The wire, run via Substack, helps student reporters share knowledge and reporting.
By Hanaa’ Tameez@hanaatameez
March 16, 2021, 12:29 p.m.
March 16, 2021, 12:29 p.m.
Cal State Student Newswire launched in March 2020 as a wire service for student publications in the California State University system. Over the last year, it’s evolved from a wire service to an experimental, collaborative initiative to produce journalism across all CSUs.
California State University is the largest public university system in the United States, with 23 campuses and more than 485,000 students. Its sprawling size has made any coordination of coverage among student papers difficult. For instance, the university chancellor might speak at one campus, but his remarks are relevant to several others. In the past, if multiple student publications in the CSU system covered the speech, there would have been no consistent way to track the stories, share them, or collaborate across campuses. At the same time, universities play major roles and impact the communities they’re based in, and student media often fills the gaps and breaks news where professional news outlets don’t have reporters.