JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Spinnaker, the University of North Florida?s weekly student-operated campus newspaper, is officially launching off campus into the greater community of Jacksonville on Wednesday.
This will be the 25-year-old newspaper?s first such effort, allowing the Spinnaker to better reach the more than three-quarters of the UNF student body who live off campus, according to a news release.
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The Spinnaker will place its blue newspaper boxes at Applebee?s at the St. Johns Town Center, Mellow Mushroom on Southside Boulevard, Pita Pit at Jacksonville Beach, Green Room Brewery at Jacksonville Beach, and Wild Wings Café on Southside Boulevard.
Spinnaker Editor-In-Chief Chance Ryan said this moment ?signifies the Spinnaker as a prestigious college newspaper.?
The paper recently won its first Pacemaker award, often referred to as the college Pulitzer Prize. The Associated Collegiate Press gives the annual award to the best college newspaper in the country. Ryan said he believes that the launch ?marks another milestone? in Spinnaker history.
The Spinnaker is looking to reach downtown Jacksonville, as well, in the near future, according to the news release.
The Spinnaker also publishes its paper online at UNFSpinnaker.com.
UNF?s first student newspaper started in January 1974 and was called the Halyard, which was later renamed Campus Up-Date in 1976. On Aug. 17, 1977, the student newspaper was dubbed the Spinnaker, the same name it has held for more than 30 years.