Saturday, May 17, 2008

Masters of the Internets


I wish we had the Internets when I was at Louisiana State, working on The Daily Reveille. Instead, we had four much-fought-over (and astoundingly primitive by contemporary standards) computer terminals.

What we had more of was ancient manual typewriters and yellow newsprint to type on. Oh yeah . . . and a slow-speed Associated Press teletype machine.

ANYWAY, the young'uns have the Internets nowadays, and it would appear that my old paper is mastering its (their?) use. I wish the Omaha World-Herald could say the same.

Here's the Reveille's award-winning tale,
from the pages of The (Baton Rouge) Advocate:
The Daily Reveille Web site, lsureveille.com, won a 2008 Eppy Award from Editor & Publisher magazine Thursday as the nation’s best collegiate Web site, said James E. Shelledy, a professor at LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication.

The other two finalists were the student news Web sites at the University of Arizona and the University of Indiana, he said in an e-mail message.

Reveille Editor Justin Fritscher, of Mandeville, and Managing Editor Kyle Whitfield, of Metairie, oversaw the push this year to add breaking news and video to the Web site’s content mix, Shelledy said.
ABOVE . . . us, at the Reveille, in 1981. I think we may have been drinking. Ah, college. . . .

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