Welcome to the home site for the Intercollegiate Online News Network.
The Intercollegiate Online News Network (ICONN) is a set of individuals, academic programs, and professional organizations dedicated to connecting campus web journalists and campus news websites and to advancing education in web and online journalism at the collegiate level.
The network includes the Interscholastic Online News Network (ISONN) and is a non-profit (501-c-3) organization.
Member sites of ICONN agree to share their originally produced content with other member sites and also agree to give appropriate credit to the originating site.
• If you want to know more about ICONN, visit out About page.
• If you are affiliated with a website that would like to join ICONN, please fill out the form on the Join on this site.
• If you are seeking information about the JeffersonNet content management system that drives many of the websites in the ICONN technical network, check on this information about JeffersonNet.
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ICONN annual conference in Nashville March 29-30, 2012
The annual conference of the Intercollegiate Online News Network will be March 29-30, 2012, at the First Amendment Center on the Vanderbilt University campus in Nashville.
We will post more details about the conference as they become available, but for right now — save the date.
ICONN NewsStream launched
The ICONN NewsStream, the news service of the Intercollegiate Online News Network, has been launch and is now in full operation. The service will provide fresh, relevant content for ICONN news websites on a regular basic and also offer an opportunity for collegiate journalists to have their work appear on other ICONN sites. READ MORE . . .
State of the Network, September 2011
For a comprehensive look at the Intercollegiate Online News Network, take a look at the State of the Network, September 2011 report.
Here are some of the highlights:
- JeffersonNet. In October 2010, we achieved a founding goal of the organization: Setting up a system that could create and support news websites for any school, course, program or campus entity that want them. The system is the WordPress-based JeffersonNet.
- Growth in membership. The number of news website that are members of ICONN — and its high school subsidiary, the Interscholastic Online News Network — continues to increase. ICONN has more than 30 campus sites as members, 18 of which are supported by the JeffersonNet content management system. On the ISONN side, we have 46 member sites, 42 of which are supported by JeffersonNet.
- Educational outreach. The Going Online workshops held at the University of Tennessee over the past two years morphed into something new this past summer — online workshops. Their success has opened up new possibilities for teacher training at both the collegiate and scholastic level. Our educational site, JN-21.com, has more information.
- Conferences. In addition to the workshops noted above, ICONN held its third annual conference in March. The conference was hosted by the University of Georgia Grady School of Journalism. Next year’s conference will be March 29-30 at the First Amendment Center in Nashville, Tenn.
- ICONN/ISONN NewsStreams. The idea of using the work of individual member sites as the basis for a collegiate news wire formed and has been put into practice this year. And we have done the same thing on the scholastic side with our ISONN NewsStream. Check these out: ICONNNewsStream and ISONNNewsStream.
- Strengthening the organization. We have taken a number of steps to strengthen the internal organization, including application for 501-c-3 non-profit status, the building of an advertising network, and the submission of several grant proposals.
