The University of Calgary Gauntlet - where I was an editor in the 1980s - printed its last weekly newspaper on paper in 2017. But it updates daily online. That pretty clearly is the future of news media generally, though it still comes as a surprise to many. That's why I find it so odd that student newspapers in the U.S. are still pondering their future. Where should they put their efforts? Well, not TikTok or Twitter, though that's part of the picture. It's POSSE - Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. Anything else puts you at the mercy of the platform. Though newspapers, which are experimenting with Facebook and Google's AMP, haven't really learned that lesson either.
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