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WWU student’s Breakout Magazine offers writers, bands opportunity

In September 2021, Natalie Vinh saw a need for a local music publication. About a month later, she launched Breakout Magazine.

Managed entirely by Vinh, Breakout is a collaborative online music magazine that aims to cover bands and artists who are just breaking out (hence, the name) and…

2022-05-19
Students honored by Society for Professional Journalists 2013-05-30
Students' enthusiasm inspires the experienced

It was supposed to be the other way around.

When the student newspaper adviser at Western Washington University asked us to meet with his students in Bellingham last week, he wanted us to talk about our careers and the changing newspaper industry. Convince them there is a future in…

2013-05-20
Western Washington University campus newspaper back to 1899 now online and searchable

From student life in the early 1900s to a campus strike after the Kent State shootings in 1970, The Western Front has covered goings-on at Western Washington University for more than a century.

Until recently, people who wanted to read old issues of the student newspaper had to visit…

2012-09-14
Debit card dings draw complaints at LCC

Driven by student displeasure about high — and unusual — fees they are being charged, Lane Community College may drop or change its contract with Higher One, the company the college has paid for five years to disburse grants, scholarships and loans to students.

The school, along with…

2012-05-21
Wash. University Partners With City SWAT Team

An inter-local agreement approved in January allows selected Western Washington University police officers to train with the city police department’s SWAT team.

2012-05-01
Digging into meat pies delivers the scoop on rising gas prices

A little journalism lesson learned: Sometimes, the best way to find out about something is to stop talking to spokespeople — and start listening to their stomachs.

With spiking local gas prices being partially blamed on the Feb. 17 fire that swept through the BP…

2012-03-05
WWU student journalists honored with national awards 2011-05-04
Western Libraries Digital Collection preserves WWU student newspaper 2011-04-27
Reporter Steve Johnston, Everett native, dies

"Steve Johnston, Everett native and longtime Seattle Times reporter and columnist, has died.

For years, Johnston wrote a Sunday humor column for the newspaper that occasionally touched on his experience with multiple sclerosis."

2010-06-21
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