Letter from the editor: Greetings from your new editor-in-chief!

Hello, Miami University!

My name is Olivia Patel, and I have taken over as The Miami Student’s new editor-in-chief. In other words, I will be working to lead a newspaper that best serves the student body, faculty, administration, alumni and other avid readers of our paper.

Essentially, I will be leading a newspaper that serves you.

What pressing issues would you like to see covered? What voices on campus are going unheard? What are you most interested in reading about?

Here at The Student, we have upheld a long tradition of excellence by reporting on breaking news on campus, conducting in-depth investigations to uncover the truth, writing profiles highlighting the amazing people at Miami and more. However, that representation only comes from knowing what is important to our readership and the students we represent here on campus.

We are in an age where college newspaper readership is at an all-time low. Students are less inclined to pick up our paper or go to our website for news first, because they are turning to social media as their main source of news. As editor-in-chief, it is my goal and responsibility to re-center our paper around the one population we are growing further and further away from: students.

After all, we are The Miami STUDENT newspaper.

So, please use the email below to keep us in the loop. Reach out about your student organization’s event or a rumor you’ve heard and want to see investigated. We have award-winning reporting skills and an enthusiastic editorial staff, but our readers are our eyes and ears. As editor-in-chief, I would like to be involved with what is going on here at Miami as much as possible, and I look forward to being a familiar face on campus.

I am blessed and excited to have the opportunity to lead such an esteemed newspaper with the hardworking staff I have come to know and love over the last three years.

Loyally,

Olivia Patel

Editor-in-Chief