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(02/03/14 2:56am)
I am encouraged by the first week the newly elected Managing Board of The Cavalier Daily and their staff has had. As I noted last week, I was impressed with the work of the outgoing Board. I offered some suggestions about what the new Board should focus on, but I admitted to being curious about what they would do. I don’t believe that my ideas are the only ones that are worthwhile for The Cavalier Daily, but I am still gratified that those ideas do seem to line up with the initial goals for the new Board.
(01/27/14 4:11am)
I had thought to write this column only about the efforts and accomplishments of the outgoing managing board, whose work I have followed so closely over the last six months. Then I read former Cavalier Daily Editor-in-Chief (from 2006 to 2007) Mike Slaven’s letter to the editor (an actual letter, it seems, giving lie to my earlier column in which I noted that no one really sends such letters anymore) and realized a quick recap to follow up on his thoughts is all that is necessary. Mr. Slaven did a great job summarizing what the outgoing board has managed to do: reimagine how the Cavalier Daily can and should look in a digital age, develop a mobile platform (a website and apps) and still produce a high-quality product day in and day out. Let’s also remember that they have done all of this as volunteers making no money and while still responsible for their own classes and other pursuits at school. As Slaven noted, one of the managing board members, Charlie Tyson, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in what appears to be his spare time. I have, of course, been critical of some of the steps the board has taken, but their body of work is impressive and The Cavalier Daily is, in my estimation, much better for having had this group at the helm this past year.
(01/20/14 4:56am)
Last Thursday President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and others headed up a one-day summit at the White House to discuss how to increase opportunities for low-income and disadvantaged students in higher education. The University featured prominently at the summit with University President Teresa Sullivan in attendance and Assistant Education Prof. Ben Castleman and Economics Prof. Sarah Turner invited based on research they have each done in the field. UVA Today, the University’s news publication, trumpeted the University’s involvement.
(01/13/14 4:51am)
Over the course of three issues in December 2013 The Cavalier Daily published long pieces on the University’s honor system. The three-part series is an excellent example both of what The Cavalier Daily does well and what it can do better. (Editor’s note: Read parts one, two and three
here.)
(12/01/13 11:40pm)
In my columns, I’ve focused almost entirely on the work produced by The Cavalier Daily staff. The opinion pieces and news stories have been my particular focus, with an occasional look at organization and other sections of the paper. There are other, more interactive, parts of The Cavalier Daily, though.
(11/25/13 4:49am)
Not just news
(11/18/13 4:01am)
I’ve spent a great deal of time exploring The Cavalier Daily’s website and mobile app on both my iPhone and iPad. I don’t have easy access to an Android-based phone or tablet to play with those apps, and I’m very interested to hear from those of you using them. I’ve found that the mobile website is a more user-friendly experience than the mobile app, because of some of the app’s quirks. Each article in the app has the byline “webmaster@cavalierdaily.com,” followed by the author’s name in parentheses. This is more distracting than I expected. There are also often blank pages where more stories could go. It appears that only the previous week’s stories are included, which is odd for a digital platform. With only a week’s worth of stories and no search option, the app ends up being a surprisingly static thing, rather than something with which readers can interact.
(11/11/13 3:23am)
The Cavalier Daily put a lot of time and resources into covering the recent Virginia elections. For the most part I think they did a good job. Articles covering candidate platforms, financial and donation information and opinion pieces from students on the candidates for governor offered good depth and breadth of information. As one online commenter noted on the Terry McAuliffe platform summary, it is difficult to choose categories on which to compare candidates. I agree with the commenter that more information about candidate stances on important but excluded issues like same-sex marriage and K-12 education would have strengthened the articles.
(11/04/13 12:11am)
First, inform
(10/28/13 1:02am)
Football
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Local experts
(10/16/13 2:53am)
The Thursday, Oct. 10 print edition of The Cavalier Daily was the sexual violence issue. With a large, stark headline reading “Sexual Violence is Not Inevitable” and the lead editorial beginning on the front page, the reader was immediately shown that this issue would be different than most. And I applaud that difference. This issue was devoted to informing, educating and advocating about the problem of sexual violence in our community generally and the University community specifically. It was an effort by a significant community institution to provide a service to its readers. Being of service to the University community in ways that are not just about reporting news is something that Editor-in-Chief Kaz Komolafe has indicated to me is important to the current managing board of The Cavalier Daily. In this case I think the writers and editors of The Cavalier Daily succeeded in being of service.
(10/07/13 2:03am)
In the article “Clery Act report shows serious crime holds steady,” Carolyn Schnackenberg and Chloe Heskett wrote about the annual security report issued last Monday by the University Police. Schnackenberg and Heskett presented statistics but included little explanation about what the statistics meant. They gave no definition for the crimes reported. Although some of the crimes might have seemed self-explanatory, they included some fairly broad categories that could have used some specificity. Further, there was at least one statistic that left me baffled: “…a dramatic increase in liquor law violation disciplinary referrals from 2010 to 2011 — going from zero to 372. Referrals in 2012 decreased slightly to 283.” An explanation about why there were zero referrals in 2010 is necessary here. Lastly, and this is an issue I wrote about previously as a suggestion, there is no link to the report online though it is noted at the end of the article that the full report is available on the University Police website.
(09/30/13 2:18am)
In my column two weeks ago, “Working both ways,” I wrote about comments I’d read on a handful of stories on The Cavalier Daily website. In the ensuing time, some comment threads have exploded on a couple of pieces. Most of these are opinion columns, including the managing board’s lead editorials. I expect it will come as no surprise that the columns and articles that generate the most commentary and the most passion in those comments are, at least for some, political in nature.
(09/23/13 1:47am)
This week, by reading just about everything The Cavalier Daily had to offer, I found that I sometimes learn more from the staff’s Twitter feeds than I do from the website or news magazine. The digital-first initiative was never intended only to include a website, as I understand it. The digital platform doesn’t only offer the editorial board, writers and photographers a way to publish their work more quickly throughout the day; it also offers an opportunity for more interaction with readers.
(09/16/13 2:19am)
In my first column a few weeks ago I wrote that the digital-first platform with a twice-weekly print news magazine represented both an opportunity and a danger for The Cavalier Daily. One opportunity I noted, especially in the form of the newsmagazine, is for longer-form journalism. When I saw the headline this past week, “George Martin: An inside look at the University Rector,” I thought this was the perfect place for the longer form to be used to an advantage. I was disappointed to find a fairly short article of only about 600 words. For comparison, “the good and interesting piece “:http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2013/09/cornering-the-market“Cornering the market” on the Corner’s younger business owners ran nearly 900 words. I didn’t feel that I learned much about George Martin reading the article. Perhaps it was more an issue of expectations from the headline than anything else, but all I really took from it was that he loves the University and found his time here important in his life.
(09/09/13 2:42am)
Tragedy struck the University of Virginia community this past week with the death of second-year student Shelley Goldsmith. The Cavalier Daily coverage of the story began with a simple announcement published on the website on Sunday, Sept. 1. The announcement contained a bit of information about Goldsmith and noted that counseling services and other support is available to students via Counseling and Psychological Services and the Office of the Dean of Students, which includes Housing and Residence Life.
(09/02/13 2:03am)
The good
(08/26/13 9:21pm)
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