Category: Student Contributions
Weekly CD Update: Fall Semester Begins
The Cavalier Daily newsroom has been buzzing with activity as fall production gets into full swing. Last week, the paper launched a new version of its mobile app, which can be downloaded for free on both iPhone and Android. Associated Press Standards Editor Thomas Kent Skyped in to speak with editors as staffers begin to […]
Creating a Digital-First Newspaper
This August, I had the great pleasure to attend the Management Seminar for College News Editors at the Grady College of Journalism at the University of Georgia. I was one of several dozen college newspaper editors there to learn from journalism and media professionals but also to learn from each other. A major theme throughout the […]
Crowdfunding New Distribution Boxes
It will not surprise you to know that many of the conversations we have in the office are not entirely serious. If they had been, we would have written a lot more articles about dining hall conspiracies, dating culture and squirrels. One day last semester, though, one of the crazy ideas we hit upon stuck […]
CD Hires Professional Ad Manager
The phone calls I receive before 9 a.m. rarely bring good news—a staffer calling me to tell me that today’s newspapers are yet to be delivered, an advertiser calling to tell me there is a problem with the quality of his print advertisement. As editor-in-chief it is my duty to handle all of those calls, […]