Twelve students have been named to the first CU Student Advisory Board to the Boulder Daily Camera and the Colorado Daily. The group was formed to assist and provide ideas and feedback about the Boulder newspapers’ digital, mobile, and social-media strategies — and how the local news providers can better serve and appeal to the young-adult demographic. >>>
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CU-Boulder Journalism students were out in force covering this year’s 4/20 event. While NewsTeam students used traditional digital video cameras and big tripods, two reporting students used considerably smaller devices to record and live-stream video of 4/20 happenings, demonstrating the capacity for small devices to perform significant journalistic feats. >>>
Is Pinterest a useful tool for documenting a significant news event, such as the 2012 CU-Boulder 4/20 marijuana-law protest and “smoke-out” event? CU reporting student Meggan Murphy attempted to find out and on April 20 published a “4/20 at CU-Boulder” Pinterest pinboard featuring curated photos mostly from her fellow reporting students. >>>
As part of a partnership between two CU-Boulder reporting classes, DailyCamera.com, and ColoradoDaily.com, students reported on the 4/20 concert by Wyclef Jean, meant to distract students from smoking marijuana, using CoverItLive, a live blogging platform. This was one of two live blogs produced by students as part of their 4/20 digital coverage. >>>
As a component of a partnership between two CU-Boulder reporting classes, DailyCamera.com, and ColoradoDaily.com, students reported on 4/20 marijuana-protest developments off and on campus using CoverItLive, a live blogging platform. This was one of two live blogs produced by students as part of their 4/20 digital coverage. >>>
In partnership with DailyCamera.com and ColoradoDaily.com, 18 students from two reporting classes at CU-Boulder followed 4/20 marijuana protest-day developments using digital-reporting equipment and techniques. Their reports as well as others’ show how the day played out using Storify. >>>
Development of the emerging TrustIt Labs system for analyzing news websites’ overall credibility is making progress. The code base has been migrated from an internal repository into the public eye. Far from finished, the current state of this open-source project reflects all of the hard work expended on designing a robust modular platform for continuing Internet news-source credibility research. Here’s an update from the system’s chief architect. >>>
CU-Boulder journalism students, and reporters at the student-run CU Independent, have a powerful new tool for seeking out unusual and difficult-to-find sources to aid in their reporting: the Public Insight Network. CU is now the fourth university in the U.S. to become an academic partner of PIN. >>>
With news comments, is it frequent commenters who degrade the conversation?
Some preliminary analysis of user comments on news articles from a newspaper website that later shut down its commenting system brings up the question of whether it’s the frequent commenters who lower the level of conversation and introduce abusive language, or the occasional commenters. >>>