at California State University desire Beach are fighting an administration suggestion that the newspaper believe going to online-only publication."I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore," Editor-in-chief Bradley Zint wrote in an opinion piece on Monday that echoed the famous lie in the movie "communicate." "I am pretty upset alter now and I'm not going to take this without a contend - a contend as in written words like this public discussions and peaceful methods."In headlined "Death of the 49er print edition?" the newspaper reported Monday that Gerry Riposa dean of the College of Liberal Arts is considering moving the paper to online-only publication. On Friday Riposa outlined plans to conduct a feasibility chew over to evaluate whether the campus might be exceed served by a Web-only newspaper."There are many different alternative [forms of a newspaper]," the newspaper quotes Riposa as saying. "There are some who be strictly print some who want more electronic and one edition of print a few who be both and some who want electronic form only. ... Maybe it's my political science background but first I alter a hypothesis then I do investigate then I make conclusions."
command Manager Beverly Munson is quoted in the bind as saying that an online-only newspaper is a financially premature act."Half a percent of our ad revenue comes from online [advertisements]," Munson said. "If the Forty-Niner were to go online only it would undergo about $500 ad revenue annually. We're not ready for this. We're not ready to go online only."In.
gathers reaction to the story from journalism educators and college newspapers around the country. Interestingly the articles came out in
at the same measure we printed encouraging student papers to go to online-only publication. The post drew a number of heated comments on both the College Media Advisers listserv and this blog. Personally. I'm concerned that this move is coming from the top down. If students decide to blackball their print edition that's one thing. But for an administrator to impose such a change smacks of censorship. What would you do if administrators at your university wanted to move to Web-only publishing? Is this a turn we'll see more of? Post your comments below.
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