{"id":573882111,"date":"2011-09-08T22:39:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T03:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573882111"},"modified":"2011-09-09T17:34:38","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T22:34:38","slug":"alternate-headline-zzzzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2011\/09\/08\/alternate-headline-zzzzz\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternate headline: Zzzzz"},"content":{"rendered":"

“But this first night is always a long effort.”<\/p>\n

I said last night, around 11 p.m. If I had known better I would have written it differently.<\/p>\n

I would have written “It will be a long night.” The headline above this would have read “And by long night I meant …”<\/p>\n

And the text would have simply said “5:30 a.m.”<\/p>\n

Now, to be clear: I don’t mind. I’ve been tired all day, but that’s part of the job and I love the job. After a series of first-issue problems, trial and errors the new staff put to bed a nice first edition this morning. I wouldn’t have minded a few more hours of sleep before saying that, but that’s the price of education by experience some time.<\/p>\n

So about two-and-a-half or three hours of sleep this morning. And then today was our high school journalism workshop. <\/p>\n

We had two series of sessions this morning and then two more sets in the afternoon. More than 300 students from across the area joined us. <\/p>\n

Southern Living’s Kim Cross discussed their commendable series, Lessons from the Storm<\/a> as a study in the use of multimedia.<\/p>\n

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CBS-42 reporter and Samford grad Kaitlin McCulley talked about television packages:<\/p>\n

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The kids had a great day:<\/p>\n

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I had an afternoon session, where two of the staffers from The Samford Crimson<\/em> joined me. You can tell by their reaction that I’d just made a profoundly important point:<\/p>\n

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Anyway. After the workshop was concluded I taught a class on leads. It is perhaps one of my better lectures, which works out well since it is the first thing you read and an important component of a news story. That’s the first thing the journalism professors read when their students have created another issue of the campus paper. <\/p>\n

Speaking of the Crimson<\/em>, this was a big day. Sure, it was the first issue of the year. And it was delayed because of the storms that caused a campus-wide power outage yesterday. But, the paper returned to a tab size this year. <\/p>\n

And the issue looks nice, too. <\/p>\n

Also, we re-launched a new version of the Crimson’s website<\/a>, too. There’s a lot to come from this new design and the content management system behind it — we switched from College Publisher, which is somewhat limited, to WordPress. <\/p>\n

Here’s a screen capture of the old version:<\/p>\n

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And here’s the new version:<\/p>\n

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In this first issue we already have five feature stories, represented in those thumbnails below the main photograph. Below the fold the stories fall into a neat structure. There’s better comment moderation strength, ease of publication, a system I can teach to new students in under an hour and a very clean look.<\/p>\n

Now we just need to put ads on it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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