Ernie Boch Jr. Had Everything the BU Free Press Was Looking For
Some high-profile figures stepped up in a major way this week after Boston University’s student newspaper pleaded for emergency donations.
Only days after Daily Free Press Editor-in-Chief Kyle Plantz announced the paper would not survive past December without paying off a “large portion’’ of its nearly $68,000 debt, the paper was able to raise over $80,000 in an online fundraising drive.
“We’re extremely happy and just feel so lucky for the support,’’ Plantz told the Boston Globe. “I’m still completely shocked that it took literally two days.’’
Over $20,000 came from 336 individual donors on the group’s GoFundMe page, though two major donations helped to put the group over the top: $10,000 from former Free Press student journalist and current Fox News personality Bill O’Reilly and $50,000 from local car dealer Ernie Boch Jr.
Plantz told the Globe that he didn’t expect the paper to exceed its fundraising goal, but it had done just that by early Thursday morning.
A post on the paper’s Facebook page indicates the students will consider their options before announcing plans for the surplus funding.
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