As Bobcats enter their fourth week of courses, The Put up has simply completed producing its fourth week of day by day on-line content material and fifth print problem of the college 12 months. For over a century, The Put up has been dedicated to offering its readers with the knowledge they want and wish to know.
In December of 1911, the primary problem of the Inexperienced and White was revealed for Ohio College college students and Athens neighborhood members to learn. Within the fall of 1939, it was rebranded as The Put up. The Put up remained a day by day newspaper till 2016, transitioning right into a digital-first mannequin with day by day content material uploaded on its web site and a weekly paper.
It was additionally in 2016 when the format of the paper modified from a broadsheet to a tabloid. This 12 months is the primary 12 months the print version is within the tall tabloid format.
Regardless of all these aesthetic and mannequin adjustments, The Put up has not faltered in reporting the information on a neighborhood and nationwide stage. From the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 to the Sept. 11 assaults to the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020, The Put up has at all times strived to ship factual {and professional} reporting.
The Put up at the moment has a workers of over 370 college students who all take part in numerous sections. There are six editorial sections: Information, Human Curiosity, Sports activities, Opinion, Leisure and Copy. On the visible aspect, there are Artwork/Design and Images. Moreover, the digital sections embody Net Growth, Viewers Engagement and Multimedia. As a workers, The Put up publishes a minimal of 15 items of content material day by day to the web site. 5 of these are voted on to be the highest tales of the next day and featured on the web site’s homepage. All content material is posted on Fb and X, with the highest tales being revealed on Instagram.
On the print aspect, each week 3,000 copies are printed Monday evening and distributed Tuesday morning to greater than 78 areas on OU’s campus and across the Athens neighborhood.
The Put up has been acknowledged with a number of awards from the Ohio Information Media Affiliation, together with the Frank E. Deaner Award for Excellence in Collegiate Journalism 2017-2020 and in 2023. Moreover, The Put up has been offered with awards from the Nationwide School Media Conference hosted by the Related Collegiate Press and School Media Affiliation. The Put up workers has obtained quite a few Area 4 Society of Skilled Journalist Mark of Excellence Awards, and in 2023 was a Nationwide Mark of Excellence Award Winner for “Greatest Affiliated Web site.”
The first mission of The Put up is to serve readers in a civic, partaking and entertaining method, and to take action in a fast {and professional} vogue that helps The Put up’s long-standing legacy as a premier media outlet in Athens, Ohio.
As at all times, thanks for studying The Put up.
Editorials characterize the bulk opinion of The Put up’s government editors: Editor-in-Chief Alyssa Cruz, Managing Editor Madalyn Blair and Fairness Director McKenna Christy. Put up editorials are impartial of the publication’s information protection.
