Posts Tagged ‘Center for Innovation in College Media’

An excellent recent post by CICM intern Lauren Rabaino reveals in pie chart form what those of us following student media’s attempts at Twitter have long known: Is quality tweeting taking place?  Not so much. — Two-thirds of the 50 college media Twitter accounts Rabaino looked at are either solely serving as tiny-url advertisers for [...]

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Last week, I kicked off my list of “25 Random Things About Modern College Media,” putting a professional twist on the Facebook-centric personal list phenomenon that continues to give us insights into parts of people’s lives I had no idea I ever wanted to know about.  My dip into collegemediatopia randomness continues below, with Part [...]

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Bryan Murley, director of the Center for Innovation in College Media, recently announced an internship opportunity with CICM. Part of the call is below.  Interested students should apply quickly.  The deadline is January 18th! ——- ——- The pitch: How would you like to learn new media skills while having a positive impact on the college [...]

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A recent New York Times article on how college radio has “maintain[ed] its mojo” in a new media universe makes me mad.  I have no problem with the focus of the piece.  College student radio stations definitely deserve a shout-out.  I just think the NYT piece suffers from numerous cliches of vision and arguments that [...]

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Since its launch, the most-viewed posts on this little blog of mine have been those with the words ‘sex’ or ‘Obama’ in the headline.  Am I attempting to exploit the blogosphere’s fascination with the latter here?  Absolutely.  (Happy Thanksgiving!)   A brief rundown of college media’s Obama-mania on and around Election Day 2008:   An Associated [...]

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In a new MediaShift post, Center for Innovation in College Media Director Bryan Murley writes that student newspaper Web sites have made leaps and bounds from their “little more than shovelware” days that were even as recent as three years ago.    It’s a thoughtful piece, reflecting on the proactive journalistic push and general happenstances [...]

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I recently gmail-chatted with Bryan Murley, the director of the Center for Innovation in College Media, about the good, bad, and ugly sides of the continued success of the college *print* newspaper specifically.   The discussion came at his request, partially as a follow-up to my recent posts about college print papers’ (at least temporary) invulnerability to the [...]

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