 Big donors broke out big bucks to save Boston University's independent student run paper, the Daily Free Press. The free is fully funded to print another semester, which is insane because we started this campaign two days ago. After hearing the news that the 44-year-old publication faced a dire need of $70,000 to cover its debt, Bill O'Reilly, a former fruit alum, and automobile dealership executive Ernie Bach stepped up to the plate. Bill's secretary emails us and says, Bill wants to speak with you, please call this number. And if $10,000 wasn't surprising enough? Then Ernie Bach Jr. surprisingly donated $50,000 to help fund the free for another semester to print. That completely threw me, was not expecting that. He's not someone known in the journalism world by any means. He's a, you know, for, you know, car dealership and, you know, locally here in Massachusetts, but who knew that he had a love of journalism too. A love that has allowed the college paper to exceed its expectations and print on. It just shows that this field isn't dead. There's still plenty of people who care about it and want to get into it. So we're happy. Reporting for the BU News Service, I'm Taylor Walker.