Posts Tagged ‘Presidential Election’

National Student News Site NextGen Journal Shutting Down at Month’s End

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on November 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

NextGen Journal, the only national news outlet created for and by students that is currently live online, will be ceasing operations at the end of the month.

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As NextGen’s founder and editor-in-chief Connor Toohill wrote to readers earlier this week, “[F]or the last several years, the 2012 Election was our big ‘thing on the horizon,’ towards which we were consistently building.  Now on the other side, and with most of our projects and goals behind us, our Core team is growing older and busier. We’re nearing graduation, and some interests are changing.  This Core team has always driven NextGen, and right now, it’s becoming a bit harder for us to keep up.”

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According to Toohill, “The site will remain live, and all content published, but we’ll suspend daily publishing for the foreseeable future.”

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As I’ve previously posted, NextGen has been a unique journalistic tour de force over the past two years, providing news scoops and candid commentaries from student contributors at roughly 100 colleges and universities.  From it start, the issues tackled by the site have been diverse, voluminous, and almost always of high relevance to students.  Even more valuable, when major news broke, the site often served as the platform for the student perspective to be inserted into the larger narratives and debates.

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For example, amid the conversations– and celebrations– that erupted in spring 2011 in the wake of Osama Bin Laden’s killing, NextGen published more stories on more angles than any other student media outlet.  Toohill and his team also did a terrific job during the most recent presidential campaign.  As Toohill notes in his wrap-up post, “We ran articles on topics ranging from climate conferences to hip-hop classes, and e-readers to Election 2012. We interviewed Governors, Congressmen, and Presidential candidates; talked about our generation on a number of mainstream outlets, including MSNBC; and built up to a series of exciting projects during the 2012 election.”

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Best of luck to those who have been involved with NGJ, and congrats on an uber-successful online venture.

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Related

NextGen Journal Gives College Students’ Spin on Global Events

College Media Hall of Fame, Class of 2011: Connor Toohill, NextGen Journal Editor-in-Chief

Controversial NextGen Journal Piece: ‘Every Social Media Manager Should Be Under 25′

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Student Newspaper Obama Re-election Front Pages: ‘A President Prevails’

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 7, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Along with a number of stirring images and iconic front pages designed and published today by the professional press, the student press has delivered some memorable, historic page ones as well.

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Below is a screenshot sampling college newspaper post-election front pages, including from papers in battleground states and states in which a majority of voters did not support President Obama’s re-election plans.

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Please email or tweet me to add your front page to the mix.

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The Daily Tar Heel, University of North Carolina

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The Daily Princetonian, Princeton University

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The State News, Michigan State University

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The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan

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The Pipe Dream, Binghamton University

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The Ball State Daily News, Ball State University

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The News Record, University of Cincinnati

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The Loyolan, Loyola Marymount University

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The Appalachian, Appalachian State University

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The Loquitur, Cabrini College

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The University Daily Kansan, University of Kansas

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The Oklahoma Daily, University of Oklahoma

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Indiana Daily Student, Indiana University

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The Torch, St. John’s University

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The Oracle, University of South Florida

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The Daily Illini, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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The Daily Reveille, Louisiana State University

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The Observer, Notre Dame University

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The Cavalier Daily, University of Virginia

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The Collegiate Times, Virginia Tech

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The Daily Collegian, Penn State University

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The Minnesota Daily, University of Minnesota

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The Daily Nebraskan, University of Nebraska Lincoln

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The Daily Toreador, Texas Tech University

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The Columbia Daily Spectator, Columbia University

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The Daily Mississippian, University of Mississippi

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The Student Printz, University of Southern Mississippi

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The Daily Texan, University of Texas at Austin

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The Daily Iowan, University of Iowa

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The Daily of the University of Washington

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The Daily Campus, Southern Methodist University

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The Lantern, Ohio State University

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The Yale Daily News, Yale University

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The Daily Northwestern, Northwestern University

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The Daily Orange, Syracuse University

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Video: Most Students Cannot Name the 2012 Vice Presidential Candidates

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

To start, I must confirm: On the whole, students at the University of Tampa seem wicked smart, energetic about learning, and engaged with the world and breaking news.  That is why the video below is so sigh-inducing.

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Just before the recent debate between Vice President Joe Biden and GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan, a student in a multimedia journalism class of mine strolled around campus real quick with a flip cam, checking to see how much– if anything– students knew about the candidates.  He started with simply asking people for their names.  It did not go extremely well.  Check it out for yourself.

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One bonus video features students recounting the strangest foods they have ever eaten, including pickled pigs lips and a guinea pig.

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Obama Mania in College Media: A 2008 Election Recap

Posted in Broadcast Journalism, College Media, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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:

 

 

The post-election front page of The Daily Emerald at the University of Oregon.

The post-election front page of The Daily Emerald at the University of Oregon.

 

 

 

 

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Obama-mania Hits College Press!

Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on November 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »

One consequence of America’s historic election: The public has been gobbling up newspapers like collectors’ items.  CNN reported that post-election print newspaper editions nationwide sold out uber-fast, prompting some papers to even restart their presses(!).

