The interest in live videos across social media platforms has accelerated over the past few months with a series of developments that bring high-quality video broadcasting to the masses. Instagram launched live video in Instagram Stories, an upgrade to the ephemeral format it borrowed from Snapchat. Periscope’s live capabilities have been integrated into the Twitter […]

On April 16, 2007, a senior at Virginia Tech shot and killed 32 people and wounded 17 others in two separate attacks, two hours apart, in a residence hall and then an academic building. It had been 41 years since a University of Texas at Austin student killed 17 people and wounded 31 from atop […]

Director of media relations used to be a title with a fairly straightforward and obvious list of responsibilities: Pitch items of interest to newspapers and broadcast outlets; respond to requests for information from those same newspapers and broadcast outlets; manage the occasional news conference; serve as your institution's spokesperson. Then the internet happened. Websites that […]

Paul Drayton @RowanBurlington President, Rowan College at Burlington County (N.J.) "College is more important than ever for career success, yet too expensive for far too many students. 3+1 provides all the benefits of both community colleges and four-year universities while lowering the tuition and debt burden on students and increasing our capacity to serve more […]