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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Utah Chronicle Staffers in Trouble for Vulgar Goodbye Issue
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged Campus Newspaper, College Journalism, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Journalism, Student Newspaper on May 7, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Campus Newspaper Loses $20,000 After Student Fees Cut
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, tagged Campus Newspaper, College Media, Funding, Journalism, Newspaper, Student Newspaper on April 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Globe student newspaper at Utah’s Salt Lake Community College is facing a sudden $20,000 budget shortfall and a potential shuttering after student fees allocated for the paper were cut by 50 percent. (Read about the other major student newspaper-student fees battle currently brewing at Kansas University.) – According to a Deseret News report, a [...]
Michigan Daily Sued by Former Editor Accused of Plagiarism
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, Teachable Moment, tagged Campus Newspaper, College Media, Journalism, Michigan Daily, Student Newspaper on March 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A former senior news editor at The Michigan Daily who resigned last year amid allegations of plagiarism is suing the paper and university for “being wrong in their assessment,” failing to afford her the opportunity to defend herself, and triggering related emotional distress. As the Daily itself reports, the ex-staffer, still a University of Michigan [...]
Student Editor: Campus Paper Newsroom “Like an Antarctic Research Base”
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged Campus Journalism, Campus Newspaper, College Journalism, Journalism, Student Journalism, Student Newspaper on March 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The outgoing operations manager of The Cavalier Daily at the University of Virginia has penned an excellent goodbye editorial worth a glimpse, if nothing else, for its opening comparison. In a piece headlined simply “Tundra-tested,” Wm. Hunter Tammaro writes: – The Cavalier Daily office is a lot like an Antarctic research base. No, really. Although [...]
Student Press Coverage of Dean Candidate’s Speech Restricted at Swarthmore
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, Teachable Moment, tagged Campus Newspaper, College Journalism, College Media, Free Press, Journalism, Open Access, Student Newspaper on March 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
How open should the higher education administration hiring process be? When is a position at a college or university influential enough to warrant public and student press scrutiny of candidates’ remarks while they are on campus? – The Daily Gazette at Swarthmore College recently faced a related student press roadblock. In late January, the newspaper’s [...]
Syracuse University Dining Halls Now Open to All Servings of the Student Press
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Magazine Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged Campus Newspaper, College Journalism, Free Press, Journalism, Student Magazine, Student Newspaper on February 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »
The dining halls at Syracuse University are at long last deliciously free of student press censorship. A report in the SU’s Daily Orange (via Paper Trails) confirms the reversal of a long-held policy by the school’s Food Services allowing distribution of only the Orange in student dining halls. Food Services staffers did not have a problem with competing pubs, [...]
Racial Slur Leads to Student Media Funding Freeze at UCSD
Posted in Broadcast Journalism, College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged Campus Journalism, Campus Newspaper, College Journalism, Ethics, Free Press, Humor Magazine, Journalism, Student Journalism on February 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »
A “racial state of emergency” has been declared and funding for all school-supported student media has been frozen at the University of California, San Diego in the immediate aftermath of a racist campus event coupled with a televised racist slur. – Late last week, the editor of the Koala, a controversial UCSD student humor newspaper [...]
Huffington Post College News Section Launches, In Debt
Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged Campus Newspaper, Journalism, New Media, Student Media, Student Newspaper on February 23, 2010 | 4 Comments »
On Monday morning, The Huffington Post’s College section launched amid great hype and an introduction by the blog’s namesake. – In the words of Arianna Huffington, the section “features blog posts from students, professors, and academics on all things collegiate- from the high-minded to the just-for-fun- as well as the great issues of the day. [...]
Student Journalist Spotlight: Josh Shannon, The Review, University of Delaware
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalist Spotlight, Student Newspaper, tagged Campus Newspaper, College Media, Delaware Review, Journalism, New Media, Student Journalist Spotlight, Student Newspaper on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In Josh Shannon’s words: “I wanted to be a journalist long before I ever knew I wanted to be a journalist.” He has long saved newspapers from historic moments in contemporary history (including presidential elections and the start of the Iraq War) and his own journalism history (including reporting clips), leaving one of his bedroom [...]
Daily Nexus Fights for Access, Uncovers Possible Misconduct
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged Campus Newspaper, College Journalism, College Media, Daily Nexus, Journalism, Student Journalism, Student Newspaper on February 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Daily Nexus at the University of California, Santa Barbara is mounting a significant call-to-arms for open meetings while simultaneously investigating high-profile student government misconduct. As Nexus editor in chief Mackenzie Weinger put it, “Overall, it’s been a highly interesting time to be a student journalist at UCSB.” – The basics: Late last month, the [...]
Updated: Duke, North Carolina Rivalry: On the Court, Online, in Print
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged Campus Newspaper, College Journalism, Journalism, New Media, Satire, Student Newspaper on February 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Update: Huge thanks to Sara Gregory at the Daily Tar Heel for providing the following clarification on this post: – “I don’t think ESPN should have linked to dailytarhole.com when talking about what the Chronicle does rivalry-wise. The Daily Tar Hole Web site is different from the Daily Tar Hole spoof the Duke Chronicle does [...]
Student Newspaper Cartoon Mixes Sex, Haiti, Controversy
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, Teachable Moment, tagged Campus Newspaper, College Media, Editorial Cartoon, Florida Alligator, Journalism, New Media, Notre Dame Observer, Student Newspaper on January 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It comes in threes. The Independent Florida Alligator at the University of Florida is apologizing for the recent publication of a sexually-themed cartoon caricaturing the world’s Haiti charity fervor. It is the third high-profile cartoon controversy within collegemediatopia in about a week. – For Notre Dame’s Observer, it was charges of blatant gay bashing. For [...]
UWIRE Round-Up of Student Newspaper Troubles
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged Campus Newspaper, College Media, Economy, Future of Journalism, Journalism, Print Journalism, Print News, Rocky Mountain News, Student Media, Student Newspaper on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
UWIRE provides a nice roundup of recent campus newspaper staff/print edition downsizing, providing briefs and links to full stories about cutbacks at a dozen student papers across the U.S. As the intro reports: “All over the country, university newspapers are scaling back to accommodate flagging funds, from slashing staff to going online.” —- Great list [...]
Student Newspaper’s Return to Print Hailed as Step Forward
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged Campus Newspaper, College Journalism, College Media, Future of Journalism, Laura Lemire, Online Journalism, Student Journalism, Student Newspaper, University of Alaska Southeast, Whalesong on January 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In late November, The Whalesong student newspaper at the University of Alaska Southeast renewed publication of its print edition after a two-year absence. ————— While the newspaper had continued to operate online-only, student editor Laura Lemire told Capital City Weekly that the print resurgence is a real step forward: “This is something I’ve wanted for [...]
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