In an effort to try out another digital option for news consumers, the University of Missouri School of Journalism is launching EmPRINT, a weekly downloadable version of the Columbia Missourian. Its purpose is to provide subscribers with a usable publication that allows them to either:
The first edition will be posted on Sunday, March 6. An edition is scheduled for every Sunday morning through May 8. Subscriptions are free during this test period.
The experiment is similar to a PDF book format that the Rocky Mountain News unveiled about a year and a half ago. In fact, that project was created by Roger Fidler, the digital-news-tablet pioneer who is also behind EmPRINT. Fidler is the inaugural Visiting Fellow of the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri.
Peter Johnson of USA Today elaborates on the experiment in this article.
