Posts Tagged ‘College Football’

University of Oregon’s Emerald Builds Special Site for Fiesta Bowl Coverage (#Interactive #Innovative #GoDucks)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 3, 2013 | 1 Comment »

The Emerald at the University of Oregon is welcoming in 2013 with a fun, furious thunderclap of online innovation.

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In honor of this evening’s Fiesta Bowl battle between the Oregon Ducks and the Kansas State University Wildcats, the UO student student media group has taken over its own homepage.  The reconstructed web digs feature game-day tweets (all with a #GoDucks hashtag), Instagram photos (including those geo-tagged close to the stadium in Glendale, Ariz.), a reader chat board, and stories from a half-dozen Emerald staffers reporting on Fiesta football and other festivities in person.

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The tweets, pics, chat, and content are each presented in their own vertical streams, updated in real-time, making for a fun top-to-bottom wait-scroll-browse-repeat for even casual fans.

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Emerald publisher extraordinaire Ryan Frank: “With one screen, you score insight from beat reporters on Twitter, photos that reveal what the TV cameras aren’t catching at the game, and a place to debate big plays or missed calls.  So when the game kicks off, grab a seat, turn on the game and make us your GameDay home page. You won’t regret it.

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The special site’s foundation was developed by Emerald staffer Ivar Vong (hat tip to digital journalism wunderkind Davis Shaver).  In a tweet this afternoon, Vong promised to reveal his development techniques in an upcoming blog post.

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Red & Black Editor: Georgia Tech Paper’s ‘To Hell With Georgia’ Football Rivalry Issue ‘A Lose-Lose for Everyone’

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on November 25, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Yesterday afternoon, the University of Georgia football squad tore apart in-state rival Georgia Tech University to earn a shot at the SEC title and a berth in the BCS national championship game.  In a column published the day before the shellacking, Red & Black opinion editor Blake Seitz at UGA unleashed a similarly harsh editorial smackdown of sorts aimed at the Technique, Georgia’s Tech’s student newspaper.

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The focus of Seitz’s ire: To Hell With Georgia, a special satirical issue published annually by the Technique prior to the UGA-GT game.  Over the years, within the issue, the Technique staff has not-so-subtly poked fun at general UGA stereotypes including “alcohol, rednecks, farm animals, and lots of dawgs.”

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Among the headlines topping faux stories in the current issue focused on UGA: “Sesame Street Too Hard for UGA Students, Romney Right All Along”; “Red Solo Cups Deemed Reusable”; “Honey Boo Boo to Talk at Graduation”; “Tater Tot Addiction No. 3 Biggest Craze After Drinking, Incest”; and “Cars in Athens Pimped Out with Tape.”

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A separate editorial cartoon depicts a beer can, wine bottle, needle filled with meth, and a DVD containing pornography as “UGA Study Guides.”  Also in the issue, a two-page spread sporting nothing more than the huge, blood-red words “To Hell with Georgia!”  As a tiny strip of text underneath the words notes, “This space provided as a public service by the Technique.”

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Apparently, it’s all about tradition.  As an editorial on page two explains, “Some 101 years ago, the first edition of the Technique . . . was a four-page paper that focused primarily on the upcoming football contest with Georgia.  It predicted, arrogantly and incorrectly, that the Jackets would triumph over the Bulldogs.  From these ‘modest’ roots, the present day Technique came into being.  It is these roots that we as a staff honor when we produce ‘To Hell With Georgia.’ . . . While the jokes [in the current issue] may tend to be the same [as those in previous issues], lame or just plain crude, we stay dedicated to the fact of honoring our humble beginnings.”

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Nearby, at UGA, Seitz isn’t buying it.  The Red & Black opinion editor views the issue’s stories as the antics of an editorially deficient enterprise and a student body fueled by “undying hatred.”  In his response column, he compares the Technique– and by extension all of Georgia Tech– to “that annoying younger brother you never wanted, who you tried to asphyxiate with a pillow that one time before your mother caught you.”

