In a post shared this morning, Onward State founder and general manager Davis Shaver candidly explains how the Penn State student news outlet mistakenly reported Joe Paterno’s death prior to its actual occurrence. According to Shaver, the error seems to have been caused by a pair of deceitful happenings in rapid succession: a hoax email from a supposedly high-ranking PSU official and a dishonest Onward State reporter.
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Onward State Founder Explains ‘What Happened Last Night’ with Paterno Death Mistake
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, New Media, tagged College, College Football, Education, Joe Paterno, Penn State on January 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Onward State Editor at Penn State Resigns After Mistaken Scoop About Paterno’s Death
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, New Media, Teachable Moment, tagged College, Football, Journalism, Media, Paterno, Penn State on January 22, 2012 | 8 Comments »
Devon Edwards, the managing editor of Onward State at Penn State University, has suddenly resigned. The resignation comes hours after the online student news outlet mistakenly reported that former PSU head football coach Joe Paterno had died from lung cancer.
In the Spotlight: Taylor Doherty, Special Projects Editor, The Chronicle, Duke University
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged Duke Chronicle, Duke University, New Media, Student Journalism on December 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One of the most prolific writers featured on the website of The Chronicle, Duke University’s student newspaper, is a gray-haired alum from the 1960s. Ed Rickards, a former journalist, is currently a full-time “Duke Checker.” Under that pseudonym (very recently switched from “Fact Checker”), Rickards, 69, runs “an increasingly popular blog that focuses on the governance of Duke and the scandals that occur on the university’s campus.”
UW-Milwaukee Campus Newspaper Plans to Sue Former Student Government President for Halloween Theft
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, Teachable Moment, tagged Lawsuit, Student Newspaper Theft, Student Press Law Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on December 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
During an organized caper earlier this semester dubbed “Operation Boston Tea Party,” a small group of student government members at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee allegedly stole and trashed 800 copies of The UWM Post. – As the Post and the Student Press Law Center report, the group carried out the campus newspaper theft on Halloween– [...]
Elon University Investigates Student Who Told Pendulum Campus Newspaper She Drinks with Fake ID
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, Teachable Moment, tagged Elon University, Free Speech, honor code, Student Newspaper, underage drinking on December 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Elon University officials are investigating a student for honor code violations after she told the school’s campus newspaper The Pendulum that she drinks underage at a local bar thanks to a fake ID.
Censorship, Curse Words, and a Dodgeball Championship: Student Press Trouble at Pacific Lutheran University
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, tagged Censorship, Pacific Lutheran University, Student Newspaper, Student Press, The Mooring Mast on December 5, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Late last week, administrators at Washington’s Pacific Lutheran University briefly shut down the website of The Mooring Mast student newspaper due to an intramural dodgeball story containing some curse words.
Penn State’s Daily Collegian Sex Column ‘Mounting Nittany’ Temporarily Pulled
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper on November 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The buzzworthy sex column launched earlier this semester in The Daily Collegian at Penn State University has been placed on temporary hiatus in light of the sex abuse scandal that continues to overwhelm campus. – As I wrote previously on CMM, the early October premiere of “Mounting Nittany,” the first sex column published within the [...]
My Advice for Poynter: 10 Steps to Succeed with a Post-Romenesko Media Blog
Posted in Journalism, Journalism Ethics, New Media on November 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
As I write in my new PBS MediaShift post, the Romenesko-Poynter split remains the talk of the journalism cosmos. I am a longtime Romenesko reader now strongly considering switching full-time to Mediagazer. Simply in case it might be of interest to a Poynter faculty crew I sincerely admire, here are the steps I suggest taking [...]
A Strange, Sad Day in Journalism: Romenesko’s Resignation
Posted in Journalism, Journalism Ethics, New Media on November 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Aggregation is an under-appreciated art. Sure, with a quick tutorial, almost anyone can perform some version of it. But I have only stumbled across a few individuals and media outlets who have done it really well for any length of time on the web. – Jim Romenesko heavily influenced the practice of online aggregation. By [...]
President Obama Op-Ed Published in Student Newspapers
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper on November 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A small number of campus newspapers across the country are running a new op-ed penned by President Barack Obama focused on his proposed changes to student loan plans. The Harvard Crimson and The Daily Texan are among the student papers that have published the editorial this week. – In the piece, prior to summarizing his [...]
Student Column on Chaz Bono, Transgender People Causes Controversy at Oklahoma State
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, Teachable Moment on October 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A recent column in The Daily O’Collegian chastising Chaz Bono and other transgender people for showing “a complete lack of acceptance for their own genetics” has provoked a mini-uproar at Oklahoma State University. More impassioned critics have labeled the piece as pure hate speech and the vitriol spouted at the writer has apparently led her [...]
As Student Newspaper Archives Grow Online, Some Alums Worry About Their Google Prints
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged Campus Journalism, Daily Californian, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, UC-Berkeley, USA Today on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The evermore expansive set of student press archives being placed online continues to concern those who wish their undergrad misdeeds or heated words would stay in the past, not in their Google prints. – As a new USA Today College piece by Ohio University journalism student Stephanie Stark confirms, “[C]ollege newspapers are uploading old print [...]
New Hampshire Student Newspaper Editorials Stir Debate About Professor Who Exposed Himself in Public
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper on September 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A pair of spirited editorials in the University of New Hampshire student newspaper have drummed up a debate about the impending return of a professor who was arrested in 2009 for exposing himself in public. – As The New Hampshire notes near the start of the first editorial, the tenured German professor apparently ”showed his penis to [...]
Virginia’s Cavalier Daily Charged with Breaching Confidentiality in Plagiarism Case
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper on September 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
An editorial in The Cavalier Daily apologizing for repeated plagiarism by a staff writer has angered University of Virginia’s judiciary committee. The committee contends that the editorial breaches the confidentiality required during its investigation of the student plagiarist (for violating the school’s honor code). – As the paper shared in an unsigned editorial earlier this month, [...]
Virginia Student Newspapers’ Alcohol Advertising Fight Now in Year 5
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper on September 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »
In Virginia, the alcohol ads case is currently being considered by the state’s supreme court. Now in year five, The Cavalier Daily at the University of Virginia and The Collegiate Times at Virginia Tech continue to battle a Va. law that prohibits college newspapers from running almost any type of alcohol advertisement. – The latest [...]
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