Rethinking the Student Newspaper

Similar to professional and student newspapers across the nation, Glendale College's El Vaquero is currently being published twice: in classic paper format, and online as a news website. For at least a half century, student newspapers have patterened themselves over the large commercial dailies, such as the Los Angeles Times. But with fewer young adults reading newspapers and the large dailies struggling for economic survival, the time seems right to re-imagine the student newspaper. We discussed the print and online editions of the El Vaquero and imagined how the staff might do things differently.