It’s May, plants are finally blooming in Minnesota, promposals are yesterday’s news, and “Wrap it Up!” is flashing on the teleprompter out in front of us. So, this week we’re handing out some end of the year Best of SNO superlatives. And what a year it was for student journalism. Not unlike the national media, […]
SNO will be raking in the frequent flyer miles again this summer, delivering on-site, SNO-centric digital media training at regional workshops throughout the country. Check out our summer schedule below, because you won’t want to miss us. Jayhawk Media Workshop, June 10 – June 15, Lawrence, Kan. Media Now, June 25 – June 27, St. […]
Year after year, the Story Page Excellence badge (one of the six you need to earn SNO Distinguished Site status, for which you can enter here) proves elusive to even the best newspaper staffs. Why? More often than not, it’s about the long form template. Eventually, it clicks for everyone and they earn the badge. Just your luck, we’ve […]
When journalists use Twitter’s powers for good, it can all at once be an engine for story ideas and source generation. It houses widespread reaction to all things. In the spirit of news gathering, tweets about Shaun White’s snowboarding gold medal and Parkland, Florida, students’ rebuttal to President Trump’s tweets are embedded to make stories. Type “twitter reacts to” […]
No matter the state of your site’s design, you still hopefully have some curiosity about what else you could be doing to sweeten it or what you might have missed in the weeds. That’s why we created a mess of design examples on a site we’re calling our Reference Guide for Design. (We’ll take all your ideas for […]
We hear from our customers often, and one of the things we hear the most is that your want your website to get better. While the SNO support site, training materials, and videos help you improve your site year round, the request we get most often is for individual feedback. That’s why we’ve developed the SNO Site Review […]
For any publication, whether your online arm is your exclusive means for publication or is in addition to a long-established print product — or for anyone transitioning from one to the other — this is the big question: How do we bring our readers online and grow that base? Well, if you’re online, simply being there […]
This month, Facebook is instituting changes to its News Feed aimed at re-prioritizing the content you see, substituting news stories for more pictures of your aunt Ethel’s pet bird. Of the news leftover, Facebook is leaving it up to its users to decide what’s trustworthy, what’s garbage and what specifically they want to see. On […]
On Liberty High School’s Wingspan staff, there are reporters and photographers, editors and producers, and Samantha O’Brien. O’Brien’s in the corporate office, so to speak. Though she isn’t on the ground floor turning ideas into fully-realized, published content online, she’s upstairs, as she says, “ensuring the staff is awarded for their hard work.” She’s the Contest and Competition […]
We’re kind of in a celebratory mood lately. It’s the holiday season! Elf is on TV, like, every night! So, speaking of celebrating, we wondered what publication staffs do to commemorate a special milestone or anniversary, for their school or publication. So, we asked a few of you, because the first thing you did was to make […]