Archive for May, 2010

Utah Chronicle Staffers in Trouble for Vulgar Goodbye Issue

Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , on May 7, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Administrators at the University of Utah have threatened to hold the academic records, transcripts, and degrees of nine soon-to-graduate senior staffers at The Daily Utah Chronicle.  The reason: A series of editorials run in the newspaper’s goodbye issue that had a bit of less-than-subtle vulgarity squeezed into their otherwise innocuous words. – As the SPLC reports, [...]

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The Founding of Iraq’s Independent Student Press, Part Six (The Conclusion)

Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on May 6, 2010 | 11 Comments »

“One Team, One Newspaper“ – The Founding of Iraq’s Independent Student Press – Part Six: “They Had Never Seen Something Like This” – On the first day the Voice appeared on campus at AUI-S, 15 students stopped by Jackie Spinner’s office expressing an interest in joining the staff.  “The students, and I’m talking about readers [...]

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The Founding of Iraq’s Independent Student Press, Part Five

Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , on May 5, 2010 | 10 Comments »

“One Team, One Newspaper” – The Founding of Iraq’s Independent Student Press – Part Five: “Thank God We Clashed It Together” – In late January, during his birthday weekend, design editor Yad Faiq sat down and carefully laid out the editorial page for the Voice’s first issue.  And then he redesigned it.  He later redesigned [...]

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The Founding of Iraq’s Independent Student Press, Part 4

Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , on May 3, 2010 | 12 Comments »

“One Team, One Newspaper” – The Founding of Iraq’s Independent Student Press – Part Four: “Editorial? What Do You Mean Editorial?” – When Namo Kaftan was nine years old, his father, a biomedical engineer, brought a laptop from work to the family’s home in Sulaimani.  For Kaftan, now 21, it was love at first start-up.  [...]

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Student Journalist Detained By Police for Cow Pictures

Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, Teachable Moment, tagged , , , on May 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »

[Ed. Note: The six-part Iraq Voice series will resume on Monday.] – A pair of apparently “agitated, angry, nervous, and certainly dangerous” cows recently dashed to freedom on Ohio State University’s campus, prompting a police chase and tranquilizer shots. – Alex Kotran, a photographer for The Lantern, OSU’s top-notch student newspaper, quickly raced to the [...]

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