college rag

The University of Minnesota student newspaper, the Minnesota Daily, plans to stop publishing a print edition on Fridays, instead publishing online.
From the Star-Tribune:
Advertising had been declining steadily, and in September, “everything blew up,” said Vadim Lavrusik, the paper’s editor-in-chief and one of three co-publishers.
Without cuts, the paper’s revenues were headed 30 to 35 percent below [...]

The Georgia Southern University student paper, the George-Anne, is reworking its newsroom in a plan to move off a daily schedule, then return to daily publication in the next year.
The paper had been daily for two years, but editor-in-cheif Keith Warburg reports that grades have been dropping, as well as staff counts. Right now the [...]

After two years of being online-only, the Whalesong at the University of Alaska Southeast will resume publishing a print product, the Capital City Weekly reports.
Whalesong Editor Laura Lemire, a 22-year-old communications major from Vermont, was the paper’s editor when it went out of print years ago. Lemire said she stayed on board in hopes of [...]

CoPress, the grassroots movement to host college newspapers, has announced its first site hosting plan, with two participants so far — The Whit weekly student newspaper at Rowan University, and the F Newsmagazine at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Publications will pay a small monthly fee. We’re volunteering our efforts and offering this service at [...]

The Columbia Missourian will scale back its printing, cutting the Weekend Missourian and a weekday publication, the University of Missouri provost announced. The pape will still publish five times weekly.
From the Missourian:
The three-year agreement ends months-long speculation regarding the paper’s future and further insulates the paper against major budget cuts facing the University of Missouri [...]

Tired of a perceived bias in The Daily Nebraskan, conservative students at the Univeristy of Nebraska-Lincoln have launched a publication imaginatively titled “Student Newspaper.”
From College Media Matters:
In an early December article acknowledging its new competition, The Daily Nebraskan wrote: “From a scathing indictment of ‘The Female O’- a sex education forum held at UNL last month- to [...]

The Gonzaga Bulletin has drawn fire for refusing to distribute a 12-page pro-life insert titled “We Know Better Now” from the Human Life Alliance. HRA indicated it was surprised a religious institution would reject such an insert, and issued this response:

“The business of abortion is ugly and we think college and university students have a [...]

The Austin-American Statesman
The Daily Texan, one of only four college newspapers with its own on-site printing press, could be looking to sell its press. The paper’s governing board nixed the idea once this semester, but will reconsider the issue at its January meeting. The paper is looking at bids to see who could print the [...]

The Daily Nexus
The David Horowitz Freedom Center is frustrated that many college papers are refusing to run his ad, The UC-Santa Barbara Daily Nexus reports.
The ad, “Stop the Jihad On College Campuses,” says the Muslim Student Association recruits and supports speakers who “are calling for the execution of gays, the killing of Jews and support [...]

The first survey from CoPress, the grassroots movement to create a new college media CMS, is about to finish.
From Adam Hemphill: “Good morning everyone! This is just a gentle reminder–or a first notification for new members–that our survey closes in just under one week (at 8 p.m. EST on Friday, October 10). If you haven’t checked [...]

About 1,300 copies of the Sept. 17 issue of The Echo were stolen, the Student Press Law Center reports.
Adviser David Keith said he thinks the theft might be due to an editorial criticizing the student government president at the University of Central Arkansas. 
From SPLC: “Keith said the paper would pursue legal action against whoever stole [...]

From Media for Freedom: “Student journalists worldwide can register for a free, one-year membership to an online writing portfolio Web site that they can use to show off their writing and demonstrate their web savvy to potential employers.
Writer’s Residence, an online portfolio Web site for writers, is offering the memberships to university [...]

CoPress, the grassroots movement to create a new college media CMS, is surveying college newspaper online editors on their current CMS and how satisfied they are with it. Seven newspapers had submitted responses as of Tuesday.
“One of the big steps is our survey for online editors across the country, which we hope to use to [...]

The Parthenon, the student newspaper of Marshall University, will resume its Monday publication beginning next week. They were able to fund it after parntering with a local paper.
“‘The change from a four-day to a five-day publishing week came as a result of a new publishing deal with the Herald-Dispatch,’ said Corley Dennison, dean of Marshall’s [...]

Washington Post
The Howard University student newspaper, the Hilltop, is returning to publication Monday through Friday, the Washington Post reports. It is the only historically black institutions to have a daily paper. The Hilltop shut down in the spring because of budget woes. It updated its Web site infrequently during that time.
A brief history from the story: [...]

Ashworth University, one of the country’s largest distance-learning colleges, has formed a student newspaper and posted an introductory video to the Web. It will be named the Ashworth Chronicle.
Betty Ray, one of the paper’s editors, said it is due to launch next week and will feature student, faculty and staff profiles, a “Dear Abby” section.
“We’ve [...]

Northwest Arkansas’ News Source
WEHCO Media is interested in developing a closer relationship with the Columbia Missourian, the Northwest Arkansas’ New Source is reporting. One possibility would involve WEHCO’s Jefferson City (Mo.) News Tribune printing the Missourian and running the business side with students still responsible for editorial content. The News Tribune already prints the Missourian.

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The Commercial-News
The Oakwood High School newspaper in Fithian, IL, The Oakwood Times, started publishing online this year. “With this many kids in the class, daily stories keep people more involved,” journalism teacher Tim Lee said. “And I think a big part of the future of journalism is online.”

The Jerusalem Post has helped launched the Campus Post, “a newspaper about Israel written for students and others who are interested in feeling more connected to Israel on campus. ‘The Jerusalem Post was seeking to expand its reach to college campuses and bring relevant, updated information to students,’ asserts Amanda Borschel-Dan, editor of Campus Post.”

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The Maneater

University of Missouri at  Columbia’s student newspaper weighs in on the discussion regarding the Columbia Missourian, the J-school lab paper that is in limbo after a decade of debt. “We understand things need to change; we need to find ways to cut costs and to keep the paper afloat, but we as journalists and [...]

Ohio University’s The Post has redesigned its print edition, editor-in-chief Rick Rouan explains in today’s paper. Click here to download a PDF of Monday’s paper.
From the editor’s column: “We blended a modernized redesign that was just two years old with traditional elements. New and old have come together to make your newspaper even better.
Some of [...]

Inside Higher Ed
College newspapers are finally getting a “true — and bitter — taste of the ‘real world’”: “Late last month, two student newspapers announced plans to curtail print publications, citing the same drain in advertising revenues that has prompted layoffs at commercial newspapers across the country.”

Gawker
Hamilton Nolan writes in favor of killing college print editions when they don’t make money: “So tell us again: Why the f— is it necessary for a college paper to publish a print edition at all? They’re serving an audience where every last person has access to the internet. If a print edition isn’t profitable, [...]

The Daily Pennsylvanian
Executive Editor David Lei: I’ve discovered there are folks who regularly read The Daily Pennsylvanian online every morning shortly after we publish at 5 a.m. For those unusually dedicated readers and many others who would like to get their fill of Penn news before going to bed, I’m pleased to announce we’re now [...]