As Bobcats enter their fourth week of courses, The Submit has simply completed producing its fourth week of every day on-line content material and fifth print concern of the varsity 12 months. For over a century, The Submit has been dedicated to offering its readers with the data they want and wish to know.
In December of 1911, the primary concern of the Inexperienced and White was printed for Ohio College college students and Athens group members to learn. Within the fall of 1939, it was rebranded as The Submit. The Submit remained a every day newspaper till 2016, transitioning right into a digital-first mannequin with every 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 modifications, The Submit has not faltered in reporting the information on a neighborhood and nationwide degree. From the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 to the Sept. 11 assaults to the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020, The Submit has at all times strived to ship factual {and professional} reporting.
The Submit at present 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 facet, there are Artwork/Design and Images. Moreover, the digital sections embrace Internet Improvement, Viewers Engagement and Multimedia. As a workers, The Submit publishes a minimal of 15 items of content material every 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 printed on Instagram.
On the print facet, 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 group.
The Submit 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 Submit has been introduced with awards from the Nationwide Faculty Media Conference hosted by the Related Collegiate Press and Faculty Media Affiliation. The Submit workers has acquired 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 Submit is to serve readers in a civic, partaking and entertaining method, and to take action in a speedy {and professional} vogue that helps The Submit’s long-standing legacy as a premier media outlet in Athens, Ohio.
As at all times, thanks for studying The Submit.
Editorials symbolize the bulk opinion of The Submit’s govt editors: Editor-in-Chief Alyssa Cruz, Managing Editor Madalyn Blair and Fairness Director McKenna Christy. Submit editorials are unbiased of the publication’s information protection.