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jesh. I went there. That is my college paper. And this disappoints me. It is a good reflection on the newspaper industry
by brezina 17y ago
jesh. I went there. That is my college paper. And this disappoints me.
It is a good reflection on the newspaper industry
- shaddi 17y agoEh. They're not all like this. My college paper pays their web folks, and their online editor actually took it upon herself to learn some programming so she could help out and understand the technical side. I was pretty damn impressed actually.
- adelevie 17y agoThat's very refreshing. What paper is this?
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- shaddi 17y agoUNC, Daily Tar Heel.
- DavisShaver 17y agowho was it? I remember there was a guy from the Tar Heel very involved with CoPress for a while.
- danielbachhuber 17y agoAndrew Dunn sat on our Board when we were a non-profit, and has been involved in the conversation about CoPress and college media since the beginning, but he's been the Editor-in-Chief
- shaddi 17y agoNot he, she. @saragregory
- adelevie 17y agoI'm still a student at Penn State and I used to work at that paper. The demanded skillset has increased while the stipend has cratered to zero. ps: I'm aware of your accomplishments. You make the Penn State startup community proud! Best of luck with Xobni!
- jsb 17y agoPart of the trouble is also that the decision makers in charge of adding staff and directing the digital version(s) of the Daily Collegian are not well versed in the technology themselves. They probably just copied and pasted the job post from last time and added in whatever new they needed, without knowing that these can be extremely diverse skillsets. "Let's make an iPhone app! Add it to the job description!" A lot of people think if you're "good with computers," you can do it all.
- jrwoodruff 17y agoThis is true of many non-college newspapers even. It's changing, slowly, but many of the people in charge today started when linotype machines were the norm, and had been for the last 6 decades. Newspapers are (still) not used to the modern pace of technology. My last job, the editorial system was more than 12 years old, and was still running on the original boxes 12-year-old dell boxes. Some had no USB ports, most had no sound cards.
- DavisShaver 17y agoI didn't know Xobni was made by a Penn State grad!