A celebration of 138 years of student journalism brought together Daily Collegian leaders and staff and enthusiastic alumni on campus on Friday, April 25. As a dynamic, independent news organization, the Collegian covers history and makes history, Editor in Chief Amy Schafer and Business Manager Zachary O’Brien said in their Read more
The Collegian Alumni Interest Group (AIG) is raising funds for an endowment to ensure current Collegian staffers have the same great experience we did. One donor, Mike Kardauskas, wrote a note to the AIG talking about what The Collegian meant to him and why he gave. With his permission, his Read more
The Collegian has several avenues it can pursue in an effort to expand revenue and improve the organization’s bottom line, including grants, subscriptions, donations, and events. That was the advice Penn State Class of 1992 alumnus Kevin Naff offered to the current Collegian staff during his Alumni Interest Group roundtable Read more
There are no trains, and there are no stations. That was the central message Andrew McGill delivered to Collegian students this October as he led a roundtable discussion about career paths and outlined the various steps he took from Collegian managing editor in 2010 to owner of his own consulting Read more
The Collegian AIG strongly objects to Penn State’s removal of all 35 Daily Collegian newspaper racks on Sept. 18 in a dispute over ads atop fewer than 10 of the racks. In addition, the AIG believes the Penn State administration should have given The Collegian an opportunity to remove the Read more
During Penn State’s “We Are Weekend,” the two principals who led nine months of research into best practices to revitalize The Daily Collegian presented their recommendations to an audience of 30 that included Collegian students and alumni and university officials. Bob Buday, one of the two principals who led the Read more
New York Times Deputy Standards Editor Mike Abrams, who served as editor-in-chief of The Daily Collegian in 1993-94, talked about the potential and the pitfalls of artificial intelligence (AI) in journalism with two dozen Collegian students and alumni in a Zoom roundtable hosted by current editor-in-chief Nick Stonesifer. Abrams is Read more
The Penn State Alumni Association has granted Collegian AIG Treasurer Megan Hennigan the Martin R. Cepeda Jr. Award for Alumni Career Advancement and Development. This award recognizes Megan’s work to launch, develop, coordinate, and promote the Zoom Roundtable programs that she and former AIG President Jordan Hyman created to introduce Read more
The Collegian AIG sponsored two Zoom Roundtables for Collegian staff members, including one with Erica Beshears Perel, the former student newspaper general manager who turned around The Daily Tar Heel at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The other Zoom Roundtable star was Collegian alum Sara Cudemo, who Read more
The Collegian AIG sponsored two Zoom Roundtables with experts early in September and more are scheduled for later this fall. The first was held Sept. 6 with digital marketing expert Krystle Kopacz, CEO at Revmade, an award-winning marketing strategy company. That roundtable can be viewed here. The second, held Sept. 13 Read more