An Early Education in Newspaper Woes

If you think about it, student newspapers and metropolitan dailies have quite a lot in common these days. Staff turnover is high. Management changes every few years. Pay is low. Gossip is commonplace.

And it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who's been following the plight of newspapers that campus publications are also taking a financial hit.

The Daily Californian, UC-Berkeley's independent student newspaper, is cutting back a day of publication -- skipping the Wednesday print edition and directing readers to its online version. The paper sites, drumroll please, "a national epidemic of reductions in print ad revenue."

Salaried positions at the newspaper already have taken a 10 percent cut.

Meanwhile, at Syracuse University, The Daily Orange is no longer publishing a print edition of its newspaper on Fridays. New content will still appear on the Web that day.