I used to be the online manager at my college newspaper (http://mndaily.com http://mndaily.com). Working in the newspaper publishing environment is challenging

I used to be the online manager at my college newspaper (http://mndaily.com http://mndaily.com). Working in the newspaper publishing environment is challenging for programmers. For instance, while online advertising made up a sizeable portion of the paper's revenue many of the salepeople at the paper had no idea where the ad spots were on the site or even what a CPM is. Also challenging was working with different departments that had different workflows. We had to support the editorial process, the sales process, the hiring process, etc. But wanting to get programmers for nothing is crazy. The programmers at the Daily were among the highest paid employees (only editor-in-chief, controller, and president were paid more than the online staff I believe) there and it would still takes months to fill a position with someone who had any competence (knew HTML and could write something more than Hello World in PHP). While I know times are tough this is pretty disgraceful. College newspapers offer a good opportunity to get training in programming and allow prospective coders to start working with teams and real projects. But doing it for no pay really makes it a non-option.