2008 Woodie Awards
Collegiate Readership Program sees funding renewal for '07-'08
Steven Hoffman and Elizabeth Rapalee
Issue date: 9/7/07 Section: Campus
The Collegiate Readership Program-which distributes free newspapers throughout Miami University's campus-is once again up and running, despite funding problems encountered last year at this time.
According to current Associated Student Government (ASG) President Jens Sutmöller, the program was almost cut last fall because the university was having difficulty coming up with the traditional program cost-$80-85,000. With Sutmöller's assistance, the funding responsibility has been streamlined, with students absorbing most of the fees. According to Sutmöller, in the past ASG has donated anywhere from $5,000 to $15,000 to help cover the cost of the program.
This year, however, ASG's influence is significantly smaller.
"(ASG) still supports the program, but, no, we're no longer involved in paying for it," Sutmöller said.
This is because the Office of the Provost has agreed to allow up to $3 of each student's tuition to go toward buying the subscriptions. In addition, fewer newspapers will be ordered daily-450 copies each of The New York Times and USA Today, and 200 copies each of Dayton Daily News and Hamilton Journal-News. While this means students will need to grab a newspaper quickly to get their news for the day, it does bring down the cost of the program to around $40,000 per year.
Part of the motivation to continue the program was because faculty and students alike seem to value having the newspapers on campus.
"I'm delighted that the program is continuing," said Patricia Gallagher Newberry, lecturer in the journalism program. "My preferred mode of information distribution is the newspaper. I'm happy that the program is helping turn our students into regular newspaper readers."
This year, as in years past, Miami will offer students The New York Times, USA Today, and Hamilton Journal-News-the only change being that the Dayton Daily News will replace The Cincinnati Enquirer.
"Many students were disappointed with the Cincinnati Enquirer," Newberry said. "We at the journalism department have a good and strong relationship with the Cox Newspaper Group. We send a lot of students there for interviews and internships. It's a good thing for our students to be seeing The Dayton Daily News."
According to current Associated Student Government (ASG) President Jens Sutmöller, the program was almost cut last fall because the university was having difficulty coming up with the traditional program cost-$80-85,000. With Sutmöller's assistance, the funding responsibility has been streamlined, with students absorbing most of the fees. According to Sutmöller, in the past ASG has donated anywhere from $5,000 to $15,000 to help cover the cost of the program.
This year, however, ASG's influence is significantly smaller.
"(ASG) still supports the program, but, no, we're no longer involved in paying for it," Sutmöller said.
This is because the Office of the Provost has agreed to allow up to $3 of each student's tuition to go toward buying the subscriptions. In addition, fewer newspapers will be ordered daily-450 copies each of The New York Times and USA Today, and 200 copies each of Dayton Daily News and Hamilton Journal-News. While this means students will need to grab a newspaper quickly to get their news for the day, it does bring down the cost of the program to around $40,000 per year.
Part of the motivation to continue the program was because faculty and students alike seem to value having the newspapers on campus.
"I'm delighted that the program is continuing," said Patricia Gallagher Newberry, lecturer in the journalism program. "My preferred mode of information distribution is the newspaper. I'm happy that the program is helping turn our students into regular newspaper readers."
This year, as in years past, Miami will offer students The New York Times, USA Today, and Hamilton Journal-News-the only change being that the Dayton Daily News will replace The Cincinnati Enquirer.
"Many students were disappointed with the Cincinnati Enquirer," Newberry said. "We at the journalism department have a good and strong relationship with the Cox Newspaper Group. We send a lot of students there for interviews and internships. It's a good thing for our students to be seeing The Dayton Daily News."
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anonymous
posted 2/01/08 @ 5:22 PM EST
Gannet has a USA Today Collegiate Readership Program that has been cleverly marketed to colleges and universities across the country as a way to enlighten our students and improve the journalism skills of the campus newspaper writers. (Continued…)
anonymous
posted 2/16/08 @ 10:21 PM EST
If your school is approached by the Gannett/USA Today Collegiate Readership Program, I hope that you will consider this: They want to steal your college newspaper advertisers and financially beat your college newspaper down by drastically reducing your ad revenue so that they can take over your college newspaper and promote their corporate ideology. (Continued…)
anonymous
posted 2/17/08 @ 2:35 PM EST
Now Quadrantone is piling on to ensure that college newspapers will struggle to maintain their independence and editorial freedom
If your school is approached by the Gannett/USA Today Collegiate Readership Program, I hope that you will consider this: They want to steal your college newspaper advertisers! They will financially beat your college newspaper down by drastically reducing your ad revenue so that they can either take over your college newspaper if it has potential for profit or simply put it out of business. (Continued…)
steve croft
posted 2/19/08 @ 7:33 AM EST
The comments of "anonymous" are accurate and reflect the true motivation of Gannett and the large newspaper corporations
A. Rooney
posted 3/08/08 @ 12:01 PM EST
USA Today and other Newspaper conglomerate Collegiate Readership Programs have flatly denied in print articles that they want to steal your college newspaper readers. (Continued…)
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