The Student Newspaper Survival Blog

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-282341492009-07-06T05:44:02.348-07:00The Student Newspaper Survival BlogThis blog is about college newspapers and written by Rachele Kanigel, author of The Student Newspaper Survival Guide.Rachele Kanigelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17074676517923065699noreply@blogger.comBlogger174125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28234149.post-65371195601054851412008-11-20T02:50:00.000-08:002008-11-20T03:09:46.311-08:00St. Louis Post-Dispatch seeks social media intern

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is looking for an intern, but not just any intern. The position announcement calls for a "social media intern."Kurt Greenbaum, director of social media at the Post-Dispatch, posted the position on his blog Wednesday, noting that the intern will work with the online team to use "social media to publish content, engage our audience and encourage reader-generated news,

Rachele Kanigelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17074676517923065699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28234149.post-9497799626345665912008-11-20T01:47:00.000-08:002008-11-20T02:03:26.082-08:00The Next Newsroom Project completes plan

Chris O'Brien of The Next Newsroom Project reports that the board of The Chronicle, the independent, student-run newspaper at Duke University, has adopted the project's proposal for a new newsroom.The plan is available here.O'Brien, a business reporter at the San Jose Mercury News and Duke Chronicle alum, has served as the project manager for the endeavor. He reports that the concept approved by

Rachele Kanigelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17074676517923065699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28234149.post-20440571512616704242008-11-07T14:50:00.000-08:002008-11-07T15:09:21.371-08:00Journalism student names top 10 sites

Emily Kostic, a junior studying journalism at Rowan University, has put together a list of Top 10 Sites for Online Journalism Students on her blog, Journalism 3.0: The Future of Journalism According to a Member of the Facebook Generation.I echo many of her suggestions for sites every journalism student should read. Check it out.Kostic's blog itself is a good read for journalism students -- and a

Rachele Kanigelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17074676517923065699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28234149.post-77540155413673102332008-11-06T20:33:00.000-08:002008-11-06T20:49:17.116-08:00ACP creates gallery of post-election newspapers

Marc Wood of Associated Collegiate Press has put up a gallery of post-election college newspaper front pages. You can also view it as a slideshow.If you want to add your newspaper's Page 1 to the gallery, you can upload it here or email Wood at wood (at) studentpress.org.

Rachele Kanigelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17074676517923065699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28234149.post-16296307436470336832008-11-02T11:15:00.001-08:002008-11-02T11:59:39.420-08:00College papers overwhelmingly favor Obama

Barack Obama has garnered more than twice as many daily newspaper endorsements as John McCain, according to Editor and Publisher. But the results are even more lopsided for college newspapers: 65 to 1.Of the 66 college newspapers counted in the E&P tally, only one -- The Daily Mississippian at the University of Mississippi -- endorsed McCain.In its Oct. 28 endorsement, The Daily Mississippian

Rachele Kanigelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17074676517923065699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28234149.post-16780561332305515552008-10-29T18:17:00.000-07:002008-10-29T19:15:57.403-07:00A lousy week for journalists -- and j-students

KANSAS CITY - What a week to be at the ACP/CMA National College Media Convention! Here I am with all these eager young college students, many of whom harbor dreams of entering the field of journalism in the next year or two, and there’s nothing but carnage in the industry.As David Carr writes in The New York Times this morning, “It’s been an especially rotten few days for people who type on

Rachele Kanigelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17074676517923065699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28234149.post-22913557026406177982008-10-16T15:12:00.000-07:002008-10-16T15:40:52.595-07:00Study multimedia in Italy, N. Ireland this summer

In case you're wondering why I've posted so little lately, it's because I've been devoting a lot of time to negotiating an agreement between San Francisco State University and the Institute for Education in International Media to offer multimedia study-abroad programs next summer. The deal is done!In 2009 SFSU and ieiMedia will co-sponsor month-long programs in Urbino, Italy (June 30-July 30) and

Rachele Kanigelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17074676517923065699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28234149.post-35368596127582352542008-09-25T07:24:00.000-07:002008-09-25T07:44:10.707-07:00Rob Curley reports from the front of new journalism

Many wondered why new media visionary Rob Curley would leave the prestigious Washington Post, one of the pillars of old journalism, for the Las Vegas Sun, a little upstart in the desert. He explained why in a blog post last week."I’m more and more convinced every day that the Las Vegas Sun is the most interesting local newspaper in the nation — both to read and to work at," he wrote. For details

