The Post’s newsroom has always held its history as the century-old publication on campus as a pointed source of esteem and pride — it is something that drives our “Posties” to continue their work each day.
During Homecoming — especially with this year’s theme — it is almost impossible to forget that The Post has continued its existence largely as a source of documenting Ohio University’s history.
Technically, it first did so as the The Green and White in 1911, then as The Ohio University Post in 1939. And The Post has changed its publication design, its distribution rate, its newsroom location (Pilcher House, “Old Baker”) and more, but has luckily refused to change its purpose: seek out and thoroughly report what is happening on campus, through whatever means possible.
So, our college publication has reported on wars overseas, countless student-led protests, the election of 13 U.S. presidents (and will report on another come November). Importantly, The Post has accomplished those feats through the unique lens we are allowed as a student-run paper — one that reflects the voice of the undergraduate population in Athens, and the voice of the OU faculty, administration and residents of Athens that hope to connect with it.
Even as The Post exists now through a daily website operation and weekly print product, readers see our newsroom striving to do what it has done now for so long: reach, inform and relate to each reader. That is no easy job, and the hundreds of “Posties” who have passed through our publication would certainly agree that much is unlikely to change. But that shared goal is something that makes our newsroom closer, even a century after its inception.
It is also something the reader might enjoy with the special Homecoming edition of The Post, which still features our regular in-depth reporting, coupled with the tireless dedication of our sports staff in its reporting on the Bobcats and their game against the Falcons on Saturday. Plus, for those readers who catch us every day on thepostathens.com, we have devoted several stories specifically to covering our unique and vast alumni population.
Thanks for sticking with us all these years, and happy Homecoming!
— Emma Ockerman is a senior studying journalism and editor-in-chief of The Post. Want to talk to her? Email her at eo300813@ohio.edu or tweet her @eockerman.
