The endorsing of political candidates prior to elections is a journalistic tradition older than the inverted pyramid and Larry King, combined. Many college newspapers trod a similar endorsement path with student government candidates- penning editorials prior to campus elections spotlighting the contenders they feel will be the best holders of particular offices. – The Daily [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Ethics’
SMU Daily Campus: “Why We Endorse Candidates”
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, Teachable Moment, tagged College Media, Ethics, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Media Ethics, Student Media, Student Newspaper on March 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Kansas Student Body President: Cut Daily Kansan’s Funding
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged College Media, College Newspaper, Ethics, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper on March 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Eternal Ethical Question: A Student (Journalist’s) Identity
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, New Media, Student Newspaper, Teachable Moment, tagged Campus Journalism, College Media, Ethics, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, New Media, Student Newspaper on March 9, 2010 | 1 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 his excellent write-up on the situation: – Mike Wacker ’10 is a Sun columnist whose ‘Wack Attack’ column appears alternate Wednesdays. Wacker recently arranged [...]
Racial Slur Leads to Student Media Funding Freeze at UCSD
Posted in Broadcast Journalism, College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged Ethics, Student Journalism, College Journalism, Campus Journalism, Journalism, Free Press, Campus Newspaper, Humor Magazine on February 24, 2010 | 1 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. – Late last week, the editor of the Koala, a controversial UCSD student humor newspaper [...]
Student Newspaper Drops Rising Death Toll from Front Page
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, tagged College Journalism, College Media, Ethics, Iraq, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, U.S. Military 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. [...]
Plagiarism Equals Expulsion for Once Mighty Mac Arthur
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, tagged College Media, Ethics, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Media Ethics 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 [...]
Florida Journalism Student Fired for Plagiarizing Stories from New York Times
Posted in Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Teachable Moment, tagged Ethics, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Media, New York Times, Student Journalism 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 [...]
To Save or Delete? That is the Question
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged Ethics, Free Press Fights, New Media 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 [...]
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