Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’

Barack Obama, College Journalist

Posted in Journalism, Magazine Journalism, tagged , , , , , on January 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »

More than 25 years before acceding to the most powerful position in all the land, Barack Obama was a student journalist with an anti-war bent.  In “Breaking The War Mentality,” a March 1983 piece for The Sundial, a weekly magazine at Columbia University, Obama embeds his own obvious anti-war outlook into a profile of a [...]

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Obama endorsement stirs “mini-uproar” at Abilene Christian

Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on November 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »

A presidential endorsement of Barack Obama run in The Optimist student newspaper at Abilene Christian University has lit a California-sized wildfire among ACU alums and others connected with the school that continues to burn post-election.     Most are angry at the paper’s support for a candidate whose abortion and gay marriage stances are worrying to [...]

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Racist Obama Leaflets Slipped Into Lehigh’s Brown & White

Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

“Your president is black. How does that make you feel?”   A leaflet with those words were slipped inside hundreds of copies of The Brown and White student newspaper at Pennsylvania’s Lehigh University last week, without editors’ knowledge or permission. The paper’s EIC noted: “Probably someone came around and stuffed them in into each copy. [...]

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Columbia J-Students Get Exclusive Access to Obama Rally

Posted in Broadcast Journalism, College Media, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , , , on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Check out the behind-the-scenes videos that Columbia College Chicago j-students captured during Obama’s already-historic Grant Park Election Night rally.  Undergrads working with Columbia’s student newspaper and student radio station were the only college student media granted official access to the day-and-night event, which the student paper called “Obamapalooza”     Only two videos are featured on the site.  [...]

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Obama Cartoon in Daily Wildcat Called “Racist, Offensive”

Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Charges of racism have been levied against The Daily Wildcat at the University of Arizona after the paper ran a political cartoon in its Wednesday issue that included the N-word.  The syndicated cartoon, headlined in part “Stories from the Campaign Trail,” recounted an actual recent event in which a Pennsylvania couple told a canvasser they [...]

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Obama-mania Hits College Press!

Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on November 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »

One consequence of America’s historic election: The public has been gobbling up newspapers like collectors’ items.  CNN reported that post-election print newspaper editions nationwide sold out uber-fast, prompting some papers to even restart their presses(!).   College print newspapers also witnessed emptier-than-usual newsstands and stacks.  For example, the EIC of The Maneater at the University of [...]

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“Little Campus, Big Election”

Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , , , on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Election Day.  How much of an impact has the college press actually had on (potential) student voters?   The Michigan Review collected thoughts from a few student journalists and individuals who love them.  Three highlights:   Ben French, general manager of U-Wire: “College newspapers serve as a major news source for students . . . [...]

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Daily Bruin First College Paper to Endorse Obama

Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »

According to UWire, The Daily Bruin at UCLA is the first U.S. college newspaper to support Barack Obama’s presidential bid in the general election, a selection that editors write was obvious:   [R]eally, was there any other rational choice? . . . The last thing we need is a maverick like Gov. Palin swapping hockey-mom tales [...]

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