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Texas A&M Student Media produces three national, award-winning publications: 'The Battalion,' 'Aggieland Yearbook,' and 'Maroon Life.'

This week marks the one-year anniversary of the day we, The Battalion, were told to stop printing.

Print is not dead – a sentiment echoed by thousands of Aggies this year. Now, the first amendment nonprofit Student Press Law Center has honored the Battalion with a new award for press freedom.

Today, The Battalion continues its 129-year tradition of informing Aggieland through print.

After the original announcement from Texas A&M University President M. Katherine Banks that The Battalion’s future of print is done, the fate of the newspaper’s overall revenue is at risk.

In a Feb. 14 press release, Texas A&M University President M. Katherine Banks announced the working group tasked with developing a Department of Journalism may consider alternative solutions that would

The student newspaper will continue as an online-only news organization after the spring semester. But the university’s unilateral decision to end the print edition without student input has students and faculty concerned about its editorial independence.

Texas A&M students are protesting after the president announced the 129-year-old student run publication will cease printing.

On Thursday, Feb. 10, Dean of Students Anne Reber and interim director of Student Life Stefanie Baker approached The Battalion’s student leadership to inform the organization that university President M.

This will be my 391st article for The Battalion.