As UCF paper shuts down, alums recall its legacy
Freshman Jillian James was a journalism rookie, so freshly hired at the UCF student paper this spring that she had not yet visited the newsroom.
But then there was breaking news: reports — later determined to be false — that a woman brought a gun into the University of Central Florida library.
James hurried to the library to document what was happening for the Central Florida Future, the weekly paper that has chronicled life on campus since 1968, five years after the school opened. It made her feel like a true reporter to rush to the scene while others fled.
On Wednesday afternoon, hours before her final deadline, James said she felt sad as the paper readied its final edition.
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