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His take on “To Hell With Georgia” specifically, provided prior to the UGA-GT game: “When, on Saturday, Coach Richt and the boys lay an almighty stomping on the Jackets, and Tech fans are left to yell, ‘Why, why do we continue to field a team in this sport?’ in the smoldering wreckage of their defeat, it will fuel the vicious circle of Georgia Tech’s existence: hate will beget hate, which will beget more silly editions of the Technique for us all to read.  So I guess that’s a lose-lose for everyone.”

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Georgia’s Red & Black Runs Full-Page ‘Trash-Talk Ad’ Predicting Florida Football Win

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Be Careful Student Sports Reporters, Your School May Have an In-Game Tweet Limit

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on November 13, 2012 | 4 Comments »

Journalists are currently abuzz about the University of Washington men’s basketball team– not for its play but for how it’s allowed to be covered.

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Athletics officials at the school recently told a local sports reporter to stop live-tweeting so much during an early season game.  The weird warning revealed a new official rule instituted for all live coverage of UW games by outside press– 20 tweets tops at basketball games and no more than 45 tweets during football games.

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Hmm.  The restriction, known formally as a “live coverage policy,” is apparently similar to those being enacted or considered by other sports programs at colleges and universities nationwide.  On spec, it seems to be an attempt to have more netizens check out the school’s own live online coverage.

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It is also undoubtedly a larger push to control as much of the in-the-moment media coverage of its teams as possible, in exchange for reporter access to the fun and games.  As former sports reporter Brian Moritz confirms, “Yes, every reporter who gets a press credential signs a release that includes the rules. No, none of them ever read it. Seriously, when’s the last time you read the terms and conditions when you update iTunes?”

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It is the latest sports reporting body blow at the college level brought to light this semester, including increasing limits on reporting on team practices and student-athlete injuries.  Heck, University of Kansas head football coach Charlie Weis does not believe the KU student newspaper should provide any negative coverage of his dismal gridiron squad at all.

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So, big question of the day: Does your school have a social media policy for live sports coverage?  And bigger question: What other limits, if any, do sports reporters at your news outlet face, especially when covering your school’s A-list players and teams?

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Georgia’s Red & Black Runs Full-Page ‘Trash-Talk Ad’ Predicting Florida Football Win

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on October 27, 2012 | 3 Comments »

The Red & Black at the University of Georgia ran a full-page “trash-talk advertisement” in Thursday’s paper– against its own football team.  The ad, paid for by supporters of the University of Florida football program, features a strong-armed Gator with gritted teeth taking down a hapless UGA Bulldogs football player.

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The image aligns with the thrust of the ad, which lays out a number of reasons “Why Our Gators Will Bury the Dawgs Little Bone . . . Again.”  The number-two ranked Gators are taking on the 10th-ranked Bulldogs this afternoon in a marquee conference match-up.

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Red & Black editors are declaring the ad’s publication simply a business decision, telling one reader on Twitter, “We have to sell some ads to bring students free news.“  In the tweet below, they warn all readers about its appearance.

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A tongue-in-cheek response from a CBS Sports blogger: “It’s impossible not to be sympathetic to a newspaper at any level looking for whatever revenue stream it can, but the line has to be drawn somewhere, doesn’t it? If funds are that scarce, wouldn’t a bake sale be preferable to publishing an ad like this? A dance-a-thon? Car wash? Talent show? Krispy Kreme dougnut sale? Overpriced chocolate bars?”

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A more serious response tweet from a UGA fan:

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Anti-Romney College Football Ad in Ohio State Lantern Grabs Eyeballs, Press Attention

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Kansan Football Reporter Warned About Asking Questions at Press Conference with Head Coach

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on October 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »

University Daily Kansan sports writer Blake Schuster says athletics officials at the University of Kansas warned him in a private meeting about asking questions at the most recent press conference with head football coach Charlie Weis.  The reason?  Their concerns about “lingering ill-will among members of the football program.”

