THIS WEEK IN THE STUDENT PRESS REPORT:
Cash-starved and censored, America’s student press is in crisis
The future of journalism is being decided in college newsrooms as students and educators try to fight back
Andrew Frazier was planning to spend his senior year as the sports editor of his student newspaper, The Vista at the University of Central Oklahoma.
Instead, he became editor-in-chief of a new student-run publication, The Independent View, after his university claimed a print version of The Vista wasn’t worth the $12,000 annual cost. (UCO’s annual operating budget in 2024-25 was about $177 million.)
When donors offered the cash and the university still said no, free press advocates shouted censorship.
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