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On a cold day in Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University psychology professor Steven Pinker lifts a television above his head and then smashes it into the ground.  With the TV’s innards exposed, he proceeds to stomp on it and whack it repeatedly with a metal pole.

The uber-aggression aimed at this old media outlet served as the [...]

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One of the oldest student journalism ethical tightropes unfurled with a bit of a new media twist recently at Cornell University. As Cornell Daily Sun public editor Rob Tricchinelli explained in hsi excellent write-up on the situation:

Mike Wacker ‘10 is a Sun columnist whose ‘Wack Attack’ column appears alternate Wednesdays. Wacker recently arranged [...]

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“Ryan McDaid is very particular about the music he chooses for his radio show. One of the first requirements is that few can have ever heard it before.”

So begins a wonderful profile of student-run radio at Boston College, published by The Heights.  It documents the tale of two campus stations, including the FM-regulated WZBC, whose [...]

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When is a snowball fight also a social media revolution? On a wintry day in Washington D.C., one ambitious George Washington University undergraduate employed Twitter and The Georgetown Voice student newsmagazine to help spread the word about a snowy battle “that would eventually be referenced in one way or another by the Washington Post, LA [...]

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The Optimist student newspaper at Abilene Christian University can be consumed in print, online, via iPhone, iPod touch, and soon enough . . . on the iPad.  Student staffers and an ACU faculty and staff support team are optimistic that the paper will be the first iPad-friendly student publication.

As MacNewsWorld reports, “Designing a publication for [...]

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On Monday morning, The Huffington Post’s College section launched amid great hype and an introduction by the blog’s namesake.

In the words of Arianna Huffington, the section “features blog posts from students, professors, and academics on all things collegiate- from the high-minded to the just-for-fun- as well as the great issues of the day. . [...]

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In Josh Shannon’s words: “I wanted to be a journalist long before I ever knew I wanted to be a journalist.” He has long saved newspapers from  historic moments in contemporary history (including presidential elections and the start of the Iraq War) and his own journalism history (including reporting clips), leaving one of his bedroom [...]

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The battle at Virginia Tech over the student newspaper’s allowance of anonymous online comments is far from over.  (Read past posts on this story here and here.)  The tactics now in play- an increasingly dubious blame game, pulled advertising, and, ironically, “professional mediation.”

The latest Roanoke Times report (please read, it will make your eyebrows raise [...]

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College media’s backbone has cracked.  CoPress, the student-run Web hosting service and all-purpose journalism think-tank, has folded a bit more than a year after its much-heralded arrival within collegemediatopia.


In the closure announcement posted on its site earlier this week, founder Daniel Bachhuber writes with elegance and appreciable candor about the realities of running an organization [...]

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Update: Huge thanks to Sara Gregory at the Daily Tar Heel for providing the following clarification on this post:

“I don’t think ESPN should have linked to dailytarhole.com when talking about what the Chronicle does rivalry-wise. The Daily Tar Hole Web site is different from the Daily Tar Hole spoof the Duke Chronicle does each year. [...]

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I recently came across an interesting audio interview featuring Davis Shaver and Evan Kalikow, two of the undergrad gurus behind Penn State University’s “unruly news blog” Onward State.  For those who might forget, the pair and their PSU new(s) media machine earned a prominent shout-out in a mid-January Chronicle of Higher Ed. piece.  The lead: [...]

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Eight Northwestern University students. A “cheap pizza joint.” Spirited conversation about a shared love of art and architecture. An idea for a publication whose aim would be nothing less than to “provide a forum for greater exchange among an expanding community of students who devote their time to studying, thinking and writing about art.” [...]

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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 for lots [...]

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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 student researchers [...]

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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 [...]

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