As the Web Editor of my college newspaper and a blogger with a keen interest in online journalism, Innovation in College Media is a Web site that serves as an invaluable resource to me in my day-to-day life.
However, I’m shocked when I talk to other journalism students who work on their college papers that they don’t know about CICM’s valuable resources.
If I were lucky enough to receive the CICM internship, I would begin a serious outreach effort to encourage college journalists who may are not aware of CICM to take part in their new weekly features.
What features you ask?
One of the first things I would do as an intern would be to ensure that it is possible for interconnectivity to exist between college newspapers, so that information and techniques can be spread about more effectively.
Two ways to accomplish this are through using either Ustream or podcasts (or both, perhaps).
A weekly Ustream could be very useful. It could be a known, recognizable place where interested college journalists could get together to discuss any problems or concerns they might have in running a college newspaper and Web site.
Regular podcasts could be helpful too, as they could be a regular form where accomplished college journalists could be interviewed and their knowledge can be spread to others. The podcasts could even expand to include people from College Publisher or other organizations immediately related to college media.
The work CICM could do on their weekly features and outreach could prove that the future of CICM and college media is absolutely limitless.
This blog post was written in response to a blog post by Innovation in College Media announcing the CICM Spring 2009 internship.
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