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A New and Surprising Competitor for College Newspapers

July 28, 2008 RSS Feed Print

College Media Network, easily the largest distributor of college newspapers online, has launched its own network of college-related websites that compete with its own clients, Inside Higher Ed reports. To the dismay of some college newspaper editors and business managers, the company introduced a beta version of Campus Daily Guides, a group of sites that feature event calendars and restaurant and bar directories for individual campuses, along with info from Rate My Professor and links to campus news, direct from college newspapers themselves.

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