Written by:
Laiyin Li

The Undoing of UWIRE?

For those who haven’t heard of UWIRE, it’s a popular online service that aggregates university articles written by students and for students concerning global events and issues. However, you won’t be hearing from UWIRE anytime soon perhaps: all voices once amplified on the website have now fallen silent in the last month or so, since UWIRE became suspended “indefinitely”. Employees have not disclosed much information on the suspension, but it is speculated to be a result of inadequate financing as can be inferred from the unhappily unpaid (for the month of September) student reporters hired by UWIRE.

UWIRE was started in 1994 and previously owned by CBS before being sold to Palestra.net, another college student news network service in March. Rarely any drastic changes took place after the turnover…that is, until now. The economy has already seen signs of recovery, but is a lagging effect in work at UWIRE? For now, the only answer is the deathly quiet.

To read a blog article on this issue by a past UWIRE employee, click here.