Countdown Starts to a New NewsU

It will happen this month. A new e-learning site will be born.

We just aren't sure as to which day will mark this milestone. We are that close with the launch of the new News University site.

Here's what we know right now: The basic structure of the site is finished. We are tweaking some of the courses. [OK, we are tweak a few courses and doing some major remodeling for others.] We testing various new features, including the improved Course Report functionality.

We are also getting ready to launch several new courses. More on that later.

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One Step Closer

We made a big step yesterday. At 5:30 p.m., Eastern Time, we made the first of two technology changes to the new site and technology platform for Poynter's News University project: We turned off the registration system on the old site and are now signing up folks only on the new platform.

After 133,804 users, our final sign-up on the platform was a student from the journalism school at the University of Minnesota. Go Gophers.

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