College journalism is thriving at schools that don’t teach it
Hundreds of college newspapers publish at universities that don’t offer journalism majors — and that’s no problem for the students.
Just before 7 p.m. every Monday of his academic year, Elias Kemp walks to The Colby Echo newsroom and settles in for a long night of editing.
In January, Kemp, now a senior, started as co-editor-in-chief of The Echo, the independent student newspaper at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. The Echo prioritizes its print edition, which comes out weekly during school. Monday is production night, when Kemp and his staff edit articles and lay out the paper for Thursday distribution. The Echo hasn’t found anyone in Colby’s 2,400-person student body to take the distributor position, so Kemp wakes up at 5:30 every Thursday morning to fill the newsstands himself.
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