Although muted on a national level amid the Notre Dame Observer furor, another student press comic mess has been playing out in Michigan. A four-panel strip run in a recent issue of The Delta Collegiate at Delta College has critics crying racism. – The comic (below) presents a string of gentlemen greeting a visitor to [...]
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Another Student Press Comic Mess Erupts in Michigan
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, Teachable Moment, tagged College Media, College Newspaper, Comic, Controversy, Student Newspaper, Student Pres on January 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Free Press Fights Continue in Los Angeles, Illinois
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged College Media, College Newspaper, Free Press Fights, Innocence Project, Journalism, Northwestern, Press Law, Student Newspaper, Student Press Law Center on January 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Spring semester is now upon us, and a new set of free press fights are in bloom. First up: The Student Press Law Center has penned, signed, and sent a smackdown of a letter to the president of Los Angeles City College, outlining an array of dismaying administrative tactics aimed at controlling content in the [...]
NIU Campus Police Chief Comes Away Clean from Crazy Interview with Student Newspaper
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged College Media, College Newspaper, Media, Student Journalism, Student Newspaper on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The fallout from the strangest interview conducted within collegemediatopia this year is finally over, nearly four full months after it first played out. As I previously posted, the alternately combative and heroic Northern Illinois University campus police chief had been accused by the Northern Star student newspaper editor of descending into madness during a three [...]
Student Newspaper Drops ‘He Said/She Said’ Column After Harassment Charge
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, tagged College Journalism, College Media, College Newspaper, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Journalism, Student Newspaper on December 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Fairfield Mirror has agreed to permanently drop its provocative “He Said/She Said” feature more than two months after Fairfield University students filed harassment charges against the newspaper for publishing a controversial “He Said” column that some felt “promot[ed] rape and violence against women.” – The newspaper’s senior executive board announced in a public letter [...]
Satirical One-Night Stand Column Spurs Controversy
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, tagged College Media, College Newspaper, Journalism, Media, Student Newspaper on December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A supposedly satirical column in the Dakota Student that advises men on how to execute successful one-night stands is being criticized at the University of North Dakota “as a guide on how to commit rape . . . [and for] joking about abuse.” – The piece, headlined “One-Night Standing: The Method,” informs students that following [...]
University of California Campus Newspapers Editorialize (Mostly) Against Student Fees Hike
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged College Media, College Newspaper, Editorials, Journalism, Media, Student Newspaper on November 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Along with providing top-notch coverage of the outcry over the recent student fees increase within the University of California system, UC campus newspapers are also fighting back in editorials. Below is a rundown of a few standout pieces at student papers throughout the state. – Daily Californian: “The Last Straw” “What the regents clearly don’t [...]
Fairfield Student Newspaper Faces Harassment Charge
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged College Media, College Newspaper, Free Press Fight, Journalism, SPLC, Student Newspaper on November 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The student newspaper at Fairfield University is being charged with harassment by the school’s student conduct board for a satirical sex column published in late September- the first time this charge has been levied against an organization instead of an individual at FU. – A Boston Herald report: “The controversy erupted over a satirical column [...]
Memphis Student Newspaper Copies “Absolutely” Trashed
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, Student Newspaper Theft, tagged College Media, College Newspaper, Journalism, Media, Student Newspaper on November 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Well, I will give her credit for clarity. The sister of a University of Memphis student suspected of burning the rainbow flag outside the Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center said she “absolutely” trashed hundreds- possibly thousands- of copies of the The Daily Helmsman that featured a story on her brother’s misdeeds. – But of course, [...]
Montana Football Coach Bans Team from Speaking with Student Newspaper
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged College Media, College Newspaper, Journalism, Media, Student Journalism, Student Newspaper on October 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
University of Montana football coach Bobby Hauck is throwing a prolonged temper tantrum worthy of Will.i.am aimed directly at the student press. He is refusing to speak to The Montana Kaimin, the school’s student newspaper, and has instructed his team and staff to boycott the publication as well. Why? Because, wait for it, the Kaimin [...]
Daily Cal: “Let’s Talk About Sex” & Student Press Freedom
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Student Newspaper, tagged College Media, College Newspaper, Journalism, Press Freedom, Student Newspaper on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In a recent editorial, the senior editorial board of The Daily Californian, the independent student newspaper at UC-Berkeley, tsk-tsked both parties involved in Towson University’s Towerlight sex column controversy. According to the write-up, student press freedom, not sex, was the real issue at stake in the “Bed Post” dispute- and the Towerlighteditor’s resignation and the Towson president’s financial [...]
Bulletin Bounced Due to California State Budget Cuts
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged College Media, College Newspaper, Economic, Journalism, Student Media, Student Newspaper on September 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The California budget mess has now sadly claimed a college media victim: The Bulletin, the student newspaper at California State University, Dominguez Hills. It has been axed, a victim not for its journalistic value but its costs. – Specifically, budget cuts throughout the CSU system have precipitated the Bulletin‘s disappearing act, leaving CSU Dominguez Hills [...]
Part Two of Nicholas Persac Interview: Daily Reveille Editor Talks Hurricanes, the Cops Beat, and “Sex Hot Spots”
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalist Spotlight, Student Newspaper, tagged College Media, College Newspaper, Daily Reveille, Journalism, New Media, Student Journalism, Student Newspaper on August 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When we last left Nicholas Persac, he was in the eye of a hurricane. At the close of part one of our *epic* interview, the Daily Reveille editor in chief had just begun to tell the tale of a journalistic experience of a lifetime: covering a natural disaster in the making. – – Prior to his [...]
Same Old Stories, Semester after Semester
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Magazine Journalism, Story Ideas, Student Newspaper, tagged College Media, College Newspaper, Journalism, Nanyang Tech, NTU, Singapore, SOS SASS on January 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
As part of my research into the Singaporean student press, I have been conducting long-form interviews with every current and former Singaporean college journalist who matters. The sitdowns so far have taught me some interesting truths about journalism in Singapore certainly, but even more than that they have revealed that certain tenets of college journalism [...]
J-Students + Charter Bus = Obama Inauguration Trip
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged College Journalism, College Media, College Newspaper, Obama, Presidential Inauguration, SIUC, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Daily Egyptian on January 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One hundred journalism students from Southern Illinois University Carbondale will soon be hopping a charter to spend a “crazy three days” covering all-things-Obama in Inauguration-happy D.C., according to an AP report. ——– They’ll be filing content for The Daily Egyptian, the SIUC student newspaper, and The Southern Illinoisan and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. One hundred [...]
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