Helpful links for college journalists, in no particular order…
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• Prof KRG — Professor Kenna Griffin is a a self-professed nerd: She can talk geeky tech with “Tips for Deeper Blog Commenting” and then come at you with “Things Professors Do that Irritate Students.”
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• Teaching Online Journalism — Where Kenna Griffin is nerdy and chatty, Mindy McAdams is serious and hardcore. She’ll tell you how to shoot video interviews then hit you with, “Many graduates with a university degree in journalism will never have a journalism job.” She makes you afraid to stop reading.
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• Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) — It’s “the oldest and largest national membership organization for college student journalists.” And it;s best known for two things: An amazing thorough and venerated awards program called the Pacemakers, and it’s annual conventions – one in the spring on the West Coast and one in the fall on the East Coast or in the middle of the country. The latter is co-sponsored by CMA and is the largest of its kind, with more than 2,000 hyped-up and hormone-riddled college journalists taking over one or even two hotels.
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• Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) — The largest journalism membership organization in the country mostly serves professionals, but SPJ has always had an active set of college chapters at the larger j-schools in the nation.
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• Society for Collegiate Journalists (SCJ) — The smallest of the membership organizations on this list is also  the most friendly and least bureaucratic. SCJ schools are mostly small, but they think big. SCJ always donates a chunk of its limited budget the SPLC and has an active awards program. And the price to join is small, too.
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• College Media Advisers (CMA) — You get discounts to CMA-sponsored conventions, one it hosts by itself in Manhattan every March, and one it co-hosts on a traveling basis with ACP. But the real value here is the very active listserv. Advisers who post their most pressing problems can get inundated with support, perspective, and suggestions within minutes.
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• Student Press Law Center (SPLC) — The best-kept secret in all of student media, college or high school, is this collection of attorneys who are available to you 24-7. These guys (and for some reason, they’re all guys) provide individual, awesome counseling on media law and general harassment of your media outlet.
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• Center for Innovation in College Media (CICM) — One of the first organizations to pimp for college media to move aggressively online, CICM hosts a blog written by a prickly new media prof named Bryan Murley. He’s a bit of a mensch, but he knows his shit.
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• College Front Page (CFP) — For a brief shining moment, this ambitious student-run site collected PDFs of student newspaper designers. Alas, it doesn’t seem to have been updated in some time. But it’s still worth a look for design ideas to steal, er, get inspired by.
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• College Newspaper Business and Advertising Managers (CBAM) — As the name implies, this is for students on the business end of student media. “Our student members are account executives, managers, graphic artists and production supervisors. They make cold calls, design ads, plan budgets and maintain computer networks.”
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• News University — Despite the name, this section of the Poynter Institute website is intended for pro journalists. And the courses can cost $15 to $45 apiece. There’s little here you can’t learn from free websites, but these are tightly taught with high production values. So if you got the coin and the time, go for it.