Student newspapers are just one part of education learning to adapt to new technology. Part of this is a decline in ad revenue for print and online newspapers, which hits some of them hard. It's especially difficult when the school has a history of suppressing student voices, a journalism department which would prefer to run the student press internally, and a lack of independent funding. The story suggests ways alumni can help 'save your student newspaper', but it's not theirs to save, but I'm not sure of the value of replacing one form of 'adult supervision' with another. Autonomous and independent student newspapers should belong to and be run by the students, even if that means they sometimes fail. My best gift to the Gauntlet (where I worked for many years) is to leave it alone.
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