frustration with budget cuts-part 1 (of an indefinite amount)

[scun]

My first job as editor for Broken Ink, USCA's Literary and Visual Arts Magazine, is to fight the Student Media Board on keeping it as a magazine. They want it to go to a strictly online format next year. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN

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[sweetbutsour]

Here's my two cents... Online-only is a bad idea.

I know on my campus, the student websites are barely looked at. We have 2 student news sources- the forum and the newspaper- different in content, but I feel there would be a similar problem in having an on-line only arts magazine. The thing is... no one looks at the forum, unless you created it. Few of the students even know its there. You get zero recognition for posting on the forum, whereas those in the print edition are know school wide. Even if you aren't really interested, people pick up print things and flip through them. People don't surf to arts websites just to see whats there in the downtime between classes- they pick up printed pieces and scan those.

[scun]

awesome, I'll definitely add something along those lines. Thanks for the idea!

[chainshot]

I guarantee you that a facebook page would get more hits than some dumb school-funded website. It'd be a waste of time and resources to create a webpage that NO ONE will look at. Most people avoid school websites like the plague because school sucks. lol