Campus News Network

Campus News is different than other college publications because it has a complex, multi-campus media distribution network servicing the people the project aims to help.

Our work is very public and what we do won’t be done in a vacuum. It will be participatory journalism at its purest.

We go the the campuses, find the stories, and then can publish them, helping that campus as well as dozens of other campuses where we also distribute – which may have similar problems that need fleshing out.

There is no other media outlet doing this, serving these underserved populations in a mass-media kind of way.

Campus News was founded during the 2009-10 academic year when community college journalism instructor and school newspaper adviser Darren Johnson maxed out his credit card and funded a paper that would hit many New York Metro two-year campuses.

The paper survived and actually grew as other papers called it quits, including most two-year college papers in the region.