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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 Collegiate Press collection of campus [...]

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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 [...]

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

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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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.
 
The paper’s lone wolf status made me [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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