Reports: Blair High Newspaper Strapped for Cash
The student-run newspaper needs to raise $6,000 to print its last issues of the school year.
Silver Chips, Montgomery Blair High School's monthly student newspaper, is scrambling to find money to publish the last three issues of this school year, Bethesda magazine's Education Matters blog reports. The paper, which exists on a combination of advertising revenue, donations and a small stipend from the school district, is $6,000 short the money it needs to finish out the school year. That's money that faculty advisor Joseph Fanning is brainstorming how to produce, the magazine reported. He said that he's considering amending the advertising model to give access to both the print and the online version. Silver Chips isn't the first Montgomery County high school newspaper that has had to get creative to continue printing. Bethesda …
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Christopher Lancette
7:13 pm on Sunday, February 17, 2013
As a former journalist myself, I'd say that the idea of a monthly newspaper is antiquated. I would echo thoughts that money could be much better directed toward Web and other electronic versions. No need to teach the next generation how to drive a horse and buggy. more ›