I wrote this on Hatch on March 13, 2015, presented here without edit. See Hatching Inside Medium for context on this collection.

The College Journalism Opportunity

A student-run Medium publication could be the model for other college journalism programs

On March 13, Saul and I met with Toni Albertson, the journalism professor at Mt. San Antonio College outside of Los Angeles who moved her students’ journalism efforts — a newspaper and a lifestyle magazine — from print entirely onto Medium in the publication Substance. She brought two of her students with her (they were in town for a conference).

We already knew that they were getting a lot out of switching to Medium — she had…