About the UB Reporter
UB Reporter and “This Week @ UB”
A great place to work deserves great internal communications. The UB Reporter and “This Week @ UB” are essential internal communications tools for UB faculty and staff.
They were developed by University Communications, guided by the expressed desire of employees for timely, effective internal communications that are relevant to them and their work, and that enhance the experience of working at UB.
UB Reporter is a weekly online faculty/staff newspaper that focuses on the people, the community and the university by providing important information, as well as interesting news and feature stories. It strategically aligns audiences with what is happening across the university. UB Reporter also offers a publishing vehicle for multimedia, and allows its audience to interact with the product. UB Reporter is updated as major news breaks.
“This Week @ UB” aggregates top news and announcements for the week into a short, concise read and forecasts key news and events on the horizon. It is designed as a 90-second read.
Contact Information
UB Reporter330 Crofts Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260
716-645-2626
email: ub-reporter@buffalo.edu
Publishing Schedule
Published by the Office of University Communications in the Division of External Affairs at the University at Buffalo.
- The UB Reporter is published on Wednesdays weekly throughout the calendar year and is updated as major news breaks.
- This Week @ UB greets all employees in their inbox when they open their UB email accounts every Monday.
Feedback
Letters will be printed in the UB Reporter and may be submitted here or to ub-reporter@buffalo.edu.
Comments from current UB faculty, staff and students about a specific article or feature may be posted to “reader comments” using the “post a comment” form found at the end of each article and feature.
General feedback to the editor of the UB Reporter may be submitted here or to ub-reporter@buffalo.edu.
Op-ed articles are not published by the UB Reporter.
Policy for Letters
The UB Reporter encourages and welcomes letters from members of the UB community—defined as faculty, staff and students—related to its stories and content, as well as other matters of concern and interest to the university community.
The UB Reporter only accepts letters electronically here or via email at ub-reporter@buffalo.edu.
Unless the author specifically indicates otherwise, the UB Reporter has permission to consider for publication any feedback it receives from the UB community. Whether material appears will be at the discretion of the editor. We recommend letters be succinct and stay below a 800 word maximum.
The UB Reporter encourages members of the UB community to submit letters and upholds their right to voice a wide range of opinions, which may or may not agree with official university policy. While championing the right of free speech, the editor also reviews letters with an eye toward assuring that each is in line with standards that would be expected by members of the university community. These include, but are not limited to:
- Letters should not contain lewd or obscene language
- Letters should not represent a personal attack by the writer on other individuals
- Letter should not be inflammatory in tone
- Letters should not focus on pending personnel matters
The editor of the UB Reporter in each case checks with the individual (or lead author) whose name is on the letter to make sure that he or she is, indeed, the author and a UB faculty or staff member or student. If the author's UB affiliation cannot be confirmed using the UB online directory, the letter will not be published. It is not, however, the responsibility of the editor to authenticate information presented in letters as fact.
The editor, on occasion, will choose to notify a writer that a letter will not be published if, in the opinion of the editor, the author of the letter has made substantially the same comments in an earlier letter(s) and the new letter does not add anything new to the public discussion of the matter at hand.