The Torch is something I routinely pick up each week, but unlike most students, I'm taking a journalism class. What I've been wondering is how many students actually pick it up. It would be interesting to poll students, with not only obvious questions such as "Do you read the Torch," and "Is the content to your liking?" but ones to figure the demographic of readers. This could be done by asking students majors, minors, class years and so forth. I'm sure this has been done before, but it still seems like an interesting story.
Like Mac said, polling may be hard to do so you may want to consider a different avenue, even though this may be difficult.
ReplyDeleteI think it might actually be interesting to get the audience's perception on the content of the Torch. Do they like the stories being covered? This might be a good assessment if a college newspaper is accurately targeting its audience.
I feel like this has definitely been thought of before, but with so many students on campus it'd probably be difficult to get an accurate reading. If you do this story maybe try to get the opinions of a variety of students, or at least a large enough number of them where you're sure to get the information you need.
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