My Christmas list addendum
Innovation in College Media added to my Christmas wish list. (Thanks to Rebecca MacKinnon for the pointer.)
Two I have added to my own list:
3. That every reporter become multimedia literate. Whether it's handling a digital still camera, capturing audio with a digital audio recorder or shooting video, the cub reporters need this training when they start their careers in student media. And we can also show them how to put those multimedia bits into digital stories that extend their printed words.
4. That college newspapers become college news communities. Connected with a move away from shovelware, I'd like to see a commitment to beefing up the community aspects of the news site. It's hard to build a community with a piece of paper. While it may not be easy to do so with an online news site, it's worth a shot. What a great thing it would be if student newspapers became one of the few sites students automatically visited every day to see what's going on and participate in the conversation about their campuses. (I'd apply this to newspapers, period.)
