There is now a second Student at the University of North Dakota. The UND Student Senate passed a bill this past week allocating start-up funds for a new newspaper, The Student Journal. It debuted Thursday.
The paper seeks to fill a niche perceived by its founders: An apparent lack of coverage in The Dakota Student, the official UND student newspaper, aimed at student organizations. Interestingly, and possibly as a rebuttal to the founders’ charge, The Dakota Student covered the Senate session objectively. I’m sure an editorial will soon follow.
A greater amount of voices in collegemediatopia is great, certainly. This one smells like a bit of inside baseball to me though, with two student senators being so involved with the new pub’s creation. I say an early story should be an investigation behind-the-scenes of the Student Senate. Show your editorial independence!
Thanks for writing this!
It seems that North Dakota is ignored in the national news so often that we have nothing newsworthy to report.
As a personal friend of people involved in both newspapers and in the Student Senate and as someone interested in media and journalism, I have followed the story with increased interest.
I would love to see an outside persepective on the debate as the story progresses.
Thanks,
Andrew R