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Archived Live Chat: Brian Donohue, Star Ledger

Recorded: Wednesday, Oct. 14 at noon ET

Brian Donohue, a journalist at The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J., recently wrote about what he's learned in the past 14 months while working on Ledger Live:…

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Added by Greg Linch on October 14, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

My entry for Publish2's "I am the future of journalism" contest

It’s hardly a modest proposal, but on Tuesday morning I submitted my entry for Publish2’s “I am the future of journalism” contest.

View and vote on my submission, which includes text and an audio slideshow.

Thanks!

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Added by Greg Linch on December 31, 2008 at 1:50am — No Comments

CoPress announces hosting plan for college newspaper Web sites

Beginning this spring, CoPress will host a few college newspapers on a virtual private server, helping them to run dynamic, independent Web sites built on open-source software.

Our first partners are F Newsmagazine, a magazine at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and The Whit, a weekly student newspaper at Rowan University in New… Continue

Added by Greg Linch on December 29, 2008 at 7:25pm — No Comments

Rich Beckman discusses how to reshape journalism education

(This post also appears on my blog, The Linchpen):

I keep forgetting to post these notes, but tonight’s grand conversation on Twitter about journalism education reminded me.

Read the Twitter discussion: Twitter discussion about journalism education.

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Added by Greg Linch on November 23, 2008 at 1:31am — No Comments

The Miami Hurricane to launch public beta of new site on Friday, Aug. 1

After months of discussing the new Miami Hurricane site on my blog The Linchpen, Twitter and other sites such as Wired Journalists and College Content Management, the public beta version of the new site will launch this Friday, Aug. 1...

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Added by Greg Linch on July 30, 2008 at 1:23am — No Comments

Blogging about blogging, parts one and deux

Below are a couple recent posts from my blog, The Linchpen, linking and summarizing other blogs blogging about blogging. Don't you just love meta-metablogging?

The first links to some insightful posts about blogging. The second looks at an interesting discussion about blogging that involves Howard Owens (who is linked in the first post), Mark Cuban and the… Continue

Added by Greg Linch on March 15, 2008 at 11:14pm — No Comments

A Wired connection

The annual WeMedia conference is being hosted at the University of Miami this week. I've done a few blog posts about it here.

For the opening session Tuesday morning, I saw a familiar face enter the auditorium. I went to Wired Journalists to check my suspicion and, alas, I was correct: it was Dave Cohn.

As the speakers talked, I starting following Dave on… Continue

Added by Greg Linch on February 28, 2008 at 1:35am — 1 Comment

Wanted: Resident Butt-Kicker (Thoughts on journalism education)

A topic I had been contemplating for awhile...

Wanted: Resident Butt-Kicker (Thoughts on journalism education)

Added by Greg Linch on February 22, 2008 at 10:35pm — 2 Comments

Top Ten List of Tips for Journalism Students

I compiled this list Top Ten List of Tips for Journalism Students - The Linchpen on my blog almost two weeks ago. I've gotten some good feedback, but wanted to expand the discussion.

What advice would you give to student journalists/journalism students?

Added by Greg Linch on February 2, 2008 at 12:39pm — 4 Comments