Thoughtful post-mortem on the Red & Black upheaval at UGa primarily from the board’s point of view. Useful to hear more detail from the two board members who resigned.

The irony in all this is that the top down recommendations/orders on how the students can turn around readership deficits is coming from a board with many pros who themselves have not figured out how to turn things around in the commercial press. In short, the money problems affecting commercial journalism are hitting the college press as well.

Duh.

The PR disaster could have been avoided, perhaps, if everyone — students and advisers and board — had been brought into the survival planning process together instead of the grown-ups issuing a directive that students were expected to follow without question with the most flimsy of rationales imaginable — “because we said so.”

Sigh.

Ready to put a bow on this topic for a while.