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Kansas Student Body President: Cut Daily Kansan’s Funding

Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , on March 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Mason Heilman, the student body president at the University of Kansas, is publicly calling for a cut to the campus media portion of the school’s student fees, a move that would shed $83,000 from the budget of the The Daily Kansan. As the Kansan itself reports with admirable objectivity and restraint, his proposal is not [...]

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Eternal Ethical Question: A Student (Journalist’s) Identity

Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, New Media, Student Newspaper, Teachable Moment, tagged , , , , , , on March 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

One of the oldest student journalism ethical tightropes unfurled with a bit of a new media twist recently at Cornell University. As Cornell Daily Sun public editor Rob Tricchinelli explained in hsi excellent write-up on the situation:
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Mike Wacker ‘10 is a Sun columnist whose ‘Wack Attack’ column appears alternate Wednesdays. Wacker recently arranged [...]

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Racial Slur Leads to Student Media Funding Freeze at UCSD

Posted in Broadcast Journalism, College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , , , on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

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.
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Late last week, the editor of the Koala, a controversial UCSD student humor newspaper “everyone loves [...]

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Student Newspaper Drops Rising Death Toll from Front Page

Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , , on September 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »

The new blog is happening- aiming for a post-Labor-Day debut.  In the meantime, a death toll is missing.  In a recent staff editorial, eds. at The Daily Toreador, the student newspaper at Texas Tech, announced that the paper will no longer publish a tally of soldiers killed in fighting in Iraq on its front page. [...]

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Plagiarism Equals Expulsion for Once Mighty Mac Arthur

Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, tagged , , , , on July 9, 2009 | 10 Comments »

The Independent Florida Alligator has verified it, with the help of UF’s journalism department chair: If confirmed, UF rising junior Hailey Mac Arthur’s NYT’s love-fest/plagiarism will result in her expulsion from the College of Journalism and Communications.  (What about from the university or the journalism field in general or from America or Second Life or the [...]

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Florida Journalism Student Fired for Plagiarizing Stories from New York Times

Posted in Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Teachable Moment, tagged , , , , , on July 8, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Somewhere, Tim Tebow is shaking his fists with rage.  In a case of either sheer unethical boldness or unbelievable ignorance, a University of Florida journalism student has sullied the UF championship facade- plagiarizing parts of articles she wrote as an intern for a Colorado newspaper from none other than the New York freakin’ Times.  (As [...]

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To Save or Delete? That is the Question

Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged , , on September 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Aug. 19, 2008 – A Shakespeare-level drama is unfolding at Seattle Pacific University–minus an s.

 
About 10 years ago, SPU student Shakespear Farwythian was arrested for alleged sexual assault. He was suspended from school. The Falcon, the student newspaper, published a story about the incident. The charge was later dropped. The original Falcon story remains [...]

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