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As I previously posted, Weis ranted on Twitter last Friday about what he felt was unfairly harsh coverage in the Kansan about the football team’s many woes so far this season.  He particularly took issue with preview coverage of the squad’s game this past weekend against in-state rival Kansas State University.  The full-page cover graphic kicking off the coverage displayed a tiny, fearful Jayhawk hugging a goalpost, while a large, muscular KSU Wildcat races fearlessly toward the end zone.  The accompanying story’s headline, “Road Kill Ahead.”

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According to the Kansan, KU football communications director Katy Lonergan “warned Schuster about possible negative reactions to . . . [the] cover art and story.  She told him these negative attitudes could be directed toward him. . . . [Schuster] said Lonergan told him it would be in his best interest not to ask questions.”

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Lonergan countered, “I just simply advised him that if he did ask questions, he should be prepared for any kind of tone in his answer.”  As the reliably snarky sports blog Deadspin explained, “It wasn’t a threat, see. Just a gentle suggestion.”

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On a larger scale, in a piece earlier this week, Kansan student columnist Mike Vernon speaks for many with a terrifically impassioned editorial smackdown of this KU-triggered mess– one that started as an overly sensitive, tone-deaf Twitter temper-tantrum but now hovers precariously close to full-blown censorship.

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As Vernon writes, “The path that Kansas Athletics has taken to handle this situation is not right.  Kansas is a public university, and it has a damn good journalism school that is here teaching its students to be objective members of the Fourth Estate of the United States of America, to hold its leaders accountable, and to be a free and independent press. It’s a democracy thing, and it’s too bad a public American university would try to persuade student reporters into compromising those values.”

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Bottom line, writes Vernon, “[T]he Kansan isn’t here to rally up student support for the football team. . . . Students at this university deserve better than a pom-pom squad of a newspaper.  They deserve to get the truth.”

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Weis, by the way, has not tweeted since Roadkill-gate began.

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Kansas Football Coach Tweets Angrily About Daily Kansan Coverage of Team

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Anti-Romney College Football Ad in Ohio State Lantern Grabs Eyeballs, Press Attention

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 9, 2012 | 2 Comments »

A full-page advertisement in the recent Homecoming issue of The Lantern at Ohio State University has stirred attention for serving up a simple reminder to OSU diehards and alums: Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is a fan of the University of Michigan Wolverines, a heated OSU football rival.

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Student press, meet the political silly season.  As Deadspin asked, “Do Buckeyes fans hate Michigan enough to change who they vote for purely based on the candidate’s support for University of Michigan athletics?”  Don’t doubt it.  According to one football blogger, “Stranger things have happened.”

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The ad ran last Friday, adjacent to the start of the Lantern sports section.  It features a black-and-white portrait shot of Romney looking especially earnest, overlaid with a quote expressing his Michigan love– pulled from remarks he made last year.  It’s an unsurprising loyalty of course, given he is a native of the state.

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The ad’s creators: members of the Ohio Democratic Party.  Given its appearance a month before Election Day at a major university in a battleground state, it has garnered outsized news coverage.  The Atlantic Wire sees it as a sign of tightening poll numbers, noting, “Democrats are clearly feeling the heat if this is the level they’ll sink to swing voters. It would have said terrible things about [Romney's] character if he did schtup for the Buckeyes just to get votes. Is nothing in this world sacred?”

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The Detroit Free Press seems especially unimpressed with the football tie-in tactic, beginning a related write-up with an Ohio potshot: “Nice to know we can count on our neighbors to the south to come up with a completely pointless tie-in between the presidential race and the University of Michigan-Ohio State football rivalry. . . . But really, Obama and Romney are a couple of guys who spent their undergraduate and graduate years in the Ivy League.  What the heck do they know about football?“

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Kansas Football Coach Tweets Angrily About Daily Kansan Coverage of Team

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 7, 2012 | 4 Comments »

Update: Kansan Football Reporter Warned About Asking Questions at Press Conference with Head Coach

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Charlie Weis was wicked mad late last week.  The head coach of the University of Kansas football team lashed out at The University Daily Kansan in a 140-character burst of righteous anger.  The tweet spurred national attention and a public scolding from some members of the press.

