College Media Matters

“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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“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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“One Team, One Newspaper” – The Founding of Iraq’s Independent Student Press – Part Three: “What! Another Newspaper?” – Dana Jaff knew it would happen.  He had seen it happen before.  He even unwittingly predicted it would happen on his own newspaper’s front page: The beginning Times would also be the end of Times. – [...]

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“One Team, One Newspaper” – The Founding of Iraq’s Independent Student Press – Part Two: “I Fell in Love with Iraq” – The Voice began, indirectly, with a stumble and a scandal.  Washington Post veteran staff writer Jackie Spinner arrived in Iraq in May 2004 primarily to cover the criminal proceedings tied to the infamous Abu [...]

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