BC Heights cuts back print pages in economic hard times

Although college newspaper's unique niche market have tended to exclude them from the brunt of the downturn in the newspaper trade. These economic hard times are still having an impact.

The BC Heights has decided to reduce its number of pages from 28 to 20 an edition, with two ten-page sections each Monday and Thursday.

Read Editor-In-Chief Alexi Chi's Letter from the Editor - News for further details.

In order to compensate for decreases in ad sales, we have to change the paper in order to ensure that we can continue printing and, above all, maintain the independence that is inseparable from our role as a fair and unbiased campus voice.
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The Heights editorial board is using these changes as an opportunity to make The Heights a more concise, readable paper, and to expand its online content. Though you may see some changes to our physical product, our editorial and ethical standards, as well as our commitment to the students of Boston College, remain unchanged.

The print world really is suffering (my hometown paper The Seattle Post-Intelligencer printed its last edition today). The future is online and although no one has figured out a way to make a fully profitable, successful Internet version, I hope college papers start focusing more on that front. Being a college paper allows for more room to experiment and go out on a limb to find an online format that works. Hopefully this cutback at The Heights will allow the paper to put more resources into developing the Web site.