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Saturday 10.3.2001
Ten Years of Students Behind Festival News
In March 1992, Festival News reported: the Kino-Palatsi theater's death struggle continues. This year, the same topic appears in our pages. Ten years ago the newspaper came out for the first time as a student effort in cooperation with the festival. Much of the subject matter is the same, but the staff changes each year.
Festival News (Festivaaliuutiset) used to be a festival publication with freelance contributors. Meanwhile, the university's journalism students were doing practice articles about the festival.
Kirsi Kinnunen, part of the festival's executive team in 1991, saw the articles and suggested that students take over the paper. Since 1992 the Festival News has provided a valuable week-long training for journalism students.
"During the festival we get some professional practice - get our foot in the door, so to speak. I realized that I was in the right place and that I liked the fast paced work," commented one of the contributors to the first student-made newspaper. Encouraging responses are what keep the cooperation going from one year to the next.
Everyone benefits. The up-and-coming journalists try their hand at putting together a real publication, and the festival gets the kind of newspaper that they wouldn't otherwise be able to afford.
The Festival News has also gone on-line, with traditional and experimental journalism, a large link collection, multimedia and games.
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