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Since the start of the season, the Kansan, KU’s student newspaper, has aggressively– and accurately– covered the many woes of the one-win Jayhawks football squad.  In an issue published Friday, editors provided preview coverage of a conference road game between KU and its in-state rival, the Kansas State University Wildcats.

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The full-page cover graphic accompanying the main story in the issue displays a tiny, fearful Jayhawk hugging a goalpost, while a large, muscular Wildcat races fearlessly toward the end zone.  The story’s headline, “Road Kill Ahead.”

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Weis apparently did not care for the graphic, headline or related coverage.  In a tweet posted early Friday morning to his personal Twitter account @CoachWeisKansas, he shared, “Team slammed by our own school newspaper.  Amazing!  No problem with opponents paper or local media.  You deserve what you get!  But, not home!”

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The micro-response earned hundreds of retweets.  It also revealed how little Weis knows about student journalism.

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Oh, Charlie.  What you must understand: Student newspapers are not campus cheerleaders.  They are, at heart, objective observers.  By that standard, Weis and the football team have deserved all the editorial shellacking they have received.

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The team is having a terrible season.  The Kansan has been correct in its coverage of that relative terribleness.  Staffers were also correct in their prediction of a tough outing against the Wildcats.  On Saturday, KSU defeated KU 56-16.

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As CBS Sports blogger Jerry Hinnen explains, “[I]t’s not the Kansan‘s role to be kind– it’s to put out the most accurate, highest-quality paper it can, and there’s no denying that picture is an entirely accurate summation of the two programs’ current standing. . . . If Weis really wants better treatment from the student newspaper, we have a simple suggestion: Don’t lose to Rice and Northern Illinois.”

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USA TODAY sports writer Paul Myerberg agrees, noting, “The University Daily Kansan has won two consecutive College Newspaper of the Year awards (circulation over 30,000 division) from the College Newspaper Business & Advertising Managers.  Keep up the good work– the newspaper, that is.  Weis needs to win more games.”

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For his part, Weis quickly posted a less simmering– but still self-righteous– follow-up tweet.  It offers a partial explanation for his anger.  As he wrote, “I personally could care less.  You are what [you] are.  On the other hand, if I don’t support the players good or bad, who will??”

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Stony Brook Student Magazine’s Funny Football Tweets Lead to Censorship Threat

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Officials Limit Student Press Reporting on College Football Practices, Player Injuries

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on October 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »

School and team officials are increasingly ordering the student and professional press to refrain from reporting on college football player injuries via observations made or information obtained during team practices.

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As a respected adviser at an A-list student newspaper shared yesterday on a popular college media list-serv, “My sports editor just told me that our football beat reporter was approached at practice by the team’s sports info guy and ‘informed’ that the [paper] was not to report on players’ injuries anymore.  As in, we see a guy walking around in a cast, we can’t report that. If we do, the football coach will freeze the paper out of mid-week availability.  Which is completely ludicrous, of course.”

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Ludicrous, but not unprecedented.  Daily Trojan editors at the University of Southern California noted in an editorial last week, “USC now prohibits the reporting of injuries observed during in-season practices– much like conference foes, such as Oregon, UCLA, and Washington, which have recently enacted similar policies.  The trend is one in which journalists are discouraged and even prevented, by the threat of banned access, from reporting on certain subjects.”

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The editors, understandably, are not fans of the increased restrictions.  The editorial’s close: “As a publication looking to report the objective truth, the Daily Trojan does not agree with the continued efforts of the USC athletic department and institutions around the nation to keep publicly relevant information behind closed doors.  Organizations should aim to level the playing field with transparency rather than keeping facts in the dark.”

