eHub
This is the elder statesman of the blogs I controlled in the newsroom. Established in 2004 as an experiment in online journalism, eHub has transformed from the earliest encarnation (hard-coded in Dreamweaver) through stints in Blogger and WordPress, to its current build in MovableType. Though the content is never assured (the nature of having an “enrolled” staff), there always seems to be something interesting going on at the eHub. From posts about trolls that lead you places you never wanted to go to incisive posts about the state of the media world, it is always worth clicking through to read the latest. Even better, you can just subscribe to the RSS feed and all that yummy goodness will find you!
About eHub and J694 (PDF)
“By the end of the class students should be comfortable with both the human and technological challenges of working in a multimedia newsroom environment. To that end, they will work shifts in the multimedia newsroom editing, preparing and coordinating news content with the goal of getting student reporters' stories on TV, in the newspaper and online. By the end of the class students should be conversant in the latest trends and issues in the online journalism world. To that end they will read assigned material and file weekly topical essays on the multimedia newsroom blog, eHub.”
