It took a bit more than a week. It hovered around the edges of it over the last few days. And now it has officially become not just a saga but a full-blown soap opera. My suggested title: The Fired and the Tactless. The latest bit of news in the continuing story of ousted East Carolina University student media director Paul Isom is a public sparring between Isom and the school over his personnel records.
Posts Tagged ‘Free Press’
Latest Round in East Carolina Fired Director Fight: Release of Director’s Personnel Records
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged College, Education, Free Press, Student Journalism, Technology on January 13, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Student Press Coverage of Dean Candidate’s Speech Restricted at Swarthmore
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, Teachable Moment, tagged Campus Newspaper, College Journalism, College Media, Free Press, Journalism, Open Access, Student Newspaper on March 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
How open should the higher education administration hiring process be? When is a position at a college or university influential enough to warrant public and student press scrutiny of candidates’ remarks while they are on campus? – The Daily Gazette at Swarthmore College recently faced a related student press roadblock. In late January, the newspaper’s [...]
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 »
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, [...]
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 | 2 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 [...]
Northern Kentucky Student Newspaper Drops Resistance Ad
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, tagged College Journalism, College Media, Free Press, Media, Student Journalism, Student Media, Student Newspaper on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Northerner has apologized for running the Resistance. The Northern Kentucky University student newspaper issued a mea culpa for featuring an advertisement in two recent issues for Resistance Records, which sells “white supremacist music” (I’m putting that in quotes because I do not know and do not even want to know what that might entail). [...]
Emerald Publisher Hired Four Months After Strike About Hiring a Publisher
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Future of Journalism, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged College Journalism, College Media, Emerald, Free Press, Future of Journalism, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Media, Oregon, Student Newspaper on August 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
More than four months after staffers at The Emerald, the University of Oregon student newspaper, staged a high-profile, socially-networked strike over the hiring of an outside publisher, an outside publisher (with an insider’s credibility) has been named. – According to The Eugene Register-Guard, the student paper’s board voted unaminously to hire Kellee Weinhold after a [...]
Admissions Office Hides Student Papers with “Craigslist Killer” Stories
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged College Media, Free Press, Journalism, Student Journalism, Student Newspaper on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The connection of the so-called “Craigslist Killer” to Boston University has been publicly reported worldwide, but the BU Admissions Office would rather not remind potential students and their parents coming to campus for a visit. Instead, certain admissions staffers have decided to literally hide the free press, removing from public view all issues of The [...]
Obama Cartoon Leads to Student Press Oversight Battle
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged College Media, Editorial Cartoon, Free Press, Obama, Student Journalism, Student Newspaper on March 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Chronicle student newspaper at Scottsdale Community College in Arizona published a syndicated editorial cartoon last month displaying an image of Obama that some outside readers felt was “too monkey-like.” The result: A controversy over control of the publication that continues to brew more than a month after the cartoon ran. — The cartoon first [...]
Sex Column Controversy at Montana: Law Professor Wants it Stopped!
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged College Media, Free Press, Sex Column, Student Journalism, Student Newspaper, Student Press Law Center on March 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Kristen Juras, a law professor at the University of Montana, is currently on a sexual witch hunt so ludicrous it pains me to think she might have tenure. Specifically, Juras is out to stop The Kaimin student newspaper from publishing a sex column begun this semester, the paper’s first since the column trend started in [...]
Emerald Strike Watch: Bigger Picture Thoughts
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Future of Journalism, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged College Media, Daniel Bachhuber, Emerald, Free Press, Journalism, Oregon, Student Journalism on March 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
College journalist extraordinaire Daniel Bachhuber, a University of Oregon student and ex-Emerald staffer, shares some important bigger-picture thoughts (and those of a colleague) about collegemediatopia’s first major strike in the social networking era. — His premise: The fight is not really about possible editorial control. It’s about the Emerald‘s future. The paper is apparently hurting [...]
25 Random Things About Modern College Media: Part 3
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Future of Journalism, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged Blog, College Journalism, Facebook Random List, Free Press, Journalism, Online Journalism, Shovelware, SOS SASS, Student Media, Twitter on February 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My contribution to the now way-too-popular “Random” list phenomenon continues below with Part 3 of “25 Random Things About Modern College Media.” (Also see Part 1 and Part 2.) As promised, today’s segment is all about the tough love, presenting some of the harsher truths about 21st-century collegemediatopia. First up… — 11) Student media online [...]
Judgment in St. Louis U. Lawsuit Against Student Paper Adviser
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged Avis Meyer, College Journalism, College Media, Free Press, Journalism, Lawsuit, Media, St. Louis University, Student Newspaper, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The University News on December 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A judge has scored round two of the slugfest between St. Louis University and SLU communications professor and student newspaper adviser Avis Meyer squarely for Meyer, according to The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ———– The fight started with an administrative decision last spring to rewrite the charter of The University News student newspaper. The administrators said [...]
links for 2008-12-25
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, Journalism Education, Journalism Ethics, New Media, tagged College Journalism, Free Press, Free Speech, Journalism Education, Journalism Program, Journalism School, Juicy Campus, Miami Herald, Poughkeepsie Journal, Public Records, River Falls Journal, Student Journalism on December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Campus gossip Web site tests freedom of speech”: One student’s take on the continuing Juicy Campus saga (Poughkeepsie Journal) ———– “Students see the possibilities”: A journalism professor writes about what keeps students joining J&MC programs (Miami Herald) ———– “College students learn records may be open, courtesy not a given”: A rundown of j-students’ experiences gathering [...]
Student Newspaper, School Administration Settle Lawsuit
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged Armstrong Atlantic State University, College Journalism, College Media, Free Press, Free Speech, Journalism, News Media, Press Freedom, Student Journalism, Student Newspaper, The Inkwell on November 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The free press battle at The Inkwell appears to be over. The Inkwell student newspaper has settled a lawsuit it brought against its administrative overseers at Georgia’s Armstrong Atlantic State University over what the paper contended was an unfair funding cut tied to its suddenly critical university coverage. According to The Athens Banner-Herald, [...]
Quad News vs. Quinnipiac Prez: Is Free Press Fight Over?
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged College Journalism, College Media, Free Press, Hartford Courant, New Media, Online News, Quad News, Quinnipiac University, Student Journalism on November 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The latest dispatch from the front lines of the Quinnipiac University free press fight, courtesy of The Hartford Courant: QU’s president is now allowing school staffers to speak with reporters from The Quad News, the indy online outlet started this fall by QU j-students after their campus newspaper was stifled by administrators. Previously, all university employees were [...]
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