Illini Media
The Illini Media Company is a nonprofit media corporation based in Champaign, IL. The company owns several student-run media outlets associated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: the general newspaper the Daily Illini, entertainment paper Buzz, local entertainment website The217.com, engineering quarterly Technograph, U of I yearbook the Illio, and commercial radio station WPGU. However, the company does not receive funding from the University of Illinois or the College of Media, and instead is funded independently.
The Illini Publishing Company was chartered by the State of Illinois in 1911. In 1984, it became the Illini Media Company. The company helps students prepare for and careers in print media and broadcasing, and to inform and entertain the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign community. Revenues exceed $2.5 million.
In 2012, the Illini Media sought support and alumni to keep its business running. Prominent alumni, such as film critic Roger Ebert, urged alumni to donate to the corporation. Additionally, a referendum passed to allow a fee on student's tuition to go towards the company.
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“Never before has a generation of parents faced such awesome competition with the mass media for their children’s attention. While parents tout the virtues of premarital virginity, drug-free living, nonviolent resolution of social conflict, or character over physical appearance, their values are daily challenged by television soaps, rock music lyrics, tabloid headlines, and movie scenes extolling the importance of physical appearance and conformity.”
—Marianne E. Neifert (20th century)