex, Valentine's Day on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Macognone’s missive is a call-to-arms trumpeting the arrival of the latest Pitt News sex edition. Now in its fourth year, it has emerged as one of collegemediatopia’s most insightful and creatively-designed themed issues tackling sex and love.
Daily Kent Stater’s Doug Brown Reveals Administrative Cover-Up in $1 Million Donor Investigation
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Story Ideas, Student Newspaper on February 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Early last month, Daily Kenter Stater enterprise reporter Doug Brown reported on the past legal troubles of Jason Cope, an alumnus who was preparing to donate $1 million to the Kent State athletics program and have the school’s basketball court named after him. Brown, a Kent State University journalism master’s student, dove into the story after the paper’s web editor received an email from a stranger with a one-sentence tip: ”Google Jason Cope v SEC.”
College and University Meme Pages: A Starter Guide
Posted in College Media, New Media, Story Ideas, tagged Facebook, Memes, New Media on February 13, 2012 | 25 Comments »
As I confirmed in a post yesterday, campus-specific memes are suddenly invading the Facebook streams of students at schools nationwide. Building on its general popularity in recent years as a quick-hit form of entertainment and commentary, the Internet meme has gone explosively viral among the student set since the start of the month.
College Memes Madness: ‘Internet Picture Craze’ a Sudden Mega-Hit on Many Campuses
Posted in College Media, New Media, Story Ideas on February 12, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Campus-specific memes are suddenly invading students’ Facebook streams at schools nationwide. Building on its general popularity in recent years as a quick-hit form of entertainment and commentary, the Internet meme has gone explosively viral among the student set since the start of the month.
Chico State Student Newspaper Feature Focuses on Instagram (@TheOrion_com @Instagram)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, Story Ideas, tagged App, Instagram, New Media, Student Newspaper on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In a recent front-page story, The Orion at California State University, Chico, focused on the odd, increasingly addictive practice of “edit[ing] everyday images to look old-fashioned.” The app that has made such immediate aging possible: Instagram. Its ease of use and convenient sharing capabilities have made it a huge hit since its launch, raising related questions about its relative artistic merits and the ethics of altering what has been snapped.
Campus Restroom at Harvard Law Named After UC Berkeley Professor Who Donated Money
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Story Ideas, Student Newspaper on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In return for a recent $100,000 donation, Harvard University’s School of Law has named a restroom after a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. The Falik Men’s Room honors the prof. William Falik, whose last name Time Magazine confirms “is apparently pronounced exactly how it looks.” In a Daily Californian story on the unusual arrangement, Falik, a law school alum, confirmed the whole shebang was his idea: “I have a name that doesn’t go many places. I think it’s somewhat humorous to have my name outside of a men’s room.”
Daily Iowan Dance Marathon Coverage a Reporting Tour de Force (@TheDailyIowan #OneGoalOneFight)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, Story Ideas, Student Newspaper on February 9, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The Daily Iowan’s recent Herculean coverage of the University of Iowa’s Dance Marathon was a real-time multimedia reporting tour-de-force. By the numbers: 300 man hours of planning and reporting by DI staff. 50 published stories, along with scores of photos, a slew of blog updates and tweets, and a slate of videos. Roughly 17,000 hits to the DI website during the 24-hour charitable event, apparently a record amount. And, of course, the most heartening number: $1.3 million raised by the marathon’s participants to help child patients treated at the university’s medical facilities.
Daily Nebraskan’s Biggest Story This Semester: A Bed Bug Outbreak! (@DailyNeb #bedbugs)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Story Ideas, Student Newspaper, tagged Bedbugs, Daily Nebraskan, Journalism, Nebraska on February 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »
A bed bug outbreak at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has prompted a subsequent swarm of criticism from students aimed at campus housing officials. A rash of stories and editorials in The Daily Nebraskan charges UNL staffers with failing to inform students in a timely manner about the growing infestation and instead spreading misinformation and even telling student RAs to lie to their residents.
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