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Published: Thursday, October 15, 2009

Updated: Thursday, October 15, 2009

After the cornice collapsed from a residence hall this summer, The News experimented with new media to bring the story to the Northeastern community:  We linked to an online update from my personal Twitter account and quickly created one for the Huntington News, twitter.com/huntnewsnu, before posting 19 photos to an online gallery showing the collapse aftermath. Within two hours of posting, the photo gallery received more than 2,000 hits, and the Twitter updates dispersed the story to a new online audience, even catching the eye of professor Dan Kennedy, a friend of The News who wrote about our forays into the so-called Twitterverse that day on his acclaimed blog, Media Nation.

So, in an effort to better distribute news to the Northeastern community, The News will print only on Thursdays while placing a renewed focus on online media. We will debut a total redesign of our website, which is currently in the works; develop our Twitter and Facebook pages beyond linking to content published in the print version; and deliver at least one weekly online-only update in which we experiment in video, audio, photo galleries or other new media.

MAGGIE CASSIDY
Editor-in-chief

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6 comments

Kamir
Sun Oct 18 2009 16:42
It is sad that the News will not be available in print. I was looking forward every Monday to see what's going on Campus. You can't always go online.
Your name
Thu Oct 15 2009 15:59
Pretty sure I saw that coming ... Now if you could reconnect with the University maybe the paper could go back to being a Pacemaker finalist and not complete garbage.
erica alum
Thu Oct 15 2009 11:12
yay I love twitter!
Bob in Brookline
Thu Oct 15 2009 10:43
Here is a radical thought: if you have news post it on this site. When I want news I go to
the source, be it nu-news.com, boston.com, etc. I don't get my news from
Twitter or facebook.

I don't consider Twitter and Facebook to credible places to get news. Especially
when you've got this site.

Dave in Dartmouth
Thu Oct 15 2009 10:39
And people were supposed to know about this Twitter page how?

I didn't know about it until I read this.

Your name
Thu Oct 15 2009 07:17
A+ decision






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