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The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. A "hack" is a tongue-in-cheek title that journalists give themselves

CoPress New question from Gregory Wilcox: What's the best way to display vertical images in a horizontal multimedia slider?
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Almost all the pictures I use to put in the media slider this week were vertical pictures. This is fine, but it does leave a lot of black space to the left and right in the media slider, and isn't very aesthetically pleasing.

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This year, Maine’s ballot contained a referendum to overturn a law allowing same-sex marriage. The turnout was immense (60 percent, more than double the usual turnout in an off year) and we wanted to make sure we had our own, unique coverage. The Maine Campus had been following the run-up to the ele...

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Ryan will explain the key concepts you should understand to design and implement UI for your apps. He’ll cover screen-level details like language and visual techniques as well as deeper topics like modeling and best practices for coding templates and helpers.

CoPress Four developers make up 25% of the Tribune's staff. This will be a site to watch.
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"This site is the .10 version of what we'll be six months from now," Stiles said. "I think the data product will be amazing when we get them all connected and when they start to talk to each other and when we can do dynamic visualization so you can get a map of the state and drill down into that cou...

CoPress What are ways in which we can better help student news organizations transition their web staff?
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We now have at least one school transitioning to new web staff and it’s something that we’re going to run into frequently in the future. As part of our efforts to keep knowledge from vanishing into the ether we’ll need a process of getting the new staff up to speed.

Lauren Rabaino  CoPress gets some love from Poynter.
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In many ways, CoPress illustrates what can happen when news outlets allocate resources internally rather than outsource Web development to outside companies, which can limit their ability to be creative, innovative and entrepreneurial. By moving this work in-house, journalists -- students and profes...

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CoPress Very good question from Andrew: Is there an existing plugin out there to power "Hot Topics" navigation based on tags?
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Is anyone aware of a plug-in out there that would work with the gazette theme where it would identify 5-7 popular tags and place those under the category bar?

CoPress Framework for assessing policies supporting future of journalism from savethenews.org and freepress.net #ncmc09

CoPress What's your reaction to how the Yale Daily News presents different type of media? Is it better to have content organized by topic or content type? What's your ideal multimedia browsing experience?
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This year at the YDN, multimedia is a big focus area for us, and thus we have been evaluating the best way to present multimedia content on our website. The first step was designing a new landing page to help people discover the great multimedia content our staffers are creating.

CoPress The CoPress team gets swapmed with questions after the "Going Independent" panel today. Everyone's eager and curious. ^LR

CoPress Conversation with Alex Klein, Dean Chen, and Chase Olivieri about The Chronicle's recent switch to Drupal. They discuss why Drupal, how they're building a web staff, and a new commenting system and policy
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Lauren Rabaino and I spoke with a few Web staffers from The Chronicle at Duke University for the latest episode of College Media Lab (the renamed This Week in CoPress).


















