Stop the presses! That's what the computer-savvy editors of Temple News, the 75-year-old student newspaper of Philadelphia's Temple University, decided after skyrocketing newsprint costs and plunging ad revenues rendered it fiscally impossible to sustain the paper's daily run of 10,000 copies. In March, Temple News migrated to the Web, becoming one of the first US school papers to go completely digital. Will most of the students be shut out by the switch? Managing Editor Adam Butler doesn't think so. "Two-thirds of the Temple student body already has campus provided online accounts," he says.
Temple News, on the Web at astro.temple.edu/~kate/.
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