{"id":1099,"date":"2022-01-13T20:36:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T20:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=1099"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:38:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T20:38:19","slug":"papers-end","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/news\/papers-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper&#8217;s End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Back in 1951<\/strong>, the publication that launched 35-years before as the<i> State Normal School Journal<\/i> changed its name to <i>The Easterne<\/i>r. (The image at left depicts<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>newsroom staff members in 1962. The photo below, circa 1960, shows the paper being printed on presses owned by the <i>Cheney Free Press.<\/i>) <i>The Easterner <\/i>newspaper today remains the voice of EWU&#8217;s student body, but with a twist \u2014 the \u201cpaper\u201d will no longer appear in print. Print publication was suspended at the onset of the pandemic, explains editor Randy Kinswa, then pulled indefinitely this past summer. \u201cThe decision was made to go online due to budget restrictions for this school year,\u201d Kinswa says. \u201cPrint media\u2019s decline in popularity was a secondary factor.\u201d <i>Easterner<\/i> staff weren\u2019t happy about the move, he adds, but acknowledged its necessity. Will print return? Not likely, Kinswa says. \u201cNew media is increasingly becoming more electronically centered, and it is a top-down economy in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1951, the publication that launched 35-years before as the State Normal School Journal changed its name to The Easterner. (The image at left depicts\u00a0 newsroom staff members in 1962. The photo below, circa 1960, shows the paper being printed on presses owned by the Cheney Free Press.) The Easterner newspaper today remains the<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/news\/papers-end\/\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":484,"featured_media":839,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1099","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","stories_categories-campus","stories_categories-students","stories_tags-fall-winter-2021"],"acf":{"featured_video":"","subheading":"","display_byline":false,"display_date_published":true,"Links":false,"Resources":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1102,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/1099\/revisions\/1102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}