I attend a small lib­eral arts col­lege in the North­east. To be frank, our busi­ness man­ager is new and didn’t con­sult old appli­ca­tions for SGA fund­ing. Our EIC sub­mit­ted our appli­ca­tion two days late. We received zero fund­ing, and we need $10,000 per semes­ter in order to print. Unless we can raise that amount some­how, we have no news­pa­per. (We do have a great web­site thanks to cer­tain out­stand­ing, very enter­pris­ing peo­ple on our team. But we want a news­pa­per too. Most peo­ple would.)

So the prob­lem is less finan­cial depen­dence and more incom­pe­tence. I acknowl­edge that. At the same time, I was just elected EIC, and so I have to clean up this mess. I’m learn­ing about con­tin­gency fund­ing and deals we might make with our pub­lisher. But I was hop­ing to ben­e­fit from your advice and exper­tise. I apol­o­gize for not being able to be more spe­cific. Thanks for any and all help.

Ad Track­ing is becom­ing a pain for me. I looked into soft­ware and it is way too expen­sive for my small paper. I am an excel wiz, but for some rea­son I can’t make a tem­plate that seems to make sense to me. Any­one mind shar­ing their excel template?

Thank you!

you can email me at kellis3@ucmerced.edu

For col­lege news­pa­pers across the coun­try, the aca­d­e­mic year is wrap­ping up and in the words of the great Bob Dylan, “…the times, they are a changing.”

As edi­tors and staff move on to what­ever is next and lead­er­ship roles are filled by new peo­ple there is a pass­ing of information.

A lot of what you’ll be doing will stay the same. A lot of what you do will get bet­ter. A lot of what you do won’t be fully appre­ci­ated by your read­ers, but we the inky-fingered mem­bers of col­le­giate news­pa­pers are a unique mili­tia of infor­ma­tion. (more…)