This is a great story and one that really shows how learning can combine with real-world activities to play a vital role in the community. Basically what happened was that the editor and publisher of a small town newspaper was getting to retire and planned to shut the paper down. Instead, she ended up donating it to the local school of journalism. Paid interns are running it for now, and they will turn it over to a capstone class of journalism students in January. It's a lot more structured than I would have done it. For example, rather than have the students rotate between predefined roles, I would have turned over all management of the paper to them, so they can try new models. And I would have made it less overtly focused on being a "sustainable business model". But those are quibbles over an initiative that otherwise has my enthusiastic support.
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