UWM Post vs Marquette Tribune? (high school, students, newspapers)

[mattymicky]

Which newspaper is better written? How do the topics each paper features differ?

Do either of these student run newspapers seem to have a certain political ideology?

Why? Thanks!

[Devitron5000]

As a former (and soon-to-be current, again) contributor to the UWM Post, I have to say that the Marquette Tribune is hands-down the better paper. This has everything to do with the fact that Marquette has one of the better journalism departments in the entire country and therefore attracts students who take their contributions more seriously. The UWM Post will let just about anyone contribute, which can be good on occasion, but most of the time it just ends up bringing the paper down to high school level. Just about the only thing the UWM Post has on the Marquette Tribune is their music and arts coverage. Although the Marquette Tribune has its own flaws such as printing stories off the wire which is really just a waste of newsprint for a student paper.

As far as political leanings. Neither paper has any overt ones, but UWM's student body tends to lean left and Marquette's leans right, so that's definitely reflected in their coverage. UWM used to have a right-wing paper called The Leader, which was really more like a tabloid (and that's not my opinion, it's "reporting" really was that much worse than the Post's, which is saying a lot). Marquette has had its share of right-leaning papers over the years as well, but I'm not aware of any that lasted for more than a couple semesters.