Innnteresting, and per the Trib, apparently was done with ZERO forewarning to journo students, or input by them.
President M. Katherine Banks (always distrust people who go by first initial, middle name, until they prove otherwise!) made the call herself, according to A&M's dean of students. Banks claimed that, per a 2021 recommendation to bring back a journalism department there (dead since 2003), it was inline with focusing on digital journalism in general.
Problem? That journalism department ain't back yet, and who knows if it will be. A working group first discussed that as a possibility, nothing more, the day before Banks killed the print paper. Besides, Battalion staff note that most ad money for them still comes from print. Oops.
Good journalism students there are of course, and rightly, journalistically skeptical, even suspicious, about the official line on this.
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