Posts Tagged ‘Journalism Ethics’

In early January, I posted a blog item about a change at a little-known student news outlet, as reported by a little-known professional news outlet.  I’d come across the original news item a month before my posting, saving it for the winter break dead zone when not much is happening in collegemediatopia. ——— Almost immediately [...]

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The Gonzaga Bulletin has stirred publicity and a bit of controversy for its recent rejection of a pro-life advertisement. The 12-page ad insert, titled “We Know Better Now,” “vigorously argues for the pro-life position. . . . arguing that it is now better known that abortion kills a human being, that it hurts women, and [...]

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Wide receiver and return specialist Bryant Eteuati played in a game for Weber State University’s football team last Saturday.  His return to the field marked the end of a journalistic drama that started about a month before, immediately after his arrest on outstanding warrants for aggravated assault that he’d accrued for hitting people with his car.   [...]

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“Your president is black. How does that make you feel?”   A leaflet with those words were slipped inside hundreds of copies of The Brown and White student newspaper at Pennsylvania’s Lehigh University last week, without editors’ knowledge or permission. The paper’s EIC noted: “Probably someone came around and stuffed them in into each copy. [...]

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Charges of racism have been levied against The Daily Wildcat at the University of Arizona after the paper ran a political cartoon in its Wednesday issue that included the N-word.  The syndicated cartoon, headlined in part “Stories from the Campaign Trail,” recounted an actual recent event in which a Pennsylvania couple told a canvasser they [...]

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A short article run in The Chronicle at Duke University earlier this month about a student’s attempted suicide has spurred vicious criticism on campus and even a poster campaign calling for the editor in chief’s resignation.   Via College Rag, critics’ two main points of contention: The article effectively identifies the student involved (by naming his dorm and gender, [...]

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An advertisement linking Muslims with terrorism has caused a mini-brouhaha at UC-Santa Barbara.  The Daily Nexus, the school’s student newspaper, ran the ad (from The David Horowitz Freedom Center) on page three of yesterday’s print edition, citing free speech and editorial-advertising separation.  The paper also ran a story ABOUT the ad (talk about free advertising!), explaining [...]

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