A quarter million bylines, coming right up

Despite threats to press freedom and sustainability, student journalists are working overtime to cover their campuses and communities

At Carnegie Mellon University, the Arm Wrestling Club meets at 5 p.m. Situationships are common at the University of Arkansas. At Barnard College, the pain of staff layoffs is still felt almost a year later.

And student journalists at the Argonaut at the University of Idaho have spent almost four years covering the murders of four Idaho students and the aftermath.

I know this because every morning I read a spreadsheet of the headlines of 870 student news organizations across the country, using an AI tool I created from RSS feeds and a database of college newspaper websites.