Rachele Kanigelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17074676517923065699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28234149.post-65855507018757853762008-09-17T07:17:00.000-07:002008-09-17T07:36:39.722-07:00Student Political Journalism Junkies to Meet in DC

The Institute on Political Journalism invites students to attend "Election 2008: The Press, the Presidency & Politicians," a two-day conference for collegiate journalists in the nation's capital. The Institute of Political Journalism is an arm of The Fund for American Studies, which was founded in 1967 "to help instill in young people an appreciation for the American form of government and the

Rachele Kanigelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17074676517923065699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28234149.post-76554089535792010792008-09-07T07:14:00.000-07:002008-09-07T07:32:55.030-07:00Column: Old media and new clash at NYU

Alana Taylor, a plugged-in, media-savvy, blogging journalism student at New York University, has an interesting column on PBS' MediaShift critiquing the old-school journalism education she's getting at the venerable journalism school.Taylor, a junior, is taking a class called “Reporting Gen Y (a.k.a. Quarterlifers),” which she says is one of the few new media classes offered at the school. When

Rachele Kanigelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17074676517923065699noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28234149.post-40196078162218674382008-09-04T10:26:00.000-07:002008-09-04T10:34:15.581-07:00Online News Association hosts job fair in DC

The Online News Association's 2008 conference in Washington, DC, will feature a job fair on Thursday, Sept. 11 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The job fair at the Capitol Hilton is a great opportunity for student journalists to network with professionals and learn about career opportunities in media. Among the companies that are scheduled to attend are NPR, Gannett and Tribune Media Services.The day will

Rachele Kanigelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17074676517923065699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28234149.post-19865499668800233312008-09-04T07:51:00.000-07:002008-09-04T10:01:25.536-07:00Update: Arrested student photographers released

The two University of Kentucky student photographers and photo adviser who were arrested on suspicion of rioting outside the Republican National Convention Monday were released without being charged Wednesday, according to an article in the Kentucky Kernel, the student newspaper.Student photographers Ed Matthews and Britney McIntosh and Kernel photo adviser Jim Winn were detained for two nights

Rachele Kanigelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17074676517923065699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28234149.post-90317753468065915762008-09-03T06:32:00.000-07:002008-09-03T06:58:20.377-07:00Kentucky Kernal photogs arrested at RNC

Two student photographers and the photo adviser for the Kentucky Kernel were arrested at the Republican National Convention Monday in St. Paul, Minn., on charges of felony rioting while photographing a protest outside the convention, according to the University of Kentucky newspaper.Photographers Ed Matthews, a senior at the University of Kentucky, and Britney McIntosh, a sophomore, and adviser

Rachele Kanigelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17074676517923065699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28234149.post-67264972115734845662008-09-01T10:42:00.000-07:002008-09-01T11:43:24.028-07:00Daily Reveille offers model hurricane coverage

If you want a great example of how a student newspaper can cover a major breaking news story as it unfolds, just check out The Daily Reveille at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.The newspaper is covering every angle of Hurricane Gustav, from the arrival of U.S. Army and National Guard units to the booming business at the local Domino's pizza restaurant. The staff has redesigned the

Rachele Kanigelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17074676517923065699noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28234149.post-43660864575226554032008-08-04T20:38:00.000-07:002008-08-04T20:54:04.701-07:00Dealing with potentially controversial content

Summer is winding down and it's time to get back to blogging!This week I'll be in Chicago attending the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and I hope to blog from there.On Thursday at 3:15 p.m. I'll be on a panel, "College Papers' Mission: Confronting Issues of Responsibility, Diversity and Press Freedom." Check it out if you're at the

Rachele Kanigelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17074676517923065699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28234149.post-19986650760995442302008-06-23T22:08:00.000-07:002008-06-24T07:18:31.756-07:00Mississippi student paper goes online only

The Spectator, the weekly student newspaper at Mississippi University for Women, plans to abandon its print edition and go online only in the fall, according to a news report."We want to make our students more employable," Dr. Marty Hatton, chair of the Department of Communication, told the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. Hanson said the online newspaper would use video and audio to enhance

Rachele Kanigelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17074676517923065699noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28234149.post-50953326586130878062008-06-23T11:26:00.000-07:002008-06-23T11:48:58.316-07:00Journalist maps newsroom layoffs

