The East Carolinian
| Type | Bi-weekly Newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | East Carolina University |
| Founded | 1925 |
| Headquarters | 100F Self Help Building Greenville, North Carolina 27858 |
| Website | www.theeastcarolinian.com |
The East Carolinian is the student newspaper of East Carolina University in Greenville, NC USA. It is entirely student-ran and independent from the university. The East Carolinian dates back to Dec. 1925. The ECU Student Media Board "provides oversight and direction to the student newspaper"[1] The newspaper has a circulation of 9,000 copies per issue in the Spring and Fall semesters and 5,000 copies per issue in the Summer. The newspaper comes out on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Spring and Fall semesters and on Wednesdays in the Summer.
Content
The East Carolinian prints coverage for its Tuesday and Thursday editions (in the fall and spring semesters) and Wednesday editions (in the summer) on News, Lifestyles, Sports, Opinion, and Pirate Rants (the most popular section).
Operations and Recent News
The East Carolinian goes to press two issues per week in the fall and spring semesters, and once a week during the summer. The newspaper is printed out by Cooke Communications North Carolina, LLC (The Daily Reflector) in Greenville, NC.
East Carolina University students have won four awards from the Southeast Journalism Conference, including the coveted College Journalist of the Year.The students from ECU’s Office of Student Media were among winners recognized at a SEJC annual meeting held Feb. 11 to 13 at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, La. The College Journalist of the Year Award went to Carlton Purvis for his work at The East Carolinian, ECU’s student-run newspaper.
Purvis was a copy editor and news editor at The East Carolinian. After graduating in December with a double major in journalism and anthropology, Purvis is a multimedia journalist at the Morning News in Florence, S.C. He is a Clarksville, Tenn., native who served in the U.S. Marines from 2004 to 2006. He received a $1,000 prize for the award, which the SEJC panel of media experts gave based on journalistic ability, leadership skills, appreciation for journalism's ethical and legal responsibilities, and potential for future success, among other attributes.
Former news editor Samantha Hughes, a communication major from Fayetteville, won second place in the SEJC on-site competition in the News Rewrite category. Editorial cartoonist Adrian Parhamovich placed fourth in the Best News-Editorial Artist-Illustrator category. Parhamovich is an art major with a concentration in animation and interactive design.
Expressions, ECU’s student-produced multicultural magazine, won sixth place in the Best College Magazine category. Chaunte Rucker, a business administration major, was 2009 general manager of Expressions. The winter/spring 2010 edition was printed and released this week.
This was the first year ECU has entered the SEJC competition. ECU was the only N.C. school to win awards at the conference. Hughes and Katelyn Crouse, editor of The East Carolinian, attended the conference, which included journalism workshops and discussions with more than 200 students across the Southeast.
Editorial staff
- Editor-in-Chief: Caitlin Spivey Hale
- News Editor: Jennifer Soares
- Sports Editor: Michael Perry III
- Lifestyles Editor:Rebecca Blanchette
- Opinion Editor: Kelly Nurge
- Copy Editors: Brian Havens and Hunter Ingram
Production staff
- Production Manager:Katie Hatfield
- Production Designers:Lou Grayson and Maggie DeMar
Professional staff
- Adviser/Student Media Director: Paul Isom
- Advertising Director: Genevia Hill
- Office/Classifieds Manager: Jeffrey Jones