Ohio University's student newspaper The Post faces existential threat in the face of administrative

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Ohio University’s student newspaper The Post faces existential threat in the face of administrative defunding


Ohio University student news organization The Post is at risk of losing its sole full-time employee who raises money for the publication, posing a potential existential threat to a 100-year-old legacy newspaper that’s historically served as a primary source of information in the area.

The publication’s business manager role, currently held by Andrea Lewis who oversees advertising sales as its exclusive source of revenue, has been on thin ice for nearly a decade with its oversight being shifted between administrative offices, culminating to this point where it will no longer exist in a year if the organization isn’t able to independently procure funding for her $45,000 salary.

Without somebody working in that role full-time, The Post’s editorial operations could be devastated, dampening news coverage of the university amid a period of significant upheaval and turmoil.

Prior to the recent rise of alternative on-campus publications, The Post historically operated as the main competitor of both professional local newspapers, The Athens News and The Athens Messenger, providing critical coverage of university and regional affairs.

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