The pain of paper cuts

The news last week that The Atlanta Journal-Constitution was quitting print seemed to hit the journalism industry right in the heart.

 Many campus newspapers, too, have been forced in the past several years to make hard decisions about their print frequency. Those decisions have come with controversy, infighting, alumni disagreements, industry finger-wagging — all manner of feedback.

At the end of the day, there's no one prescription for how frequently student newspapers should publish. 

But one resource they can use is The Beyond Print Toolkit from the Lenfest Institute and the American Press Institute, “designed to help local newspapers build engaged digital audiences, create robust new revenue streams, and reimagine the role of print, all while continuing to produce essential journalism that serves their communities.”

That thing about no free lunches?