When your on-campus audience is more likely to look at the phone between classes than pick up a newspaper, what’s a student publication to do?

For a steadily increasing number of student-led papers, the answer has been doing away with print.

The Cornell Daily Sun, one of the country’s leading student newspapers, announced on Monday that it would decrease its print production to three days a week from five, joining a growing list of college and professional newspapers forced to adapt to financial challenges and the changing habits of readers.

In an email to alumni, Sun editors acknowledged that rocky finances contributed to the decision. The newspaper had operated at a loss for seven years and was dipping into its “rainy day” fund, the editors said.

But on the newspaper’s website, editors described the cutback as a chance to focus more on digital journalism.