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Call for website (co-) editors

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Best wishes, Newspaper & Online News Division members planning to attend the AEJMC annual conference next month in Montreal.

As usual, the division’s Web editor will not be there in person, a lamentable state of affairs given the opportunity this blog-style WordPress site provides for on-the-spot “digital-first” reporting.

For example, last year we used a tag-team approach to create photo pages for the conference and an “Events” menu at the top of the page. It worked — but it would have been much less time consuming for someone on-site with WordPress experience.

(Adding photo captions and identification in real time would be one major improvement of doing photo pages “live” from an event. HTML/CSS experience can make for more varied page layouts, but is not essential.)

If you have interest or experience in such things and want to help the division live up to the “and online” we added to its name a few years ago, please contact division head Leslie-Jean Thornton, add a comment to this post, or send me a note at stepno.com

Among other things, we have postponed choosing a new more mobile-device friendly site design in hopes of getting more folks involved in that decision and the operation of the site. Our aejmc.us site administrator, Randy Reddick, can explain how easy that redesign process is, choosing from a variety of more modern page “themes” or layouts.

WordPress tools have evolved rapidly. For example, this item was composed and posted with the Android WordPress app on a two year old smartphone.

When the time comes, I will be happy to explain, help, coach, advise, or bow out completely, but I do hope someone more active in AEJMC events steps forward to add to the division’s online presence.

Retiringly,

Bob Stepno

Mild-mannered Newspaper (etc.) Division Web editor since…
was it really 2003?!
Division archives: aejmc.net/newspaper including
the 2004 Toronto convention.
and more.

Did we have a blog back then? Yes, as an “aej” category in my personal blog — on a private company server that “went away” a few years ago: Peek into my 2004 archive


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