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J Wells, 12/7/2004, 9:51:54 PM
All,
I will be EIC next year and am currently writing a proposal to our Student Life dept. to change the structure and funding of our paper. Currently, we recieve a great portion of our funding through the student fee (I am at Berea College, and there isn't much around here that wants to advertise). We despereate need more people but can't afford it, and telling me get more ads won't help, trust me. So, I am trying to gather some stats on funding for various papers. My school is 1500, and that is our circulation as well. We print broadsheet, usually about 12-16 pgs. If any of you are in a similar situation, please let me know how much funding your paper gets aside from ads. Also, please reply to wellsj@berea.edu.
Thanks,
J Wells
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Laura, 12/9/2004, 5:32:00 PM
We are weekly with a circulation of 1500 with tabloid-size 12 - 16 pages. We receive exactly how much money we need to print 23 12-page papers, pay 2 phone lines (1 phone, 1 fax), and buy office supplies, which this year was $11,800. Any extra purchases (food, t-shirts, etc.) and editor stipends are paid from advertising.
Good luck with the proposal!
R. Velella, 12/15/2004, 8:48:38 AM
Your paper sounds very similar to mine, J Wells. Don't discredit the advertising possibility yet. Our paper, like yours, is a broadsheet, 12-16 pages, prints about one per student... and we are stuck in a not-so-well-off small town. We do get a significant amount of funding from the College, but that pays for everything BUT printing (i.e. office supplies, work study payment to editors). Maybe re-think "advertising" as "community sponsorship." I know that's not the response you want to hear, but I always think of this: the more funding the College gives you, the more you owe them back, and the possibility of an obstacle in the way of a free press is too great to risk.
Rob Velella
Director of Student Newspaper & Radio Station
Washington & Jefferson College (PA)
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