This fall, The Lantern and its team of 23 student editors and more than 40 student reporters moved to a new newsroom located on the first floor of the Journalism Building. The entrance to the new space is in the main lobby of the building, giving the award-winning organization a much higher profile on campus.
The Lantern, founded in 1881, has had a variety of homes over the years, but has been housed in the Journalism Building for almost a century. For the past few decades, it occupied a space on the second floor, tucked away in the back of the building.
The new newsroom features video and podcast studios as well as an updated broadcast television news studio that serves both as a classroom and a computer lab for video editing. The space also has offices and a meeting room, as well as two new state-of-the-art video production studios, one of which is shared with the Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts.
The new newsroom was formally dedicated this fall as part of the School of Communication’s first ever all-school alumni reunion. The Lantern welcomed CNN’s chief domestic correspondent and anchor Phil Mattingly, along with Nancy Kramer, a lifetime entrepreneur in marketing and technology, to speak at the newsroom dedication.
In honor of the new newsroom, The Lantern also produced a commemorative edition titled Turning the Page, a first-of-its-kind issue featuring reflections from 21 Lantern alumni spanning the 1960s through the 2020s.
To close the dedication, alumni, faculty, students and Brutus gathered in the newsroom to sing Carmen Ohio.