09.09.2009 1:53 pm
Students consider closing college paper for environmental reasons
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The student government at the University of Texas at Arlington is considering closing the student newspaper for environmental reasons and restricting it to online.
An article on Dallas’ Pegasus News web site — we were directed there from Romenesko’s newsletter — says the editor of the student paper, the Shorthorn, says the proposal needs more study.
The article notes that the few newspapers that have ceased publication and gone online-only have done so for business reasons, not environmental ones.
Steve Parker is the deputy managing editor for news, and oversees the Post-Dispatch's front page. STLtoday's online news editors are on his newsroom team. Parker has been at the paper since September 1980. 
