We've published our last issue of the school year (pick up a Finals Week edition at any drop on campus for the next two weeks!), and this year's staff has served our tenure.
Here's who's leading the paper from here on out:
The Pitt News Staff for Summer '09
Editorial Board
Drew Singer, Editor in Chief
editor@pittnews.com
Erik Hinton, Managing Editor
manager@pittnews.com
Liz Navratil, News Editor
news@pittnews.com
Keith Gillogly, Opinions Editor
letters@pittnews.com
Kieran Layton, A&E Editor
aande@pittnews.com
Jay Huerbin, Sports Editor
sports@pittnews.com
Molly Green, Copy Chief
copy@pittnews.com
Shannon McCurdy, Layout Editor
layout@pittnews.com
Vaughn Wallace, Photo Editor
photo@pittnews.com
Noah Levinson, Multimedia Editor
multimedia@pittnews.com
Victor Powell, Online Editor
web@pittnews.com
Editorial Staff
Lindsay Carroll, Assistant News Editor
Estelle Tran, Assistant News Editor
Dave Beitzel, Assistant Opinions Editor
Kelsey Shea , Assistant A&E Editor
Adam Littman, Assistant Sports Editor
Julie Percha, Assistant Copy Chief
Jenna Palmer, Assistant Layout Editor
Colleen Garvin, Assistant Photo Editor
Sarah Vinski, Assistant Photo Editor
Sierra Starks, Assistant Online Editor
Board of Managers
Justin Matase, Business Manager
business@pittnews.com
Louis Raven, Sales Manager
sales@pittnews.com
Leah Klaiber, Inside Sales Manager
advertising@pittnews.com
Business Staff
Colton Neff, Account Executive
Steven Kaczynski, Account Executive
Ashlyn Zellenfrow, Inside Sales
Mike Haley, Account Manager
Teni Jenner, Ad Designer
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20.4.09
22.3.09
Pitt News gets journalism accolades
It's awards season for college newspapers, and the results are in for the contests The Pitt News entered this spring.
There's the state-wide Keystone Press Awards, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association. To view the full list of winners, click the Collegiate tab under the Student Division listing.
We also enter the Columbia Scholastic Press Association's Gold Circle Awards, which is a national contest.
Both contests asked for submissions from the 2008 calendar year.
Here are our winners in the Keystones:
1st Places
Hayley Grgurich – Feature Story (“Welcome to Iron Mountain”)
Elham Khatami – Column (“Trip to Israel”)
Hannah Pilling – Graphic Illustration (“Election covers”)
Pete Madia – Sports Photo (“March Madness”)
2nd Places
Pat Mitsch – Sports Story (“Successful recruiting takes endless effort”)
Tom VanBuren – Review (“Roscoe redefines waste of time”)
Ben Filio and Victor Powell – Photo story (“Pitt vs. Iowa”)
Honorable Mentions
Justin Jacobs – Personality Profile (“Girl Talk”)
And the Gold Circles:
Certificates of Mention
Holden Slattery – General feature ("K-9 squad sniffs out trouble")
Jake Brett – Editorial cartoon ("The Newest American Addiction")
Jake Brett - Cartoon Portfolio of work ("Jake Brett's Portfolio")
Ben Filio - Single feature photograph color ("Breaking Bread in Tower B")
Braque Hershberger – Single subject news or feature package, two pages, double-truck or special section: Tabloid format color ("You'll need Safe Rider")
There's the state-wide Keystone Press Awards, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association. To view the full list of winners, click the Collegiate tab under the Student Division listing.
We also enter the Columbia Scholastic Press Association's Gold Circle Awards, which is a national contest.
Both contests asked for submissions from the 2008 calendar year.
Here are our winners in the Keystones:
1st Places
Hayley Grgurich – Feature Story (“Welcome to Iron Mountain”)
Elham Khatami – Column (“Trip to Israel”)
Hannah Pilling – Graphic Illustration (“Election covers”)
Pete Madia – Sports Photo (“March Madness”)
2nd Places
Pat Mitsch – Sports Story (“Successful recruiting takes endless effort”)
Tom VanBuren – Review (“Roscoe redefines waste of time”)
Ben Filio and Victor Powell – Photo story (“Pitt vs. Iowa”)
Honorable Mentions
Justin Jacobs – Personality Profile (“Girl Talk”)
And the Gold Circles:
Certificates of Mention
Holden Slattery – General feature ("K-9 squad sniffs out trouble")
Jake Brett – Editorial cartoon ("The Newest American Addiction")
Jake Brett - Cartoon Portfolio of work ("Jake Brett's Portfolio")
Ben Filio - Single feature photograph color ("Breaking Bread in Tower B")
Braque Hershberger – Single subject news or feature package, two pages, double-truck or special section: Tabloid format color ("You'll need Safe Rider")
27.2.09
Name-dropped
Bryan Murley, the fantastic multimedia adviser at East Illinois and the leader of the Center for College Media Innovation blog detailed the college media organizations using Twitter, and how they're doing so in his post How college media uses Twitter.
