News Digest Survey

Dear News Digest reader:

Each day, the Office of University Relations publishes and mails this News Digest to you. News Digest has existed in this format-using photocopies of actual newspaper clippings or wire stories- for at least 15 years. University Relations seeks to use new technologies and methods to make this publication more timely and complete. Before we make any wholesale changes, we want to ask you, the reader, what you think about this product. Please take a moment to answer these questions and submit this form.

1. How often do you read News Digest? (choose one)

Every day

Once or twice a week

Never

2. Do you read News Digest on the day it is published? Yes No

3. Are the articles in News Digest useful to you? Yes No

4. About News Digest content: is there too much to read? Yes No

5 Which articles are most important to you? Please rate the importance of each topic area on a scale of 0 to 5, with 0 being unimportant and 5 being very important.

About Ohio State policies

About Ohio State events

About Ohio State research

Employee obituaries

About trends in higher education

About other Ohio colleges and universities

6. Many newspapers that we clip now publish a web version. Is it important to you to see the actual newspaper clippings or would a web version of the same story suffice?

I want to see clippings

Web version is fine.

7. How do you use News Digest?

I post it on a bulletin board for the department to read

I keep articles about topics that I need to stay current on

I read it and then throw it out

8. University Relations spends considerable resources to obtain newspaper clippings about Ohio State faculty research.

Do you read articles on faculty research? Yes No

Do you notice where they were published? Yes No

9. What would you like to see in News Digest that currently is not there?

Sports

Calendar listings

Comics

News of TV coverage of Ohio State stories

Other: please list

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