New staff structure emphasizes better web coverage
Over the years, I’ve felt like our staff organization has been pretty good. With a traditional setup of management team
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50 Ways To Boost Online Coverage
50 ways to boost online coverage from Jim Streisel Your news website has all kinds of cool possibilities for coverage,
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Use a Sports Beat System to Improve Coverage on Your Online News Site
One of the things I focused on revamping this past summer was how the sports teams were covered by my
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Keep an eye on it all: Using Hootsuite for student media
Good planning leads to good journalistic content. We know that. However, student media can be volatile, particularly because staff members
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Keeping it fresh online
This is the first post in our Make It Work series, where we ask staffs across the nation to share how
Read moreMake generating content part of the everyday job of a staffer, not an extra with the Rule of 3
My students have been online eight years or so and in that time they’ve probably had 300 different ways of
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Posting photos to the web easy, necessary
I have a new requirement on my staff this year: Everyone who submits a beat report needs to also submit
Read moreUse beat system to generate more online content
A police officer walks a “beat” so he becomes familiar with a neighborhood and the people in it. Similarly, reporters
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