College Media Matters

The Associated Press is reporting that a compromise has been reached in the standoff between The Daily Nebraskan and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  As CMM previously posted, the conflict has played out in three parts: The DN formed a new special projects desk this semester.  Staffers on the new desk made requests for university documents that UNL administrators [...]

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September 24- It now even has a name: “The Quinnipiac Student Journalism Showdown.”   A posting yesterday on “The Paper Trail” blog for U.S. News & World Report under that headline provides a nice summary of the prolonged, increasingly-nasty free press fight at Quinnipiac University that CMM has previously written about.   On a side note, [...]

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September 23- UNL administrators are suddenly MIA in the DN.    In a recent staff editorial, Daily Nebraskan editors wrote that reporters’ requests for various public documents from University of Nebraska-Lincoln officials have prompted a far-reaching administrative silence.  “Let’s just say our administration wasn’t too happy with us asking for documents, and soon some of the most important voices on [...]

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September 16- One student editor calls it a “a high school ‘he said/she said’ situation.”   Accusations and angry words are hot off the presses and aboil in the blogosphere from all sides involved in the Quinnipiac free press fight, including: the university administration; the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ); student staffers at The Chronicle student newspaper; student staffers [...]

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September 16- The craziness at Quinnipiac continues.   In a September 7th posting, I outlined the university’s heavy-handed efforts at controlling content in The Quinnipiac Chronicle, the official student newspaper.  Disgruntled staffers courageously started their own indy, The QUAD News, which began publishing this fall to the anger of administrators.  And now administrators are taking [...]

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September 12- The Inkwell has not run dry at Armstrong Atlantic State University but it does have less school support to sustain itself.   According to a recent Connect Savannah report, the student newspaper is suing AASU for cutting the school-supported newspaper’s budget by 21 percent allegedly in retaliation for the paper’s ”decidedly more aggressive stance” toward the [...]

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September 1- The Progress is making progress in its free speech fight.   The student newspaper at Eastern Kentucky University celebrated a bit of a breakthrough in its efforts to obtain access to full versions of university police reports. Currently, university police deliver reports weekly and withhold key information, including arrestees’ addresses, claiming invasion of [...]

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August 26- Over the weekend, Northern Light student newspaper staffers at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) were locked out of their newsroom.     The cause was not a censorious administration or an angry reader stunt. It was due to a university policy, one that limits access to the school’s student union (where the [...]

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