Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine.com recently paid a vist to the BBC to check in on their efforts to build a new newsroom. Jarvis wrote up his visit for his weekly column in the London Guardian. A couple of interesting observations:

Over at the Student Newspaper Survival Blog, Rachele Kanigel points to a new study showing that on college campuses, students still read the college paper. In print.

For the past year, I’ve been fortunate to be part of a group of folks who were awarded grants from the Knight Foundation through a program known as News Challenge. My project involved researching and designing the ideal newsroom for the student newspaper at Duke University. We…

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I came across this a bit belatedly. But the folks at Ning, which operates the platform that runs this site, gave us a nice shout out last month. Thanks, guys!