The Pitt News got a nice mention about using Twitter for breaking news and sports game coverage (Note: Check out twitter.com/ThePittNews to see our complete tweets covering the pedestrian/bus accident this morning), but there's a lot more we can do to improve. Stay tuned. And follow us!
The Pitt News got a nice mention about using Twitter for breaking news and sports game coverage (Note: Check out twitter.com/ThePittNews to see our complete tweets covering the pedestrian/bus accident this morning), but there's a lot more we can do to improve. Stay tuned. And follow us!
24.2.09
Twitter's taking over
As you might have noticed on pittnews.com or on page two of our print edition, The Pitt News has been getting into Twitter lately.
You might have heard about it: Twitter, a free social networking service that links people together through frequent mini-blog posts, is the next big trend online. And we're using it to reach our readers.
We've been building our Twitter page, twitter.com/thepittnews, and we send out breaking news alerts, headlines with links to stories and sports scores through Twitter.
The alerts get sent to our "followers:" other Twitter users who've chosen to be part of our network and receive our alerts. On the flip side, we follow a bunch of Twitterers, including some of the major news outlets -- the New York Times and CNN are just two examples of sending out news updates many times a day.
Typical Twitter users can send out their statuses throughout the day, a la Facebook, or they can respond to other Tweets they see. Many of our staffers, including me, have started their own accounts. Let me just say, if you like Facebook, this is absolutely the way to go.
It's like constantly being plugged in to the people and news you want to know, and being able to get to that information easily or join the conversation.
It takes the best of the Web developments you've grown up with and rolled them into one: chat rooms, instant messaging, text messaging, Facebook newsfeeds, blogs and RSS feeds -- Twitter hearkens back to them all.
The best thing about Twitter is it's versatility -- the trick to Twitter is learning how to use it without going to the actual Twitter Web pages. Instead, users can follow or Tweet through text messaging, widgets downloaded for their PC desktops, plug-ins on cell phones or through a number of other social networking sites.
Because many of Pitt's classrooms -- especially the Nationality Rooms -- aren't conducive to
many students bringing laptops and viewing The Pitt News online, we wanted to give students the option to follow us when they don't have a print issue or computer around. Following The Pitt News on Twitter will give you instant access, via Twitter or a text message sent to your phone or any other creative Internet plug-in you find, to breaking news, including instant updates of Pitt basketball game scores.
To get started, just visit Twitter.com. Remember to follow us @ThePittNews.
If you have a cell phone with Internet access, you can get hooked into Twitter using a handy plug-in like TwitterBerry for Blackberries or Twitter for iPhone.
Even though Twitter started as a small site more than three years ago, it's quickly growing and pushing into the mainstream. Seriously, it's the next Facebook.
Here's the Post-Gazette story on Twitter, which ran on their front page today.
You might have heard about it: Twitter, a free social networking service that links people together through frequent mini-blog posts, is the next big trend online. And we're using it to reach our readers.
We've been building our Twitter page, twitter.com/thepittnews, and we send out breaking news alerts, headlines with links to stories and sports scores through Twitter.
The alerts get sent to our "followers:" other Twitter users who've chosen to be part of our network and receive our alerts. On the flip side, we follow a bunch of Twitterers, including some of the major news outlets -- the New York Times and CNN are just two examples of sending out news updates many times a day.
Typical Twitter users can send out their statuses throughout the day, a la Facebook, or they can respond to other Tweets they see. Many of our staffers, including me, have started their own accounts. Let me just say, if you like Facebook, this is absolutely the way to go.
It's like constantly being plugged in to the people and news you want to know, and being able to get to that information easily or join the conversation.
It takes the best of the Web developments you've grown up with and rolled them into one: chat rooms, instant messaging, text messaging, Facebook newsfeeds, blogs and RSS feeds -- Twitter hearkens back to them all.
The best thing about Twitter is it's versatility -- the trick to Twitter is learning how to use it without going to the actual Twitter Web pages. Instead, users can follow or Tweet through text messaging, widgets downloaded for their PC desktops, plug-ins on cell phones or through a number of other social networking sites.
Because many of Pitt's classrooms -- especially the Nationality Rooms -- aren't conducive to
many students bringing laptops and viewing The Pitt News online, we wanted to give students the option to follow us when they don't have a print issue or computer around. Following The Pitt News on Twitter will give you instant access, via Twitter or a text message sent to your phone or any other creative Internet plug-in you find, to breaking news, including instant updates of Pitt basketball game scores.To get started, just visit Twitter.com. Remember to follow us @ThePittNews.
If you have a cell phone with Internet access, you can get hooked into Twitter using a handy plug-in like TwitterBerry for Blackberries or Twitter for iPhone.
Even though Twitter started as a small site more than three years ago, it's quickly growing and pushing into the mainstream. Seriously, it's the next Facebook.
Here's the Post-Gazette story on Twitter, which ran on their front page today.
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