JULY 22, 2025: BURY POST PRESS RELEASE

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Hitting the ground running as a relatively new media source in the 2024 to 2025 academic period, The Bury Post’s first full year of operation was marked with ups and downs, incoming staffers and outgoing members, and a host of successes at Salisbury University.

Our team started off strong, working tirelessly to churn out a plethora of student activity articles to be disbursed at several student involvement fair tables. Although we were prohibited from using a table to promote the organization due to our lack of official status, members were able to talk to dozens of students and spark curiosity for many curious freshmen.

At our first September interest meeting, we served pizza and drinks to students who stopped by our reserved study room in the library. James Huff, our Managing Editor, and Lucas Bruno, our News Editor, were among the new members attending this meeting. The Bury Post would not be what it is today without these extraordinary editors.

A few weeks later, The Bury Post joined forces with another Independent news source that had been tackling crucial issues on campus; The Salisbury Examiner. Signing a merger agreement, Editor in Chief Colin McEvers and Examiner Editor Luke Hartlaub agreed to mutually prioritize, uphold and promote freedom of expression, high journalistic quality, and truly independent news on campus and beyond.

By October, 2024, The Bury Post made a signature accomplishment by producing 350 copies of a physical student newspaper, the first student-created Salisbury University newspaper to be created in approximately two years. The issue was entirely funded by students within The Bury Post. Members of the campus community were enamored by the free copies that editors and staffers disseminated, the excitement for which pushed our publication to release a second edition in March, 2025.

In the second semester, we recruited one of our best and most committed staffers, Mac Smith, who approached our newspaper about involvement in SU’s Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and eventually began working for The Bury Post. Around this time, Aubrey Davis, a highly talented photographer and truly a master of his craft, became our official sports photographer, and has contributed professional photos for dozens of SU sports games. 

On April 1, 2025, The Bury Post finally garnered status as an official Registered Student Organization (RSO), which our members earned by providing enhanced, high quality student media service to the SU community. Jeremy Cox, an adjunct communications professor who had previously served as Advisor for The Flyer, joined our organization as the official Faculty Advisor.

With the ability to reserve a room for meetings, organize tabling events on campus, and to legitimately recruit student members, our newspaper is poised to make an even greater dent on the SU community with investigative reporting, consistent coverage of stories that matter, and broader outreach in the 2025 to 2026 academic year.

We wish our former Student Life Editor, Phillip Nguyen, an incredibly successful and exciting life beyond Salisbury University. As veteran editors and founders graduate, it is important to stress that our younger staffers are eager to step up to the plate and carry on the critical work we do at The Bury Post.

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