 

College print newspapers also witnessed emptier-than-usual newsstands and stacks.  For example, the EIC of The Maneater at the University of Missouri blogged yesterday that spare copies of the paper were scarce.  “The news is hard to find today,” he wrote.  “Campus readership bins across campus are bare after last night’s elections.”  A screenshot of a portion of the paper’s front page is below.

 

The Maneater

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“Little Campus, Big Election”

Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , , , on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Election Day.  How much of an impact has the college press actually had on (potential) student voters?

 

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The Michigan Review collected thoughts from a few student journalists and individuals who love them.  Three highlights:

 

Ben French, general manager of U-Wire: “College newspapers serve as a major news source for students . . . across the county, which is why the Obama campaign has hosted several conference calls with college media outlets.  Even with falling newspaper readership, college newspaper readership rates are still in the high nineties. People are still picking up a newspaper on the way to class, grabbing a paper that someone left in their seat. College newspapers are able to gain access to college-aged consumers.”

 

Jamie Klein, Daily Nebraskan staff writer: “The press conferences have helped us bring this year’s presidential election closer to students. Seeing coverage in their student newspaper makes the election easier to grasp because our articles are focused to students and issues that students care about.”

 

The Review‘s own take: “College media writers are having their work syndicated by outlets such as CBS, Politico, and TMZ.com, and presidential campaigns have taken notice. The campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama have made young voters a priority and the Obama campaign in particular has worked to contact and engage college media outlets, despite the lack of numerical support to show that college students will respond.”

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College Papers Light on Endorsements in Battleground State

Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Virginia is gearing up to be an Election Day battleground between McCain and Obama, but endorsements from college newspapers in the state are basically nonexistent.  As The Charlottesville Daily Progress reported, papers at the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, James Madison, and Liberty University will not be publicly supporting either presidential candidate with an official editorial of endorsement.

 

What was most interesting to me is that editors’ decisions were made for a mix of reasons, including: a lack of consensus among the editorial board about which candidate was best suited for the job; a belief that student readers turned to the paper for local issues and not to “get a national fix of politics”; and a perceived lack of access that editors felt did not provide them with any special knowledge that they could impart about the candidates that voters did not already have.

 

My thoughts: First, if there’s no consensus among the board, write an editorial about THAT and what it might mean and how that compares to prez endorsements in the paper’s past.  Second, student readers may dig all-things-local first but the college rag can play a bigger part than you think in upping their national consciousness as well, so don’t shy away from tackling the macro stuff, especially when it’s this historic.

 

And for the record, two influential papers in the state, The Flat Hat at William & Mary and The Mace & Crown at Old Dominion, did go the endorsement route.  Both supported Obama.

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‘College Papers Back Obama, 63 to 1′

Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , , , on November 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »

According to U-Wire’s Presidential Endorsement Scorecard, college newspapers’ pick for prez is nearly unanimous: Barack Obama.  Editor & Publisher lays out the list of papers’ presidential endorsements, which favors Obama 63 to 1.  The lone college rag in the McCain camp: The Daily Mississippian at the University of Mississippi.

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The paper’s lone wolf status made me curious, so I tracked down the endorsement.  According to the Mississippian, in what editors noted was a split decision, McCain was chosen because it was felt his ”lifetime of experience” makes him more qualified for the office.  Additionally, the endorsement stated:

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We feel Sen. McCain’s experience in foreign affairs and his decision to not raise taxes on anyone of any class of society makes him the clear choice for president. Sen. McCain has a history of stepping across party lines; the same cannot be said of Sen. Obama.  Sen. McCain also has a record as an agent of change. He has promised to focus more on the issues of energy, climate change and excessive government spending, all of which need to be addressed in order for this country to effectively move forward.

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Live from Hofstra’s NewsHub, it’s Election Day!

Posted in Broadcast Journalism, College Media, Journalism, New Media, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

One college news media site I’ll be checking out on election day and I suggest you take a look at too: Nassau News.  It is run by Hofstra University j-students working within the School of Communication’s convergence-happy, new-media-tastic “NewsHub.”

 

As “NewsHub” team member and j-student extraordinaire Kelly Glista told CMM:

 

Having had the third presidential debate on our campus we were able to produce a live webcast using mogulus.com, as well as cover it live blogging throughout that evening. . . . [We] are planning similar coverage for Tuesday.

 

Glista will share a follow-up post later this week about the ins-outs-ups-and-downs of the group’s live online election coverage.  So stay tuned.  In the meantime, come Tuesday, vote early and then tune into “NewsHub.”

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Student Journalists’ “Campaign Coverage ’08″

Posted in College Media, International Student Media, Journalism, New Media, tagged , , , , on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

As election day nears, a college journalism initiative worth knowing: A team of students from the University of Utah and China’s Cheung Kong School of Journalism at Shantou University have been covering all-things presidential and political during the U.S. election season for an online endeavor they have dubbed Campaign Coverage ’08.

 

 

As the site describes the effort’s aim:

 

From gavel to gavel at both political conventions through Election Day, the Campaign Coverage ’08 team will file stories with over two-dozen media outlets in China and the United States. Hard news, human interest, opinion and election-year color, the team of international journalists from two starkly different political systems engaged in this historical undertaking will bring a unique and fresh perspective to political media coverage.

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