How a student newspaper saved two small-town Iowa weeklies
In what may be the first such acquisition of its kind, the independent student paper at Iowa’s flagship university has purchased two local weekly newspapers. Jason Brummond is the publisher of one of the largest newspapers in Iowa, The Daily Iowan, an independent student newspaper with an audience of about 50,000 that is run by 100 student employees and a small professional staff. Still, it never occurred to him to acquire other publications in the state until local publisher Woodward Communications approached him last fall, looking for someone to take over two weekly newspapers it had purch...
Source: insidehighered.com