University of Oregon
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The University of Oregon (UO) is a public, coeducational research university in Eugene, Oregon, United States. The second oldest public university in the state, UO was founded in 1876, and graduated its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. The Carnegie Foundation classifies the University of Oregon as a "high research activity" university. Richard W. Lariviere is the current president of the university. The University of Oregon receives much of its funding from the UO Foundation, an independent not-for-profit organization.The Oregon State Legislature established the university on October 12, 1872 despite funding woes.
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Research: If it bleeds, it leads — online, but not as much in print
Scott R. Maier and Staci Tucker of the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication studied how stories played in the print and online editions of The (Minneapolis) Star Tribune and The Seattle Times, as well as the online-only … Read more.
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Steve Buttry: Students already consume news digital-first; student media should follow suit
We asked an array of people — hiring editors, recent graduates, professors, technologists, deans — to evaluate the job j-schools are doing and to offer ideas for how they might improve. Over the coming days, we’ll be sharing their thoughts with you. Here’s Steve Buttry, digital transformation editor for Digital First Media.
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Engelberg: ProPublica Wants Broader Base of Small Donors
Raising money, gaining audience, having impact. Despite a $10 million annual budget, 34 reporters, and partnerships with multiple major news organizations, ProPublica faces similar sustainability issues as many startup publishers. ProPublica's managing editor (set to become editor-in-chief early next year), Stephen Engelberg, spoke with a couple dozen journalists at the University of Oregon's Turnbull Center in Portland last month.
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Student Journalists Go Global, Think Locally in #Olympics Coverage from London
Amid the thousands of professional journalists gathered in London for the start of the Summer Olympics will be a handful of journalism students with the unusual opportunity to work in school-sponsored teams to cover the high-profile games.
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New study shows how newspaper inaccuracies transcend journalism cultures, national borders
In 1936, journalism professor and former magazine editor Mitchell Charnley published the first accuracy audit of American newspapers.
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What media companies could learn from a student newspaper
It’s become obvious by now that many newspaper companies are struggling when it comes to making the transformation from print to digital. Shutting down the print version on certain days — as Advance Publications and Canada’s Postmedia have recently done with many of their titles — and putting up paywalls are seen as desperation moves, part of a forced march towards digital made as a result of financial distress.
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5 Lessons From The Oregon Daily Emerald's Digital Reinvention
The web address: future. dailyemerald. com. The one-word header atop the homepage: Revolution. And the tagline just beneath it: "The Oregon Daily Emerald, reinvented for the digital age. ".
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Why We Killed Our College Daily Paper for a More Digital Future
After 92 years, the University of Oregon's newspaper will end its run as a Monday-to-Friday operation in June. Yes, it's the end of an era, and we're sad about that. But it's also the start a new era, the digital one. Next fall, we will replace our traditional newspaper with a modern college media organization, Emerald Media Group.
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How One Reporter Ditched His Laptop and Covered a Conference with an iPhone, iPad
I had the requisite snazzy shirt and tie, but I showed up at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, without my laptop computer and without my camera. I had decided to go all mobile.
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Technology Journalism: The Jobs Are There; the Journalists Are Not
BARCELONA -- If journalism is a profession in trouble, you would never know it from the newsroom at the Mobile World Congress.
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