A Brief Hiatus. The Return to Blog.
Things got a little busy this past semester. [Ed. note: I'll say they did!]
My brief stint as Editor in Chief of The Daily Campus has been wonderful. I set out with a few goals, and thankfully we accomplished nearly all of them.
This was one of the best semesters we’ve had in quite a while. Our readership is up. Reader discussion on our website, the opinion page and in other places has increased. We redesigned the website (with more changes occurring on the summer). We did more hard-hitting stories about subjects that impact students.
Perhaps the only thing we didn’t do was change our newsroom production flow to a web-first mentality.
While we did break several stories online (more examples here, here, here, here and here), the print product was still first in the hierarchy.
That’s not a change you can make overnight, of course. And I still haven’t figured out how to make a web-first approach work without copy-editing stories to the point of mass redundancy. Hopefully our new EIC, Jessica Huseman, can figure out how to accomplish this goal.
I have great faith in her; she’s already on the ball and gearing up for our summer issues. She’s got next semester’s staff tied up; she’s hired a couple of freshmen apprentices; she’s looked at making changes to the website and the print product’s layout. Also new? A Monday, Wednesday, Friday print schedule. No longer will we have to suffer through a five-day wait betwixt Friday and Tuesday! It’s going to be marvelous.
What’s Next for Me?
I’m going to be a senior staff writer for the DC covering Student Senate (for the most part). I will also be interning at The Dallas Morning News during the fall semester.
Over the summer I will be working an in-depth story for next fall’s DC. It should be extremely interesting. I won’t give away the details, but I will express my appreciation for the IRS. Thank you, government-tax-agency-that-requires-disclosure-from-nonprofits.
You’ll have also noticed that I gave the ole’ blog a fresh new theme. Hope you like it.
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