Found at Notes from a Teacher, something damned interesting:
A entire college student newspaper, the York Vision of the University of York, housed within a Facebook app.
Holy cow.
Link here - and I separate it out because you're required to give the app access to your Facebook information to view the paper (which is a major downside to this enterprise, for sure).
Of course, I believe you also have to be a Facebook member to view the paper, but I've not tried while logged out.
Flipping through the tabs, I see that it has a comparable amount of content to most other college dailies I've seen, though I don't know if it's a daily or not.
I do know that it's won a ton of awards, including being named the Guardian Student Newspaper of the Year for three years in a row.
I hold the Guardian in pretty high regard, so that's pretty amazing.
For those without Facebook, check out the Wikipedia page for some info on the paper.
Monday, February 11, 2008
[Media] One Student Newspaper Takes the Plunge - And It Appears to Be Working
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Holy Cow! They've hit upon the secret to running a profitable Web based newspaper. Use students who are paid little or nothing.
I bet the Sulzbergers and Grahams change their entire business models after reading this.
I appreciate snark as much as anyone, but that's crap and you know it. =)
No one said anything about a paid newspaper here, not even me. Don't pretend this is somehow evidence that paper journalism isn't in trouble.
And those students sound like they can out-write most of the NYT and WaPo staffs anyway. I'd take those York writers over Fred Hiatt any day.
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