Last week I said that for the next several weeks, I will be creating content as though I were writing for the Sports section of the Daily Tar Heel, the student-run newspaper at UNC.
Every Monday, The Daily Tar Heel has an extended Sports page both in print and online. This is usually the only time a sports opinion column will appear (usually written by either Gregg Found or Sam Shepard). My job will be to try to take their job.
Integrating the potential of the Web medium is not exactly the paper’s forte. What the Daily Tar Heel tends to do is take the articles they print on the newspapers they circulate on campus and essentially paste them onto the Internet. There are very few links (if any), and nothing in the way of multimedia. On the other hand, TarHeelBlue does a much better job of incorporating multimedia into their articles. You can expect my articles to be similar in its integration of multimedia, but with a critical eye that TarHeelBlue just won’t allow.
October 19, 2006 at 10:57 am
you’re right in your analysis of the DTH online. lots of opportunity to better leverage the medium. look forward to reading your take on tar heel sports, of which i’m a big fan. i hope somehow they beat the cavs tonight.
October 23, 2006 at 1:21 pm
I just got word that Coach Bunting will be let go at the end of the season. This means He’s been fired before I got the chance to complain about him! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!