Posts Tagged ‘UWire’

UWIRE 2.0: Simple Design, Stressing Content Sharing First

Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , on April 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

UWIRE 2.0 is dressed down.  It seems to be stressing function over form, content to enable sharing of content among its student press affiliates without extra features or grander plans (for now).   As College News Network co-founder Dave Hendricks wrote in a recent preview piece, the logo is different and the site now operates [...]

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Exclusive: UWIRE Set to Relaunch After Six-Month Hiatus

Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , , on March 29, 2010 | 7 Comments »

UWIRE is back. The predominant, temporarily dormant student press content sharing service will once again be live online- most likely later this week or early next week.  According to Tom Orr, UWIRE overseer and general manager of partner site Palestra.net, it is a soft launch focused on steadily reestablishing UWIRE as the main pipeline for college [...]

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What Pay Walls, Meter Schemes Mean for College Media

Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Amid the gravity-defying hype centered on all-things-iPad (it really won’t have a USB port??), a more important journalistic drumbeat continues to sound.  As Rupert Murdoch, Steven Brill, and most recently the New York Times have confirmed: Pay walls or metered pricing systems for online news content will soon be coming to a high-profile Web site [...]

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Huffington Post to Launch College News Section in February

Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , on January 10, 2010 | 6 Comments »

BIG NEWS within collegemediatopia: The Huffington Post will launch a college news section in the middle of next month, according to several trusted sources. The section’s foundation will be news pulled with permission from established U.S. student media outlets, most prominently college newspapers. – The idea is basically UWIRE without the content sharing: It’s a high-profile, one-stop [...]

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College News Network: The New UWIRE?

Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It is the story of the student press so far in fall 2009: UWIRE’s vanishing act.  It happened without warning- and lots of questions remain.  What happened (and is happening) behind the scenes?  Is its MIA status temporary or long-term?  What does it mean for oft-shared-never-shy student press content previously featured and available for poaching on [...]

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Journalist Tells J-Student: Get Out While You Still Can! :(

Posted in Future of Journalism, Journalism, tagged , , , , on May 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »

It is official: Journalists are telling j-students to STAY AWAY from the profession, for their own sake.  In a new “Help Wanted” blog for UWIRE, recent j-grad John Sutton writes that a former internship mentor is less-than-keen on his enthusiasm for joining the newspaper biz: –  Even one of my primary contacts in the job [...]

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Student Journalist Spotlight: Meredith Shiner, Duke Univ., UWIRE 100

Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalist Spotlight, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , on May 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Meredith Shiner is an über-sports-hound and Chi-town gal at heart.  In her words, “As an unapologetic White Sox fan who grew up in the northern suburbs of Chicago, my high school superlative was, ‘Most Likely to Start a Brawl at a Cubs/Sox Game.’” – As a sports reporter, columnist, and editor at The Chronicle at Duke University, Shiner [...]

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UWIRE 100: Honoring College Media Cream of the Crop

Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, tagged , , , , on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

99 + 1.  1,000 – 900.  10 x 10.   300 / 3.  Any way you add, subtract, multiply or divide it, the answer is the same: 100.  It is fast becoming the most famous number in collegemediatopia, especially when attached to UWIRE, an evermore iconic brand name.   – The 2009 edition of the [...]

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Conservative, Progressive Student Columnists Sought

Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, tagged , , , , , on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Four college j-students with either progressive or conservative political leanings are being sought by UWire to become nothing less than “the voices for their generation.” — UWire’s statement: “We’re looking for thinkers. Only students who can clearly articulate and defend their strongly held beliefs need apply.” The basics: Two columns or more per month, and [...]

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Daily Bruin First College Paper to Endorse Obama

Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »

According to UWire, The Daily Bruin at UCLA is the first U.S. college newspaper to support Barack Obama’s presidential bid in the general election, a selection that editors write was obvious:   [R]eally, was there any other rational choice? . . . The last thing we need is a maverick like Gov. Palin swapping hockey-mom tales [...]

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