College Heights Herald is Soft News

1. Saudi Delgation visits WKU
2. Board of Regents to Meet Jan. 25th
3. Miss Kentucky USA, Miss Kentucky Teen Pageants at WKU Jan.19-20
4. Hardin Reappointed to African American Commission
5. WKU Graduate named to position with public relations firm
6. 2 photojournalism graduates take top honors in Heart Multimedia contest
7. Winter Weather communications plan 
8. 3 Professors receive state nature award
9. Tickets on sale for Lone Star's Rodeo's 2013 Show at Ag Expo Center Feb. 8-10
10. Inagural KHSAA Competitive Cheer Championships Jan. 26 at Diddle Arena

WKU favors college community based stories the most. These are stories directly related to campus students and events. They are soft news stories. None of these stories were in the Bowling Green news paper. 

Sometimes the news stories from the Herald do make an impact on local news, but from what I can tell it is not very often. I do think that the size of the news paper and staff makes a difference on how press releases are handled. 

It is a good thing, I think. The paper is not a hard news paper though. With most of it's publications under the soft news category, it is certainly not a bad thing. While the paper does need some hard news stories, in which public relations is a bad thing. But most college students are interested on what's happening within the college community. If they want to read about bigger things they'll go to another paper. In regards to promoting a healthy dialogue in the community I think they are doing a good job and not publishing things not worthy of the news, however I really do not care about tickets on sale for a rodeo or cheer leading championships.