FSView & Florida Flambeau

Infobox_Newspaper
name = FSView & Florida Flambeau


type = Student newspaper
owners = Gannett Company
format = Broadsheet
foundation = 1998
headquarters = Tallahassee, Florida
USA
circulation = Monday and Thursday: 25,000
website = [http://www.fsunews.com/ www.fsunews.com]

The "FSView & Florida Flambeau" is a for-profit newspaper owned by the Gannett Company that covers the on-campus events, happenings, and trends of the Florida State University as well as concerts, museum and art exhibits, movies, literature and poetry readings, and other events from the larger Tallahassee community. In early August 2006 the "FSView" made national news as being the first privately owned, college-oriented newspaper to be bought by a major newspaper chain. [ [http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/08/03/gannett Gannett Purchases Student Paper :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs ] ]

History

The "FSView & Florida Flambeau" is a resulting combination of two past publications that battled for readership during the 1990s. The officially recognized, university-supported "Florida Flambeau" started out during the time of the Florida State College for Women in 1915. The "Flambeau" dealt with the history and development of the college as well as matters on the local and global scales, as evidenced by the content of its second issue on January 30, 1915. [ [http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/SingleIndexIndView.aspx?ix=stp_fff&hpp=1&rf=*,z*&qt=i&java=NO&highlight=&zy=1915&zm=January&zd=30&zpage=01#centerapplet "Florida Flambeau Vol. 1, No. 2"] ]

The "Flambeau" continued in this tradition until 1971, when it became independent from the university. Then, in 1992, its main rival, the privately owned "FSView", challenged the "Flambeau"'s audience. The "FSView" came as an alternative to the "Flambeau", which had come under criticism by some university and student leaders as being harshly critical of Greek life in fraternities and sororities. [http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i41/41a03501.htm The Chronicle: June 22, 2001: A Private, For-Profit Campus Newspaper Gains a Monopoly at a Public University ] ] Rich Templin, the Florida State University Student Senate President in the mid-1990s, had this to say to "The Chronicle of Higher Education" about the emergence of the "FSView":

"It was a coordinated campaign to eliminate the one critical voice on campus." ]

Templin continued to speak to the "Chronicle", though the article did not quote him verbatim:

The "Flambeau" was run out of business by the Greek organizations and other student leaders, along with university administrators, who hoped to do away with its investigative reporting and critical coverage, [Templin said] . ]

In 1998, the flailing "Flambeau" was bought out by the thriving "FSView", which had gained momentum by acquiring the ads of fraternities and sororities.

On August 3, 2006, it was reported that "Gannett", the owner of "USA Today" and the local Tallahassee paper, "Tallahassee Democrat", had acquired the "FSView & Florida Flambeau", although, according to the deal, the college paper would remain "student-run". [ [http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=36808&comview=1 Merge ahead? ] ]

Current Operations

The "FSView & Florida Flambeau" publishes semiweekly on Mondays and Thursdays during fall and spring semesters following Florida State University's academic calendar. (No issues are released during spring or winter breaks, for example.) During the summer, issues are only released once a week on Mondays.

The current circulation estimate of the paper is around 25,000. According to the "Florida Press Association" [ [http://flpress.com/ Florida Press ] ] , the "FSView" must have been between 10,000–29,999 in 2006 to win one of its classified awards (see "Awards and Honors" section below).

Awards and Honors

The "FSView & Florida Flambeau" is the winner of the following awards:

*2006 Associated Collegiate Press Newspaper Pacemaker Award [ [http://www.studentpress.org/acp/winners/npm06.html ACP - Contest Winners ] ]
*2006 Florida Press Association Classified Award for Best Real Estate Classified Ad/Rental – Color or Black & White [ [http://www.flpress.com/fpa_members/2006ClassifiedListofWinners.pdf Florida Press Association 2005 Better Weekly Contest List of Winne ] ]

Notes

ee also

* List of student newspapers in the United States of America
* List of Gannett Company assets

External links

* [http://www.fsunews.com/ "FSView & Florida Flambeau"]