The Clackamas Print is the student newspaper

Student newspaper

A student newspaper is a newspaper run by students of a university, high school, middle school, or other school. These papers traditionally cover local and, primarily, school or university news....

 of Clackamas Community College

Clackamas Community College

Clackamas Community College is a community college located in Oregon City, Oregon, United States. It is located at the junction of Oregon Route 213 and Molalla Avenue, nearly at the southern edge of the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area...

. It was established in 1966. According to the newspaper's staff and information box, its goal is to "report the news in an honest, unbiased, professional manner." The Print has a loose relationship with Clackamas News Online, the college's video journalism outlet. CNO is incorporated into the paper's website, but is mostly unafiliated with the paper.

Distribution

The paper is distributed every Wednesday, typically excluding the first two weeks of a term and finals week. It is distributed across the college's main campus by hand and mailed to the satellite campuses, and has been distributed off campus.

Staff

Participation in The Print is offered through credit courses in Clackamas Community's journalism department. The staff consists of students who have signed up for at least one of the two production-oriented classes: one focusing on the writing and photography used in the paper, and the other to layout each week's paper.

Crisis in leadership

In the fall of 2006, The Print broke a story about the college's president, Earl P. "Joe" Johnson, after he was asked to step down by eleven of the college deans. The incident drew attention not only toward Johnson himself, but also toward The Print. After the story was picked up by other area papers, including The Oregonian

The Oregonian

The Oregonian is the major daily newspaper in Portland, Oregon, owned by Advance Publications. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper on the U.S. west coast, founded as a weekly by Thomas J. Dryer on December 4, 1850...

, columnist Andy Parker interviewed Print Co-Editor-In-Chiefs Sam Krause and Katie Wilson about their coverage of the situation. Krause and Wilson later won a first-place award from the 2007 Collegiate Newspaper Contest for their editorial on Johnson's separation from the college.