Speaking of subsidies, Is the Targum gonna go down?
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The Tab acted on false leaked information without verification, and was wrong.
Except they can't claim to be independent since 1980 if they're funded by the University.
It's interesting to me that the student newspaper is funded at all by the university. Pretty big conflict of interest.
I was a part of Targum leadership a few years ago and we ran a referendum (fortunately, was successful). If I remember right, the University itself doesn't provide funding, but rather facilitates the student body to fund it through a special line item on the term bill.
Pretty funny to read former sportswriters on Twitter, guys who now blog or work for web publishers, whine about the lack of student support for, you know, a newspaper. Why should students at RU be different than the overwhelming majority of U.S. consumers who get their news from TV or online? I still love to read the paper every day. But, hey, I'm old. It's 2016. Print is dead.
Whenvever I read "Rutgers should be ashamed," I know I've found a writer who needs a slap in the face.
Students fund the Targum directly through a refundable fee on their term bills.
That's the university connection.
It was founded in 1869 and is the second-oldest college newspapers in the nation.
The Targum is student written and managed along with being independent from RU control.
It's been set up as a non profit ( like some other college newspapers are) having the non profit Targum Publishing Company oversee all areas of the paper instead of the administration of Rutgers University controlling the content like a University run paper would do.
So there's no conflict of interest like you think, because RU isn't funding the Targum , it's students are and in order to secure student funding for the Daily Targum, the newspaper is required to hold a referendum every three years allowing Rutgers University Students decide whether to continue funding the Targum or not.
The last referendum was three years ago and that's what this thread is all about.
Looks like this year's referendum turned out the students not wanting to support the Targum and its existence is in serious jeopardy .
Got it. Does anyone know if students at comparable state universities also have a line item on their tuition bills to help fund their student newspaper? I have no idea if this is the case at Penn State, for example, but I can't recall ever hearing about the paper's finances being set up this way.
That was unnecessary, I graduated from RBS and love the Targum. Still pick it up when I'm in the area. Kind of a tough spot to be in I guess, at some point it becomes hard to justify paying for a physical paper like we are seeing with the regular newspaper business. I wonder if this has played out at other schools across the country. Anyone have any insight?
To be fair, how much attention have you given to the Targum's finances prior to this thread?
