Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Editor & Publisher does story on Online Graphic

Pepperdine Student Paper's Web Site Shut Down Due to Wildfire -- Now It's Back By Joe Strupp Published: October 23, 2007 4:05 PM ET NEW YORK When the wildfires raging throughout Southern California neared Pepperdine University in Malibu on Sunday, campus officials shut down servers used by all campus Web sites. Unfortunately, that included the Web site of Graphic, the student newspaper, creating a four-hour disruption when the paper was in the midst of covering the raging fire's impact on students, many of whom were being evacuated and seeking information about university events. "They just decided to do it, but they didn’t take into account that it would affect the newspaper Web site," said Editor-In-Chief Shannon Kelly. "They said they didn't do it on purpose."

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2 comments:

Evelyn said...

I checked for the Graphic's coverage of the fires during the time the University took over for its emergency message, so this is really cool to see E&P weigh in. But great job with all the online updates and for keeping the blog going when the Graphic site was temporarily taken down. I've been checking both regularly for info on the Malibu fires.

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