College Publisher
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College Publisher is an online hosted college
College
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 newspaper
Newspaper
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 system used by hundreds of college newspapers around the United States
United States
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. The product is an application service provider
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 that provides web site design and hosting. In exchange for providing the web hosting service, the company receives national advertising rights on website, the email news version, and the physical print edition of the newspaper. College Publisher currently has partnered with more than 450 publications nationwide, comprising the largest network of online student newspapers in the United States
United States
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.

College Publisher was created in 1999 by Emerson College
Emerson College
Emerson College is a private coeducational university located in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a "school of oratory," Emerson is "the only comprehensive college or university in America dedicated exclusively to communication and the arts in a liberal arts...

 students and is largely operated by recent graduates. The system is owned by Y2M Networks, located in Government Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Government Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Government Center is an area in downtown Boston, bounded by Cambridge, Court, Congress, and Sudbury Streets. Formerly the site of Scollay Square, it is now the location of Boston City Hall, two Suffolk County courthouses, two state office buildings, and two federal office buildings, a major MBTA...

, which was purchased in August 2006 by mtvU
MtvU
mtvU is a division of Viacom's MTV Networks which produces a 24-hour television channel that is available on more than 750 college and university campuses across the United States, as well as several digital cable packages...

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A private investment group acquired College Publisher from mtvU in 2010.

The CP servers were hit with an DDoS attack in early Feb. 2010, causing a large number of student publications to lose multiple weeks worth of content. The issue has not been resolved as of the end of March 2010.

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