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 ‘Journalism 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 »
Update: KU Student Senate Finance Committee Votes to Cut Daily Kansan Funding
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, tagged College Media, College Newspaper, Daily Kansan, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Journalism, Student Newspaper on March 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Student Senate Finance Committee at Kansas University has fired the first real shot amid the increasingly heated war of words regarding funding for The Daily Kansan student newspaper. – As I first blogged about late last week, the Daily Kansan is facing a potential cut of $83,000 to its budget. Why? Because some members [...]
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 [...]
Arizona Daily Wildcat Covers an Arrest, Loses an Editor
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, Teachable Moment, tagged Arizona Daily Wildcat, College Journalism, College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper on December 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The managing editor of the Arizona Daily Wildcat at the University of Arizona was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct late last month during a taping of ESPN’s “College GameDay.” Students staffers at the top-notch paper suddenly faced the eternal ugh-tastic j-dilemma: how to cover one of your own. – Their decision ultimately led to [...]
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. [...]
Minnesota Daily Makes *Tough* Online Ethics Decision
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged College Journalism, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Media, Minnesota Daily, New Media, Online Ethics, Student Journalism, Student Newspaper on August 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In the mega-huge photo above the story, the student is smiling. From the story and caption, we quickly learn the student’s age (23), his origins (Tunisia), his academic concentration while studying at the University of Minnesota (English literature), his first name (Ashref), and even the style and color of his shoes (red Keds). In late [...]
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 [...]
Student Plagiarist Mac Arthur Meets with School Officials
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, tagged College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Independent Florida Alligator is reporting that Hailey Mac Arthur, the University of Florida student recently caught plagiarizing from the New York Times during an internship with a Colorado newspaper, has met with administrators from the university’s College of Journalism and Communication. – Due to privacy rules, there is no word on how the meeting [...]
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 | 11 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 [...]
Student Media Spotlight Loses Luster for Some Alums
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged Journalism, Journalism Ethics, New Media, Student Media on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A growing number of university alumni are attempting to put their more personal, unprofessional or cringe-worthy moments in the student media spotlight behind them. – According to a new report in The Chronicle of Higher Education*, some alums are asking SMOs (student media outlets) to remove articles from their online archives that they say [...]
Student Activist Uses Hidden Camera, YouTube to Further Anti-Abortion Cause
Posted in Future of Journalism, Journalism Ethics, New Media, tagged Journalism Ethics, New Media on April 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A college student activist on an anti-abortion crusade has employed new media (and a bit of acting) to spread her eye-opening message across the World (Wide Web). Lila Rose, an undergraduate at UCLA, is 20 going on 13 . . . at least that’s the age she pretends to be during the half dozen “sting” [...]
Can You Spot the Real Daily Bruin Front Page?
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, tagged College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Media, Student Newspaper on April 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The latest ethical conundrum in collegemediatopia is brought to you by the letter B. Try the guessing game below. Which one is the real front page and which is the deceptively-designed wrap ad? – As fellow college media blogger Bryan Murley, who oozes innovation over at CICM, first reported and graciously passed my way: Daily [...]
Should Student Press Have Covered Obama Inauguration?
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Education, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, tagged College Journalism, Inauguration, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Obama, Student Journalism, Student Newspaper, The Villanovan on February 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Villanovan, the daily student newspaper at Villanova University, in my beloved hometown of Philadelphia, Pa., USA, did not provide a lot of coverage of the Obama Inauguration. Some readers complained. Editors responded, in an intriguing editorial headlined “The Role of a College Newspaper“: —- The Villanovan is and always has been the student paper of [...]
University President’s Son Arrested on Pot Charge: How to Cover It?
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, tagged College Journalism, College Media, Indiana Daily Student, Indiana University President, Journalism Ethics, Marijuana, Michael McRobbie, Student Newspaper on January 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The son of Indiana University President Michael McRobbie was arrested over the weekend for allegedly smoking up- marijuana and drug paraphernalia charges are pending. ——- The Indiana Daily Student rightfully ran a short piece yesterday on the arrest and the incidents leading to it. The article is brief and well-written, noting the connection to the [...]
