Why The Daily Pennsylvanian is Spending $100,000 Over the Next Two Years to Foster Innovation

By: Joseph Lichterman | NiemanLab

With staffs full of technology savvy millennials and comparatively few overhead costs, you might think that college newspapers would be among the most digitally innovative news organizations. But with transient staffs where the most experienced editors and reporters graduate every year — and a culture whose allegiance to tradition outstrips many professional dailies’ — many papers remain hidebound to how things have always been done.