A couple weeks ago The Daily Texan, 114-year-old student newspaper at the University of Texas at Austin, was on the ropes: few ads, dwindling bank account, doubt over its future and no idea what would happen next, but it wasn’t going to be anything to write home about. In one sense, none of that has […]
J-schools, why do we care about you?
For a journalism school graduate and someone who has been in the news industry practically all of my life, is that a dumb question? For publishers, editors, digital gurus, ad VPs, any media person – 25 or 65 – reading this, what do you think? We live in a world of TLAs. We live in […]
Shining the light, locally
A headline the other day in The New York Times caught my eye: Local Papers Shine Light in Society’s Dark Corners. The gist of the story: The “Road Warrior” columnist at The Record (Bergen County, northern New Jersey) focused on a massive traffic tie-up, the paper kept digging and N.J. Gov. Chris Christie now is […]
Student media faces same industry challenges
On March 1, in Austin at a meeting of the Texas Student Media board, there will be a discussion about cutting publication days of the 113-year-old Daily Texan, always one of the best collegiate papers in the U.S. Okay, you say, some non-student papers are moving to reduced publication. But those drastic steps are taken […]