The Executive Board of the Student Union of the University of Lapland appointed a new student media commitee and tasked the committee with drawing up a plan to preserve journalistic publication in the student community. Roope Rantala, chairman of LYY’s board, was elected chairman of the committee, and Esa-Pekka Tuppi, LYY’s community specialist, was elected as the secretary. The other members of the committee were elected Åsa Niemi, the editor-in-chief of Lapland’s student newspaper, Jesse Pöllänen, the vice-chairman of LYY’s board, and board members Inka Salo and Aku Westerholm.
“LYY’s new executive board is strongly committed to working for the preservation of some kind of journalistic publication in the student community. We wanted to establish a separate committee so that the matter would be prepared especially carefully”, says Roope Rantala, the chair of the executive board.
Last November, LYY’s representative board approved the student union’s budget and action plan for 2024. In the budget, money was set aside for one issue of Lapland’s student magazine and the expenses related to the establishment of a new journalistic publication.
In the new plan of operations, the representative council decided to stop publishing Lapland’s student newspaper. However, the representative council wanted some kind of journalistic publication to be preserved in the student community. In the plan of operations, LYY’s executive board was authorized to prepare a plan for the future of the journalistic publication, which the board now further authorized the student media committee to do.
The task of the committee is to prepare the project plan mentioned in the plan of operations for the board. The plan must take a position on what kind of organization the magazine will continue to operate as, and in addition, the plan must plan in detail how the functional changes will be implemented. The executive board of the student union decides on the implementation of the plan separately.
“It is not yet clear by whom and how the journalistic publication will be made in the future or what the future publication will look like, but these issues will be resolved in the planning work itself. During the preparation, we will organize a separate hearing, where all students will have the opportunity to be heard and take a stand on the matter,” says Rantala.
Additonal information:
Roope Rantala
The Chair of The Executive Board
Telephone +358 45 137 9026