As part of an ongoing discussion, and in light of a recent inflammatory satire published in the University of Colorado’s student newspaper, The Campus Press, university administrators, faculty and student journalists met last week to discuss the future of the publication and the possibility of The Campus Press declaring independence from the university. Currently, student reporters who write for the paper enroll in a class at the School of Journalism.  While some faculty fully support independence, others expressed concern for the success of a paper without faculty supervision, asking whether students had drafted a business plan and how they would handle training new reporters. The discussion is not without precedent at CU Boulder; The Colorado Daily, a competing campus paper, was once the student paper at CU but went independent in the 1980’s and is now owned by the Scripps media conglomerate.

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