[Imc-newsroom] could someone write a story for Bloomington Normal's indy?

[Nick Berveiler]

Our second issue of the indy is out and is a labor day oriented issue with 
some history of labor in Bloomington Normal thanks to Mike Matejka. 
Unfortunately, I am the only person who gets out to Urbana to distribute 
the paper and I won't be in town until this coming Sunday. I wasn't able to 
make it out to Urbana last Sunday. If I could get people who are working on 
the distribution of the "public i" to work on distribution of the indy as 
well in Urbana I think greatly appreciate it. The only place I have been 
distributing the indy is at the Urbana IMC. If anyone has recommendations 
of places to distribute, please let me know. I can work on distribution of 
the "public i" in Bloomington Normal.

Our next issue is going to be criticisms about the Vidette, ISU's student 
newspaper. I think it would be great if I can get a news story about what 
its like in Urbana having two conservative newspapers (local and student) 
with a perspective from people working on independent media. The media 
situation here is similar to what's happening in Urbana Champaign except I 
think you all have more resources than we do. (U-C IMC, WEFT, School for 
Designing a Society)

Themes for the story could be about what its like in Urbana: Do students 
pay attention to the daily illini and not the news gazette? (a lot of 
students here seem to only read the Vidette and not the Pantagraph) What is 
so horrible about the media in Urbana that has inspired you all to take up 
news reporting for yourselves? What similarities have you noticed between 
the media situation in U-C compared to B-N? How can both cities communicate 
with each other more through the media?

Ideally this story would be best written by someone in Urbana since you all 
read the news gazette and daily illini enough to know where these media 
outlets have failed you. Otherwise, I would probably just write this story 
myself.

Our next issue will be coming out Thursday, Sept 13th and a deadline for a 
submission would probably be by next week Tuesday at the latest. If someone 
is interested in writing such a story, please let me know that you are 
working on a story. This news story could also be written in the distant 
future and would still be considered relevant to B-N's indy. If anyone has 
an old story with similar themes that might be able to be re-written for 
our paper.

Nick