The Indiana Daily Student (IDS) will no longer produce a weekly print edition starting in spring, the Indiana University Media School announced on Oct. 8.
IU’s editorially-independent student newspaper since 1867, the IDS has seen several cuts to its print product in recent years, dropping from five times a week to twice a week in 2017 and moving to a once-a-week publication in 2020.
The Media School announced the change as part of its “Action Plan for Student Media”. In addition to reducing the IDS print schedule to only “special editions” throughout the year, the plan seeks to merge the IDS, the student radio station WIUX and the student broadcast station Indiana University Student Television (IUSTV) into a shared business operation and “multiplatform learning lab.”
Under the proposed model, the organizations will maintain their individual staff and newsrooms, but share some centralized advertising, business and recruitment operations. The Media School also reportedly will bring on two to three new graduate student workers to assist in expanded operations.
Staff at the IDS told The Herald-Times the action plan was originally slated for publication on or after Oct. 9, when Media School Dean David Tolchinsky had scheduled a meeting with student media leaders. IDS leaders said they learned of the plan early through Media School faculty, and began writing an article in response, prompting the school to publish early. Co-editors-in-chief Marissa Meador and Jacob Spudich said they were able to tell some people in the newsroom early, but many learned about print cuts through the Media School’s release.
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