Editors at The Stentor student newspaper at Chicago’s Lake Forest College launched an editorial comeback to the LFC administration’s recent decision to no longer employ the paper’s adviser. The purported reason, as you might guess, is what the college president calls “budget stress.” – Stentor staffers are not buying- citing a mega-huge, $17-million sports [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Economy’
Student Editor: “This Isn’t How the Rocky Mountain News and Post-Intelligencer Died”
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged College Media, Economy, Journalism, Student Newspaper on May 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
College Media’s Economy Coverage Lower than the Dow
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Story Ideas, tagged College Media, Economy, Journalism, Student Journalism on April 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Why are j-students avoiding the economy? In an interesting new piece for MediaShift, Center for Innovation in College Media director Bryan Murley laments about the lack of coverage in collegemediatopia focused on the global economic implosion and those affected by it: – [W]hile much of the professional media has mobilized to cover the crisis, the response by college [...]
Student Media Fee Cuts Would Leave KU Outlets Limping
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged College Media, Economy, Student Media on March 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The student media have long been viewed as the beating hearts of higher education, pulsing at the center of nearly every first-rate university worldwide. At the University of Kansas, trouble is brewing at this heart, in the form of a possible reduction or elimination of student media fees- fees that support the operating budgets and [...]
UWIRE Round-Up of Student Newspaper Troubles
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged Campus Newspaper, College Media, Economy, Future of Journalism, Journalism, Print Journalism, Print News, Rocky Mountain News, Student Media, Student Newspaper on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
UWIRE provides a nice roundup of recent campus newspaper staff/print edition downsizing, providing briefs and links to full stories about cutbacks at a dozen student papers across the U.S. As the intro reports: “All over the country, university newspapers are scaling back to accommodate flagging funds, from slashing staff to going online.” —- Great list [...]
“Campus Publications Face Cash Crunch” at Princeton
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, Magazine Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged College Journalism, College Media, Economy, Journalism, New Media, Student Journalism, Student Media on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Who or what is truly to blame for the economic toil and trouble in collegemediatopia? —- A Daily Princetonian report notes that a number of student-run publications at the university are in various states of financial duress, the editor of one noting that the staff was “scrambling to accrue ad revenue.” The four main reasons [...]
College Papers Not Immune to Economic Doom and Gloom
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged Advertising Revenue, College Journalism, College Media, Daily Northwestern, Daily Pennsylvanian, Daily Princetonian, Daily Tar Heel, Economy, Future of Journalism, Indiana Daily Student, Newspaper Death Watch, Stanford Daily, Student Journalism, Student Media, Student Newspaper, The New York Times on November 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
As I wrote in early October, “The story of the student press so far this semester: The existence of the first sustained crack in college print papers’ seeming invincibility to the online takeover and economic downturn.” Since then, the economy has continued to collapse faster than Amy Winehouse’s career, prompting an unprecedented ad-revenue slowdown and [...]
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