Besides, most colleges and universities now put their student newspapers, literary magazines and other publications on the World Wide Web. If they don't, alumni magazine editors are out of work. Get a clue. The skill an alumni magazine editor brings to an office is the ability to be positive without being a booster, supportive without being overboard. In fairness, I am concerned about the lack of media coverage of higher education.
Many reporters understand higher education no better than the other subjects they cover.
In our commonwealth of Kentucky, I am worried about how little coverage higher education receives in the daily media. Some hard questions need to be asked about higher education. Unfortunately, the daily media has not asked them, assuming they understand the issues in the first place. But that is an issue for college officials to take up with the for-profit media. The solution is not for alumni magazine editors to create an in-house independent press.