Penn State ends funding for student-run newspaper, Daily Collegian

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The college last month made a final decision to phase out financial support for the school paper, which has been publishing since 1887.

and gone on to publications from ESPN to The New York Times to The Wall Street Journal.

Administrators and students are discussing the possibility of forming a news consortium with The Collegian and several other media, among them The Lion 90.7 FM and CommRadio, to create a more sustainable funding model. That proposed funding model would align Penn State with approaches by other universities, she said.

“Even now with all this going on, The Collegian is being marketed as something people should take advantage of,” Stonesifer said. “It shows you how important it is.” Megan O’ Matz, an investigative reporter for ProPublica and a Pulitzer Prize winner, questioned the budget priority of cutting funding for such a storied paper.

 

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