The sudden termination of East Carolina University student media director Paul Isom has been met with seemingly universal disapproval from the journalism community and advocates involved in First Amendment organizations. As I have previously posted, Isom’s unexplained firing last week has prompted speculation that it was related to the The East Carolinian‘s infamous ‘streaker’ photo published in November on its front page.
Posts Tagged ‘Censorship’
East Carolina Journalism Faculty, FIRE, SPLC Rally Around Ousted Student Media Director
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged Censorship, College, Journalism, Law, Media on January 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »
East Carolina Student Media Director Fired 2 Months After ‘Streaker’ Photo Published
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged Censorship, College Football, Media on January 5, 2012 | 1 Comment »
East Carolina University officials have fired Paul Isom, ECU’s student media director, without warning or much explanation. The sudden termination has prompted speculation among the college media community that it was related to the The East Carolinian’s infamous ‘streaker’ photo published in November on its front page.
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.
Hawaii Pacific Student Newspaper a Beacon for Censorship?
Posted in Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged Censorship, Journalism, Media, Student Newspaper on December 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Kalamalama means bright light, a beacon of light in the darkness, and the torch. It is also the name of the student newspaper at Hawaii Pacific University that is currently under review amid criticisms that it is not “as student run as it should be.” – As a Honolulu Advertiser report quoted an HPU student [...]
Media Adviser’s Removal at Morgan State Criticized as Censorship
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged Censorship, College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Media, Student Newspaper on August 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
According to a College Media Advisers investigation, the firing of the student media adviser at Morgan State University appears to be linked to editorials and stories published in the campus newspaper this past spring that criticized the Morgan State administration. – In an excellent investigation into the incident on behalf of CMA, Chris Evans, media [...]
Student Newspaper at Oregon State Claims Limited Campus Distribution is Censorship
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged Censorship, College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper on June 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Liberty, an independent student newspaper at Oregon State University, has plastered the word CENSORSHIP on the front page of its current issue. The reason behind the latest use of the big C within collegemediatopia is interesting: Liberty editors are not complaining that their content is being curtailed, but their right to distribute it. – [...]
Student Newspaper Adviser’s Tenure Denied: Response to Unfavorable Coverage?
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Journalism Education, tagged Censorship, College Media, Student Newspaper on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If the related reports have any merit, the Board of Trustees at Clark College in Washington state should be ashamed with itself. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education (and others), the board has engaged in the one of the worst kinds of indirect student press censorship: denying tenure to a professor who leads the [...]
Chicago St. Censorship: School Says No to Current Tempo
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged Censorship, Chicago State University, College Media, Free Press Fight, Journalism, Student Journalism, Student Newspaper on February 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This just in: The censorship saga at Chicago State University continues, in part thanks to student staffers who won’t back down and school administrators who need to grow up. —- There has been a battle brewing for some time now amid allegations of editorial and financial censorship against The Tempo student newspaper. The latest, according [...]
Admissions Office to Newspaper: You’ve Been Rejected
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged Censorship, Student Newspaper on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
September 9: The University Of Dayton has stopped displaying The Flyer News student newspaper in its admissions office out of fears that bad news like a recent front-page story about a campus shooting might turn off prospective students or their parents. In an impassioned editorial, titled “Stop the Presses,” The Flyer News EIC writes, “In our [...]
Dinosaurs like Quinnipiac’s President…
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged Censorship, Student Newspaper on September 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
September 7: The Quad News debuted recently at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, committed to “the free flow of information on campus.” It is an ideal to which Quinnipiac administrators failed to adhere. Specifically, the independent online student newspaper sprang to life in the wake of increasingly combative administrative stances against the previously unchallenged [...]
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