A Private, For-Profit Campus Newspaper Gains a Monopoly at a Public University

Florida State's ad-filled biweekly is entrepreneurs' success, but does it go light on the news?

Early on a Tuesday morning in late May, the offices of Florida State University's campus newspaper buzzed with breaking news. Editors tore up the front page to make room for a new headline: The city's daily newspaper had announced that it would cease publication of break, an entertainment weekly aimed at Tallahassee's sizable student population.

The news amounted to more than just a

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