The Maine Campus

Circulation and distribution

Approximately 500 copies of the Campus are printed every issue. Since 2024, the Campus published a magazine style full color edition on the first of the month and continues to publish articles weekly on their website.

The Campus has been online since the late 1990s. On April Fool's Day the Campus runs a satirical edition named The Maine Krampus.

History and organization

The Maine Campus has existed since 1875, and has at various times been a weekly, daily and semiweekly paper. The Crucible was the first student newspaper at the University of Maine, established in 1873, which was replaced by the College Reporter. |url-access=registration |access-date=2009-08-11 The Reporter became The Cadet, which was published monthly from 1855–1899. It then continued as The Campus, until changing its name to The Maine Campus on June 1, 1904. |access-date=2009-08-11 By the time it became The Maine Campus, it was publishing semimonthly, |author-link=Maine |access-date=2009-08-11 and by 1912 it was published weekly. It became The Daily Maine Campus (Monday through Friday) in 1979 under editor Dan Warren. It remained a daily newspaper, peaking at 5,000 circulation through the 1980s, under editors Tammy Eaves, Steve McGrath, Stephen Olver and Ernie Clark. In 1990 it changed from a daily newspaper to a thrice-weekly newspaper, and has since become weekly.

The Campus is a direct-funded student organization, meaning it is an independent company that receives money directly from the school and is not under the purview of student government. However, the paper has, on several occasions, required financial assistance and bailout from the student government (notably in 2002–2003). The Campus is partially funded through the communications fee, and partially through ad sales. The paper is editorially independent of the university.

The newspaper is run by the editor in chief and the business manager. The editor in chief makes all content decisions and is the public face of the newspaper, while the business manager has final say on business decisions. The paper also has a board composed of the editor in chief, news editor, Web editor, sports editor, production manager, style editor, photography editor, opinion editor, and head copy editor. Unlike many other college newspapers, the Campus does not have any non-student employees.

In fall 2009, The Maine Campus switched from tabloid format to broadsheet. In 2011, the paper began a partnership with the Bangor Daily News to provide training, web hosting and development services for the paper, as well as a content-sharing agreement aimed at promoting the best in student journalism in Maine. In 2012, the paper switched from twice-weekly publication to a once-weekly Monday paper.

Notable alumni

Stephen King wrote a weekly column for the Campus in the 1970s and also published short stories such as Slade in the newspaper. According to Haunted Heart by Lisa Rogak:

King's columns were often controversial and were popular in the community, even garnering the attention of then-President Winthrop Libby, but neither his columns nor his short stories have ever been republished. According to Stephen King from A to Z:

References

References

1. [http://mainecampus.com MaineCampus.com]
2. "Digital archives of The Maine Campus".
3. "Prism (yearbook): 1991".
4. Contributed. (2011-12-09). "BDN launches partnership with The Maine Campus newspaper".
5. Beahm, George W.. (1998). "Stephen King from A to Z: an encyclopedia of his life and work". Andrews McMeel Publishing.