In case you haven't seen it, Erica Smith, a newspaper and multimedia designer for the St. Louis Post Dispatch has created Paper Cuts, an interactive map showing buyouts and layoffs in the newspaper industry.Though it's depressing (she counts 4,494 positions lost in the first six months of 2008 and more than 2,100 eliminated in the last seven months of 2007), it does give you a sense of which

Rachele Kanigelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17074676517923065699noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28234149.post-28667324676063323892008-06-11T07:08:00.000-07:002008-06-11T07:19:04.954-07:00Five more free design handouts

The Society for News Design has posted five more free, downloadable handouts on its Web site:Diego Carranza, Indigo: Technology and storytellingNigel Holmes: Charting do’s and don’tsTim Harrower: How to jumpstart a stalled designJosh Awtry, The Salt Lake Tribune: A reporter’s guide to content layeringCristobal Edwards, Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile: How to hold on to readersRemember

Rachele Kanigelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17074676517923065699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28234149.post-72697278282451874832008-06-10T17:50:00.000-07:002008-06-11T07:29:58.413-07:00Design handouts available for limited time only

The Society for News Design has posted on its Web site 12 free, downloadable handouts on design from the upcoming issue of Design Journal, the society's quarterly. The handouts, which make up a "training toolbox from the pros," will only be available on the site through June 15; after that you'll have to join SND to get them. The handouts come from visual journalism experts from all over the

Rachele Kanigelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17074676517923065699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28234149.post-47614915615202642672008-06-03T12:00:00.000-07:002008-06-03T12:27:05.279-07:00College students still read campus newspapers

While professional newspapers are grappling with falling readership, particularly among Facebook-crazed college students, student newspapers are still widely read by their target audience.That's the word from Alloy Media + Marketing, which just announced results of a readership survey of more than 1,200 college students from 550 universities across 50 states.The study found that more than

Rachele Kanigelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17074676517923065699noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28234149.post-57999226091035446692008-05-26T23:17:00.000-07:002008-05-26T23:21:32.795-07:00Survival blog takes summer break

The Student Newspaper Survival Blog is on summer break. We will post here occasionally throughout the summer but we won't be writing as regularly. Look for more complete coverage beginning again in September.You can continue to send news, examples of noteworthy student work and other tidbits of interest to student journalists to collegenewspaper[at]gmail.com

Rachele Kanigelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17074676517923065699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28234149.post-1256222147990790472008-05-21T19:32:00.000-07:002008-06-10T17:30:31.196-07:00UWire names 100 top student journalists

UWIRE, a wire service and career networking site for college journalists, has announced the UWIRE 100, a list of the top 100 student journalists in the country.The students were selected from 500 nominations submitted by editors, professors, advisers and colleagues from 132 schools."We created the UWIRE 100 because we knew we would never be able to just name, say, the top 20, or crown a single

Rachele Kanigelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17074676517923065699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28234149.post-14027308133606726642008-05-21T19:26:00.000-07:002008-05-21T19:30:09.220-07:00SPJ announces student awards

The Society of Professional Journalists has announced the national winners of the 2007 Mark of Excellence Awards. This year, collegiate journalists submitted more than 3,400 entries in 39 categories.“I encourage media executives who are looking for the next wave of high-quality journalists to pay attention to the winners of SPJ’s Mark of Excellence Awards,” Neil Ralston, SPJ’s vice president for

Rachele Kanigelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17074676517923065699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28234149.post-80394587705425081622008-05-13T22:11:00.000-07:002008-05-13T22:18:33.696-07:00ONA seeks student journalists -- apply now!

The Online News Association is looking for students to staff the newsroom for its annual conference.The conference is scheduled for Sept. 11-13, 2008 at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C.The ONA conference offers students working in the newsroom hands-on training, mentoring and deadline multimedia experience. In addition, student newsroom participants are given free registration to the

Rachele Kanigelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17074676517923065699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28234149.post-51357361864009169482008-05-09T00:27:00.000-07:002008-05-09T01:32:39.410-07:00Summer training opportunities for student journalists

Long time no post. Work and family responsibilities have drawn me away from the blogger's chair, but I'm back with some news.Summer is a great time for student journalists to take a break from the publishing grind and learn new skills. Several organizations sponsor training opportunities for student journalists. Among them:National Youth Journalism ConferenceJuly 9, 2008Washington D.C.Campus

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