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, [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
Student Newspaper Wins Open Records Victory, a Year After Request
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged College Journalism, College Media, College Newspaper, Journalism, Student Newspaper on February 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A settlement has been reached: At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, what was once redacted will now be set free. – A yearlong legal fight between the UWM Post and the school over the release of a specific set of university records has ended with a big student press victory, the SPLC and others have confirmed. [...]
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 [...]
Virginia Tech May Cut Collegiate Times Funding Due to Paper’s Online Comments Policy (?!)
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged College Journalism, College Media, Collegiate Times, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, Virginia Tech on February 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Administrators at Virginia Tech are threatening to cut the funding of The Collegiate Times student newspaper and other campus media due to their distaste for the paper’s allowance of anonymous comments following stories posted online. – As the Roanoke Times reports, the university’s Commission on Student Affairs is declaring that the paper’s failure to oversee and [...]
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 [...]
HackCollege Interviews Onward State Editors at Penn State (Nickelback Not Amused)
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, New Media, tagged College Journalism, HackCollege, Journalism, New Media, Online Journalism, Onward State, Student Journalism on February 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I recently came across an interesting audio interview featuring Davis Shaver and Evan Kalikow, two of the undergrad gurus behind Penn State University’s “unruly news blog” Onward State. For those who might forget, the pair and their PSU new(s) media machine earned a prominent shout-out in a mid-January Chronicle of Higher Ed. piece. The lead: [...]
Optimist Student Newspaper First to be iPad-Friendly: Huge Step or So What?
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged College Journalism, College Media, College Newspaper, iPad, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper on February 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The Optimist student newspaper at Abilene Christian University is promoting itself as the first campus publication worldwide that will be iPad-friendly. – As the U.S. News & World Report‘s fantastic Paper Trail blog noted in the post that broke this story: “The gadget will be available in 60 days, and a team of faculty and [...]
What Pay Walls, Meter Schemes Mean for College Media
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged College Journalism, College Media, College News Network, Future of Media, Journalism, New Media, New York Times, Student Journalism, Student Newspaper, UWire on January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Amid the gravity-defying hype centered on all-things-iPad (it really won’t have a USB port??), a more important journalistic drumbeat continues to sound. As Rupert Murdoch, Steven Brill, and most recently the New York Times have confirmed: Pay walls or metered pricing systems for online news content will soon be coming to a high-profile Web site [...]
Notre Dame Observer Faces Outrage Over ‘Anti-Gay’ Comic
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, Teachable Moment, tagged College Journalism, College Media, College Newspaper, Comic, Controversy, Journalism, Notre Dame, Student Journalism, Student Newspaper on January 19, 2010 | 4 Comments »
The editorial board of The Notre Dame Observer has profusely apologized and the paper’s assistant managing editor has stepped down after the recent publication of a “cruel and hateful” comic strip. A staff editorial calls the incident a “low point in [the paper's] almost 50-year history.” – – – According to an Irish Central report [...]
Best College Media Quotes, Fall 2009
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Future of Journalism, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged Clark College, College Journalism, College Media, Free Press Fights, Hilltop, Howard University, New Media, Student Media, Student Press Law Center on January 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is the sixth installment of a multi-post glimpse back at the highlights and lowlights of fall 2009 in collegemediatopia. – Best College Media Quotes “Besides being illegal, heavy-handed control of college student publications is widely recognized both as unethical and as an unsound educational practice that deprives students of valuable learning opportunities. . . [...]
Huffington Post to Launch College News Section in February
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged College Journalism, College Media, Huffington Post, New Media, Student Journalism, UWire on January 10, 2010 | 6 Comments »
BIG NEWS within collegemediatopia: The Huffington Post will launch a college news section in the middle of next month, according to several trusted sources. The section’s foundation will be news pulled with permission from established U.S. student media outlets, most prominently college newspapers. – The idea is basically UWIRE without the content sharing: It’s a high-profile, one-stop [...]
College Media Highlights, Lowlights from Fall 2009
Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged Annie Le, Chicago, College Journalism, College Media, G-20, Huffington Post, Journalism, New Media, Pitt News, Poynter, Student Journalism, Student Life, Washington University in St. Louis, Yale Daily News on January 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Fall semester 2009 played host to great feats of student journalism excellence. It also featured several callous fights and a spate of blunders that made j-students both grimace and blush. It was a typical term. – As students begin to sober up and look toward spring 2010, here is a quick glimpse back at the [...]
Arizona Daily Wildcat Covers an Arrest, Loses an Editor
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, Teachable Moment, tagged Arizona Daily Wildcat, College Journalism, College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper on December 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The managing editor of the Arizona Daily Wildcat at the University of Arizona was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct late last month during a taping of ESPN’s “College GameDay.” Students staffers at the top-notch paper suddenly faced the eternal ugh-tastic j-dilemma: how to cover one of your own. – Their decision ultimately led to [...]
Campus Buzz Listing: College Media on Twitter
Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, tagged College Journalism, College Media, Journalism, Media, New Media, Student Journalism, Twitter on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Campus Buzz has a new list bringing together the tweets of more than 300 campus media outlets onto one Twitter page. Especially in the absence of UWIRE, it is an appreciated way to gain at least a barebones glimpse of what’s going down in the campus news world at any given moment. – Separately, below [...]
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