Post by FU73 on Mar 9, 2017 7:08:30 GMT -5
An interesting article in the FAIRFIELD CITIZEN by Laura Weiss on the University's student newspaper The MIRROR and the history of the campus newspapers.
Fairfield U. newspaper survives in digital age
Now, in its 40th year and the university in its 75th, The Mirror is reflecting and confronting the changing role of the press in the digital age. The paper has grown and evolved as the university has, said Assistant Vice President of Administration and Student Affairs James Fitzpatrick, a member of the Class of 1970. Fairfield University recently launched a new digital journalism program. But as the online realm has grown, so have the ways students look for information and news.
“Up until the period where social media took over, the way students received information, it was really the student way of being informed as to what’s going on on the campus,” Fitzpatrick said of the print edition. “That obviously has changed, I would say, drastically over the past five years.”
Each generation of student leadership has had its own vision of their role as journalists, University Archivist Elise Bochinski said. In the 1960s, the all-male student body took their jobs “damn seriously,” aspiring to change the world. In the 1980s and 1990s, the newspaper shifted to a more social venture, but “now it’s sort of swung back the other way,” she said.
“It was so grassroots in the beginning, starting a university in the middle of World War II basically,” Bochinski recounted. “The very first paper in 1947 was just this mimeographed single sheet.”.....
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www.fairfieldcitizenonline.com/news/article/Fairfield-U-newspaper-survives-in-digital-age-10974519.php#photo-12482088
Fairfield U. newspaper survives in digital age
Now, in its 40th year and the university in its 75th, The Mirror is reflecting and confronting the changing role of the press in the digital age. The paper has grown and evolved as the university has, said Assistant Vice President of Administration and Student Affairs James Fitzpatrick, a member of the Class of 1970. Fairfield University recently launched a new digital journalism program. But as the online realm has grown, so have the ways students look for information and news.
“Up until the period where social media took over, the way students received information, it was really the student way of being informed as to what’s going on on the campus,” Fitzpatrick said of the print edition. “That obviously has changed, I would say, drastically over the past five years.”
Each generation of student leadership has had its own vision of their role as journalists, University Archivist Elise Bochinski said. In the 1960s, the all-male student body took their jobs “damn seriously,” aspiring to change the world. In the 1980s and 1990s, the newspaper shifted to a more social venture, but “now it’s sort of swung back the other way,” she said.
“It was so grassroots in the beginning, starting a university in the middle of World War II basically,” Bochinski recounted. “The very first paper in 1947 was just this mimeographed single sheet.”.....
Read more:
www.fairfieldcitizenonline.com/news/article/Fairfield-U-newspaper-survives-in-digital-age-10974519.php#photo-12482088