As Bobcats enter their fourth week of classes, The Post has just finished producing its fourth week of daily online content and fifth print issue of the school year. For over a century, The Post has been committed to providing its readers with the information they need and want to know.
In December of 1911, the first issue of the Green and White was published for Ohio University students and Athens community members to read. In the fall of 1939, it was rebranded as The Post. The Post remained a daily newspaper until 2016, transitioning into a digital-first model with daily content uploaded on its website and a weekly paper.
It was also in 2016 when the format of the paper changed from a broadsheet to a tabloid. This year is the first year the print edition is in the tall tabloid format.
Despite all these aesthetic and model changes, The Post has not faltered in reporting the news on a local and national level. From the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 to the Sept. 11 attacks to the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020, The Post has always strived to deliver factual and professional reporting.
The Post currently has a staff of over 370 students who all participate in different sections. There are six editorial sections: News, Human Interest, Sports, Opinion, Entertainment and Copy. On the visual side, there are Art/Design and Photography. Additionally, the digital sections include Web Development, Audience Engagement and Multimedia. As a staff, The Post publishes a minimum of 15 pieces of content daily to the website. Five of those are voted on to be the top stories of the following day and featured on the website’s homepage. All content is posted on Facebook and X, with the top stories being published on Instagram.
On the print side, every week 3,000 copies are printed Monday night and distributed Tuesday morning to more than 78 locations on OU’s campus and around the Athens community.
The Post has been recognized with multiple awards from the Ohio News Media Association, including the Frank E. Deaner Award for Excellence in Collegiate Journalism 2017-2020 and in 2023. Furthermore, The Post has been presented with awards from the National College Media Convention hosted by the Associated Collegiate Press and College Media Association. The Post staff has received numerous Region 4 Society of Professional Journalist Mark of Excellence Awards, and in 2023 was a National Mark of Excellence Award Winner for “Best Affiliated Website.”
The primary mission of The Post is to serve readers in a civic, engaging and entertaining manner, and to do so in a rapid and professional fashion that supports The Post’s long-standing legacy as a premier media outlet in Athens, Ohio.
As always, thank you for reading The Post.
Editorials represent the majority opinion of The Post's executive editors: Editor-in-Chief Alyssa Cruz, Managing Editor Madalyn Blair and Equity Director McKenna Christy. Post editorials are independent of the publication's news coverage.
