Sex! College kids! Whopee!
10/2/09 2:17 AM
Yesterday, I had an interview with The New Yorker. I've been asked to write an article for Hustler. An article in our paper created a stir that was covered by Conan, Kimmel and Leno. Whoopi and Barbara dished about it on "The View." We've seen a drastic bounce in hits on our Web site. And, really, none of this should be happening. I have to say, when we wrote our article exposing Tufts' new policy barring sex while your roommate is in the room, the piece was something we laughed about, fleetingly considered editorializing on and then discarded as a reasonable move that didn't warrant too much attention. The Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) had put the rule in place just in case a student has a serious problem and wants something concrete to fall back...A long-overdue hello
9/25/09 2:18 AM
It’s taken me long enough, but I’m finally posting to the Newsroom. The copy editors’ pens are scribbling, the music is turned down a bit and we’re putting the final touches on our layouts. As I type this from our offices in the basement of Curtis Hall, we’re in the final minutes of our first full week of daily production. Things are looking a bit different this semester, especially in the Web realm, and we’re already pleased with the results. Our New Media Department, a new addition, is up and running smoothly in large part thanks to a very (frighteningly?) committed executive, Arlin Ladue. In Thursday’s Web edition, for example, we published a video with students’ reactions to the recent...Exciting news in the Tufts Daily blogosphere...
2/18/09 3:01 PM
At the Daily, we've spent this past year investing heavily in our online product. We've created interactive maps, twitter streams, timelines, videos -- and even a radio show Podcast. But not everything has been easy. Blogging, one of the most important aspects of any successful "new media" news medium, is difficult to implement in an organization full of print reporters. That's why we're excited to announce today that the Daily's blogosphere will be growing this semester to include two added blogs: one returning and one brand new. Yesterday, we reinstated "The Trend," our fashion blog, under the new editorship of Nikki Siegal. The blog, one of our most-updated last year, had fallen by the wayside after its past editor left the Daily. Nikki will be reviving it with a...The news, 140 characters at a time: Why we live-blog
2/10/09 11:59 AM
As most of Tufts was watching a pea-sized Tony Blair deliver the 2009 Fares Lecture at Tufts, I was staring at my cell phone screen -- and texting vigorously. As the Daily's "new media editor" (whatever that means) I had taken it upon myself to try out one of journalism's new fads: live-blogging an event as it happens. It's hard not to marvel at the technology that allows live-blogging to happen. As the lecture went on, I text-messaged updates to a phone account maintained by the micro-blogging site Twitter (which allows users to post updates in 140-character messages). A computer somewhere recognized my phone number and, within seconds, published my messages on the Tufts Daily's specific Twitter page. Instantly, a page we set up on TuftsDaily.com to track our Twitter...About that Joe the Plumber interview...
11/20/08 10:50 AM
The Daily has gotten quite a bit of unanticipated attention in the national media after Politico and Wonkette both picked up on an interview with Joe the Plumber that ran in our Nov. 11 issue. As this unexpected symbol of working-class America begins to fade away following the election, the interview we ran has been frequently caricaturized. The prevailing opinion, it seems, is that Samuel J. Wurzelbacher (aka Joe) must truly be desperate if he's speaking to a college newspaper. After all, he only recently monopolized an entire presidential debate. Perhaps the most blatant exaggeration came last night on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann." On the show, VH1's Christian Finnegan said, "Honestly, when you consider this interview's source, I don't think we're going to have J the...