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This factual darkening is, alas, becoming standard practice on many campuses.  A separate college media adviser notes, “This is a national trend right now.  We have dealt with it this year, as have many, many professional reporters. . . . This is trickle down, as the NFL has been asinine about this stuff for years despite league mandates on injury reports.  It’s typical coaches being paranoid and controlling. . . . Our policy right now is going along to get along, which leaves a bad taste in my mouth, but also gives us the option of picking our battles.”

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Bottom line: Can you truly keep an injured player from the press?  A college media adviser at a Division 1 school rightly explains, “The difference between a student journalist and a professional journalist, in this case, is that the student journalist may have class with an injured player or may see that player on crutches in the cafeteria.  The coach can hide a player from the professional media, but not always from the eyes of student sports writers.”

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Stony Brook Student Magazine’s Funny Football Tweets Lead to Censorship Threat

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Late last month, athletics officials at Stony Brook University threatened the press credentials of a student magazine in response to a staffer’s comedic live-tweeting of a football game.  It is one of the stranger student press censorship cases I have come across.

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The needed backdrop: Along with a terrific journalism school, there are three major student media outlets at SBU.  The Statesman is the fantastic longtime student newspaper.  The Stony Brook Independent is a respected independent online news source.  And The Stony Brook Press is an established biweekly alternative known for its mix of serious and satiric content.

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The 30-second gist: The Press recently covered SBU football’s one-point Homecoming win over Colgate University.  A pair of photographers captured shots from the sidelines.  A reporter worked on a serious recap from the press box.  And a separate staffer sat in the stands, live-tweeting the action on the field in humorous fashion.  As the Press explained, “His objective was to live-tweet the game, while making references to any sport but football. . . . If anything, we were poking fun at our lack of knowledge when it comes to sports.”  SBU officials were apparently not amused, threatening to revoke the magazine’s press credentials for the rest of the year unless it started tweeting correctly.

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The tweets at the center of the odd uproar are quite funny, and seemingly harmless.  Here is a sampling featured in a Storify created by the Student Press Law Center, along with a rebuke tweet from SBU Athletics:

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According to Press managing editor Tom Johnson, as paraphrased by the SPLC, following the warning tweet shown above, “the athletics department sent the magazine a direct message: ‘I strongly suggest you come up to the press box to discuss your inability to tweet the correct way.’  Later in the game, an athletic official approached one of the magazine’s photographers, telling her that if the tweeting didn’t stop they would take away the paper’s credentials.”

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In an editorial about the incident– headlined “Don’t Censor Me, Bro!”– the Press clarified that the tweeting staffer had not attended the game using an SBU-issued press pass.  As the editors noted:

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“In many ways, the Athletics Department was overstepping their boundaries by doing this. First of all, under the First Amendment, we have the right to publish anything we want, even tweets. . . . If the person live-tweeting had been in the press box, preventing another reporter from factually covering the game, their request to stop would have been justified. If any directly offensive references had been made in the tweets, their distress would have been understood. But the fact is, the person live-tweeting the game was simply a student sitting in the stands, which is in no way violating any rules. . . . Did the Athletics Department have a right to threaten revocation of our press credentials? Simply put, yes. Technically, if we don’t cover a sporting event in a manner that the Athletics Department deems appropriate, it has the right to take back the press credentials they issued to us.  But that doesn’t make it right.”

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My Take: I agree with the editorial.  Threatening the student press in any way for coverage you simply don’t like or don’t understand is never right.  It’s also almost always an overreaction.  Seriously, SBU Athletics, just enjoy the win.  Respect the press, and the Press.  And get a sense of humor.  I mean, c’mon, if nothing else, that sand trap/power play tweet has to make you giggle, at least a little, right? :)

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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 , , , , on January 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »

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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As he writes, “[A]t around 8:00 p.m., one of our writers posted that he had received word from a source that Joe Paterno had died. The source had been forwarded an email ostensibly sent from a high-ranking athletics official (later found to be a hoax) to Penn State athletes with information of Paterno’s passing. A second writer– whom we later found out had not been honest in his information– confirmed to us that the email had been sent to football players. With two independent confirmations of an email announcing his death, managing editor Devon Edwards was confident in the story and hit send on the tweet we had written, informing the world that Joe Paterno had died.”

