{"id":64,"date":"2025-04-10T18:47:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T18:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2025-04-17T13:19:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T13:19:05","slug":"mhn-goes-digital","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/mhn-goes-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>MHN<\/i> Goes Digital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the help of an alumna donor, the staff of <em>The Mount Holyoke News <\/em>purchased new computers and scanners in 1989, allowing them to transition from the old-fashioned cut and paste method of production to the digital age. During this time, <em>MHN <\/em>was produced for the first time, fully in-house, whereas previously, printing had been outsourced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another technological leap occurred in 1996, when under editor-in-chief Elizabeth Cook, class of 1996, <em>The<\/em> <em>Mount Holyoke News <\/em>became the first college newspaper of a women\u2019s college to be published online. Being on the internet made it easier to access the <em>MHN <\/em>than ever before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/compass.fivecolleges.edu\/islandora\/object\/mtholyoke%3A106461\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"943\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/SiteBytes-e1744722928745-943x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The News is the first women's college newspaper on the Web.\" class=\"wp-image-102\" style=\"width:600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/SiteBytes-e1744722928745-943x1024.jpg 943w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/SiteBytes-e1744722928745-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/SiteBytes-e1744722928745-768x834.jpg 768w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/SiteBytes-e1744722928745.jpg 1165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 943px) 100vw, 943px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Announcement of the Mount Holyoke News website, November 7, 1996.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the help of an alumna donor, the staff of The Mount Holyoke News purchased new computers and scanners in 1989, allowing them to transition from the old-fashioned cut and paste method of production to the digital age. During this time, MHN was produced for the first time, fully in-house, whereas previously, printing had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2199,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-nosidebar.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-64","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}