I have always found fascinating the very doifferent natures of the student press in Canada and the United States. As this story notes, in Canada, student newspapers are owned and managed by students, functioning either autonomously or as branches of their student unions. In the U.S. they are run by the college or university. The difference has resulted in great differences in the nature and content of their coverage and also, not surprisingly, their advertising. Now there's an additional change - in the U.S., student newspapers appear to be more likely candidates to be acquired by commercial media organizations such as Gannett. It's hard to imagine this ever happening in Canada.
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