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Penn State’s Daily Collegian: ‘Messages to Joe Paterno’

Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, Story Ideas, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , on January 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »

In a video report completed last night and shared moments ago, Daily Collegian staffer Kelley King asks students gathered at the statue of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno a single question: “If you could say one thing to Joe Paterno right now, what would it be?”  The responses are especially touching amid word this morning that Paterno died overnight in the hospital.

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East Carolina Student Media Director Fired 2 Months After ‘Streaker’ Photo Published

Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged , , 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.

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Student Press Law Center Executive Director Frank LoMonte: “I think it’s absolutely incumbent on the college to come forward with some lawful explanation– if they can.  They owe it to the students to demonstrate that this is not retaliation for a lawful editorial content decision. If they can’t do that, then they’re not just in violation of the law but they’re acting way outside of the mainstream of what we expect from a public university.”

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College Media Association (CMA) vice president Rachele Kanigel: “I’m very disturbed at the number of advisers who have lost their jobs in the last couple of years over this kind of thing. In California we now have a law protecting advisers from this sort of retaliation.  I’d like to see CMA work with SPLC and state newspaper publishers associations to get similar legislation passed in all 50 states.”

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Official Stops Student Journalists from Blogging Due to NCAA Rules

Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This video explains much more comprehensively than I ever could the many, many, many, many reasons the NCAA rule severely limiting live blogging of college sports is crudely written, overreaching, and just plain dumb.

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As Just Journalism reported, a Wake Forest official warned Indiana Daily Student staffers live-blogging an IU-Wake Forest basketball game last week that they were not to go over the NCAA’s allowance of four blog updates per half. What irks me most about this Draconian measure is that the IDS gang was not even trying to provide real-time game-tracker type coverage.  They were simply chatting with fans and offering “occasional score updates.”

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NCAA New Year’s Resolutions: 1) Amend this ludicrous rule.  2) Add a college football playoff to the BCS.

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Watch the video and tell me what you think.

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Football, an Arrest, and College Media Excellence

Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Wide receiver and return specialist Bryant Eteuati played in a game for Weber State University’s football team last Saturday.  His return to the field marked the end of a journalistic drama that started about a month before, immediately after his arrest on outstanding warrants for aggravated assault that he’d accrued for hitting people with his car.

 

The Signpost student newspaper at Weber State broke the story, even informing the football team’s coaches when a staffer called them for a comment on Eteuati’s arrest.  Student journalism at its finest!  And people were pissed, seemingly because they believed if the paper had not run the story Eteuati would not have been suspended.  

 

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Part a local TV news report at the time:

 

The university’s student paper is taking heat from some fans for breaking the story. . . . School policy says athletes facing charges like that don’t play.  But some fans didn’t see it like that, and when Eteuati was suspended right before a big game, they blamed The Signpost.  The comments, many aimed at [editor in chief Jessica] Schreifiels, poured in.  Things like: ‘She makes me irate, and she needs to think about more than just herself when she writes. This movement that the football team is in is way bigger then her and her career.’

 

This past month, the paper admirably stuck to its editorial guns, covering every aspect of the student-athlete’s case (from its initial postponement to Eteuati’s not-guilty plea to the plea bargain that concluded it) and its implications for the football team. 

 

In a staff editorial run soon after the angry fan lashing had commenced, editors wrote:

 

The Signpost did not get Bryant Eteuati suspended. Bryant Eteuati got Bryant Eteuati suspended. . . . As sad as this truly is, Eteuati did this to himself. The Signpost in no way, shape or form tried to smear him or the football team because of some personal vendetta. We reported the facts. It would have been unethical of us if we didn’t. . . . This was textbook journalism.

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