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The basement of the YMCA on 1001 S. Wright St. Illini Media will move into this new location after the first week of June, after having spent 12 years at its current location on Green Street.
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Illini Media to move to YMCA could afford.” Costello said moving to the YMCA will put the company into a better financial situation and will place The Daily Illini — an independent student newspaper— close to Gregory Hall, where the Department of Journalism is located. “With the circumstances we have, the students have been very good and very understanding about making the move, and I can understand it’s nice to be on the fancy Green Street area and all that good stuff,” Costello said. “On the other
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The Daily Illini will be saying goodbye to its Green Street location in June after 12 years. It will move into the basement of the YMCA, located at 1001 S. Wright St. “The Daily Illini has a very lovely building on Green Street, which I was a part of, the board was a part of,” said Tom Costello, Illini Media board president, said. “But we came to realize that based on where our business is, where our business model was, it was probably a bit more building than what we
hand, we have a nice, affordable space and we just want to make it work for us.” Melissa Pasco, co-publisher and general manager of Illini Media, said The Daily Illini will be officially renting with YMCA starting April 1 but won’t be operating from the new location until the first week of June, by the earliest. The move will downsize the office space from around 7,000 square feet to around 3,000 square feet, Pasco said. “I think it’s going to be a little bit of a challenge. We’ll
be on top of each other a little bit more and have to learn to work in smaller space with each other,” she said. Illini Media Company originally owned the building at 512 E. Green St. that currently houses The Daily Illini, WPGU, Illio and Technograph, but consolidated and operated on a five-year lease. Pasco said the current office space will be converted into apartments after the move. “Revenue continues to shrink, especially in the print side. It’s really hard to make up all that print money
from digital, so the former publishers were looking at other locations,” Pasco said. We considered consolidating even further.” The board ultimately decided that the YMCA will be more economical and will put The Daily Illini closer to the heart of the campus, she said. The idea was to further solidify the future of the company. “If I had a choice of spending money on rent or spending money to send students to conferences, I’m sending you to a conference,” Costello said.
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He said that expectations will remain for The Daily Illini to be a top student newspaper in the state after the move. “We built this building in 2005, and it’s beautiful and expensive, but I feel like the Illini Media and The Daily Illini are more than the building that they’re in,” Pasco said. “So whether it is operating out of this location or the basement of the (YMCA), the location is not as important as securing the future of the company.”
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