Duke News Service sites

I recently mentioned contacting a Duke’s News Service site to ask a question. Some of you wanted to know more about the site and how to reach it.

I’m responding to that and also offering a some additional information.

You can access the University’s search engine with this address:
http://search.duke.edu/

Type a person’s name, a subject, etc. in the search box and you're on your way.

Type in “Duke lacrosse” and you’re taken to:
http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/mmedia/features/lacrosse_incident/

It’s a website the University describes as providing “updates and information about the incident, the university's response and the extensive media coverage”

The websites main page includes a link to a collection of sample media coverage that includes some “old ones and new ones.” It’s here:
http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/mmedia/features/lacrosse_incident/media_archive.html

Just below that is an “Archive of Opinion.” You guessed it: op-eds, feature stories, editorials. Again, “oldies and newbies.”
http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/mmedia/features/lacrosse_incident/media_archive.html

The University seeks to provide a spectrum of news and opinion pieces. For the most part I think its done a good job of that. But the University should include news and opinion from blogs; and with very rare exceptions it hasn’t.

I'm going to continue to press Duke on its exclusion of blogs.

The main Duke News website is here:
http://dukenews.duke.edu/aboutus/index.html#jarmul

There is a lot of information provided there about a range of services Duke News offers and how to access them. There are also bio sketches with job functions for some of the News Service's key personnel.

As you scroll down you’ll see there are links to many more specialized information provider sites within Duke as well as links to many Duke publications including The Chronicle, the student newspaper and the alumni magazine.

There’s also a link to daily press releases with contact information here:
http://dukenews.duke.edu/2006/12/BoT.html

I hope you find the above information and links are helpful.