I’ve been following Times Higher Education (THE) on Twitter for a bit now. It gives me something to read in TweetDeck when I drink my morning coffee (as it’s on London time) and provides an interesting window on higher ed issues in the UK and the rest of Europe. Since I started to follow THE, […]
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Get a chance to win a pass for the WorldViews Conference on Media and #highered!
UPDATE: Gene Begin from Babson has won the free pass. Congratulations, Gene! For the past 10 years the media industry and its coverage of higher education has definitely undergone a deep transformation. That’s one of the topics the Worldviews Conference on Media and Higher Education will delve into. Other topics include: The impact of social […]
Higher Ed Live: 30 minutes of weekly live streaming about the latest higher ed news and trends
Our little world of higher ed has finally its cable TV talk show – except it’s not on cable TV and it’s pretty good. It looks like Seth Odell (who works at UCLA and blogs at As Media Change) did it. After weeks of preparation Seth has launched a great new project: Higher Ed Live, […]
University Affairs launched its newly redesigned magazine and website
University Affairs, Canada’s publication about higher education (or post secondary education as it’s said up North), unveiled earlier today its new web and magazine redesigns. If you want to learn more about this combined redesign (very nice integrated approach between print and web by the way), go read this blog post by Leo Charbonneau. And, […]
The Christian Monitor will become web-only next April. Are higher ed news publications next?
I’ve been following the print vs web issue for some time now – as many of you, I’m sure. It’s a known fact that the newspaper industry is in big trouble. And, the decision for The Christian Science Monitor – a century-old paper – to go web-only, at the exception of a weekend magazine, is […]
Higher Ed Magazines: Gone Digital, Going Paperless?
My third UB column for 2008 is now available in the June issue as well as online: “Magazines: Gone Digital, Going Paperless?” You’ll find in this column 4 tips from several of your peers (including Karl Bates from Duke University and Bonny Griffith from Ithaca College) to get you started. With the help of this […]
Higher Ed Bloggers edit and fact check the Chronicle of Higher Education
Yes, you’ve read my headline correctly: bloggers editing and fact checking the main media outlet covering higher education in the US. So, what do I mean exactly? In the past weeks, two posts from two different higher ed bloggers have questioned some of the facts reported in two different articles published by the Chronicle. Andy […]
The State of Higher Ed Podcasting in the US: Thoughts, links and a recording
I had a very interesting experience this morning presenting a session about higher ed podcasting in the US to a room full of people at the University of Warwick in the UK. No long flight or dreadful jet lag required (but no nice sightseeing in the UK either :-). I did my presentation using WebEx […]
Book Review – “Perfecting the Pitch” by Benjamin Lewis: Toss your press releases and start to pitch story ideas to (new) media representatives
With the increasing popularity of this niche blog (and it’s not just my ego speaking, the web stats and Feedburner tell me that its readership has been increasing steadily) as well as my regular gig at University Business, I’ve started to receive more and more press releases and pitches from PR professionals. While a few […]
Don’t think the conversation is the message? Just look at how higher ed media have been going 2.0 lately
If you attended one of my sessions about Web 2.0, seen my presentation files or read my article published in the March issue of CASE’s Currents, you might have a vague idea of where I’m going with the headline of this post. But, if you don’t – here’s just a quick excerpt from the initial […]
4 questions to U.S. News & World Report about Morse Code, Robert Morse’s new blog about the college rankings
I first read about Morse Code, the new blog authored by Robert Morse, the director of data research for U.S. News & World Report behind the methodologies and surveys for the America’s Best Colleges annual rankings, on Andrew Careaga’s blog last Thursday. It appears that the blog was launched on May 15. As regular readers […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education goes 2.0 with online video reports by Jeffrey Young
In a previous post titled “Professor Wesch from KSU featured in a great video report from The Chronicle,” I raved about the first online video report produced by Jeffrey Young, Web Editor at The Chronicle: Produced by Jeffrey R. Young, the video report does an excellent job presenting Professor Wesch’s work at KSU as well […]
Professor Wesch from KSU featured in a great video report from The Chronicle
The Chronicle of Higher Education offers a great video report this morning on his blog as part of a post titled “An Anthropologist Explores Video Blogging.” Produced by Jeffrey R. Young, the video report does an excellent job presenting Professor Wesch’s work at KSU as well as his famous YouTube video about Web 2.0. Too […]
How higher ed journalists use the Web: Peggy Berkowitz, editor of University Affairs
While I tend to focus my posts on US higher ed institutions, I know that more and more readers actually work at Canadian universities and colleges. That’s why I’ve decided to interview for this series about higher ed media Peggy Berkowitz, the editor of University Affairs published in print and online by the Association of […]
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