Posts Tagged ‘The Daily Collegian’

Student Newspaper Obama Re-election Front Pages: ‘A President Prevails’

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 7, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Along with a number of stirring images and iconic front pages designed and published today by the professional press, the student press has delivered some memorable, historic page ones as well.

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Below is a screenshot sampling college newspaper post-election front pages, including from papers in battleground states and states in which a majority of voters did not support President Obama’s re-election plans.

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Please email or tweet me to add your front page to the mix.

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The Daily Tar Heel, University of North Carolina

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The Daily Princetonian, Princeton University

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The State News, Michigan State University

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The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan

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The Pipe Dream, Binghamton University

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The Ball State Daily News, Ball State University

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The News Record, University of Cincinnati

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The Loyolan, Loyola Marymount University

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The Appalachian, Appalachian State University

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The Loquitur, Cabrini College

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The University Daily Kansan, University of Kansas

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The Oklahoma Daily, University of Oklahoma

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Indiana Daily Student, Indiana University

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The Torch, St. John’s University

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The Oracle, University of South Florida

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The Daily Illini, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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The Daily Reveille, Louisiana State University

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The Observer, Notre Dame University

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The Cavalier Daily, University of Virginia

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The Collegiate Times, Virginia Tech

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The Daily Collegian, Penn State University

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The Minnesota Daily, University of Minnesota

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The Daily Nebraskan, University of Nebraska Lincoln

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The Daily Toreador, Texas Tech University

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The Columbia Daily Spectator, Columbia University

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The Daily Mississippian, University of Mississippi

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The Student Printz, University of Southern Mississippi

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The Daily Texan, University of Texas at Austin

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The Daily Iowan, University of Iowa

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The Daily of the University of Washington

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The Daily Campus, Southern Methodist University

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The Lantern, Ohio State University

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The Yale Daily News, Yale University

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The Daily Northwestern, Northwestern University

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The Daily Orange, Syracuse University

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Penn State Daily Collegian Publishes ‘One Year Later’ Sandusky Scandal Special Section

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on November 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The Daily Collegian at Penn State University published a special section in today’s issue offering a retrospective about various aspects of the high-profile Sandusky scandal that continues to haunt the school.

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The six-page section, titled “One Year Later,” appears on the anniversary of the release of the grand jury presentment that revealed the shockingly graphic charges against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.  It was the day Casey McDermott– the Collegian’s managing editor at the time and now its editor-in-chief– first realized “what a horrific story this would be.”

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The section includes McDermott’s personal reflections on covering the case; a by-the-numbers rundown (such as 2: the number of hours it took to take down the Joe Paterno statue in June); an exclusive report by Collegian metro editor Kristin Stoller detailing the impact of the scandal on Sandusky’s State College neighbors; an assessment of current PSU president Rodney Erickson and the school’s board of trustees; and a separate Q&A with Sandusky’s original attorney Joe Amendola.

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In a sitdown chat in Chicago this past week during the ACP/CMA National College Media Convention, McDermott told me, “I feel like I’ve grown up a lot in the past year, both personally and professionally, largely as a result of this case. . . . We’ve had to face a lot of adult themes because of this story.  We’ve had to conduct ourselves with a lot more maturity than 20-year-olds are often asked to do. . . . This story, if anything, has reinforced the idea that journalism is as important as ever and good journalism is especially important and there’s a way to do things right.  It showed me the kind of journalist I want to be.”

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At the convention, the Collegian earned multiple ACP Pacemaker awards– college media’s highest honor– including best four-year daily student newspaper.

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Penn State Daily Collegian Names Entire ‘Sandusky Scandal’ Staff to Paper’s Hall of Fame

College Newspaper of the Year, 2011-2012: The Daily Collegian, Penn State University

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Penn State Daily Collegian Names Entire ‘Sandusky Scandal’ Staff to Paper’s Hall of Fame

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The entire 2011-2012 editorial and business staff of The Daily Collegian at Penn State University has been named to the paper’s Hall of Fame.  It is an honor almost exclusively given to individual staffers.

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Longtime Collegian general manager Patti Hartranft announced the special selection this past Saturday night at a formal dinner in State College, Pa., part of a weekend-long alumni reunion celebrating the paper’s 125th anniversary.

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As Hartranft said simply during her induction introduction, “Oh, what a year.  When I look back on this year, it’s still absolutely surreal. . . . [The students went on] one of the most amazing journeys in journalism.  I’ve never seen people with a passion and a laser-focus required to provide the world with a perspective of coverage from the inside of something no one would have ever thought would happen at Penn State.  As Penn State students, the story was happening to them.  But as Collegian journalists, they had to rise above the sheer emotion of the moment to tell the story.  And they did. . . . This was a year when sleep was overrated, when a professor told a Collegian editor to get out of class and get back to the office, when pressmen came in on Saturday night to print our [special] Sunday issue, when in January we printed so many papers [for a commemorative issue following football coach Joe Paterno's death] they wouldn’t fit in the racks– that is until they disappeared at 11 a.m. [due to immense reader interest] and we had to print more.  Placing a whole class into the Hall of Fame is a first for the Daily Collegian, but this group will always be special to the organization and for that we honor them.”

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This past summer, I named the Collegian the College Newspaper of the Year, in part for the startlingly good journalism its staff produced while reporting upon the multifaceted, complex, feral, real-time beast of a news story that is the Sandusky scandal.

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College Newspaper of the Year, 2011-2012: The Daily Collegian, Penn State University

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Daily Collegian Photographer Charged in Riot at PSU

Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Future of Journalism, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

First, just for fun, an announcement: I pen this post from Hong Kong, meaning I have now blogged about college media while in four countries (HK, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore).  I write this in the spirit of The Poynter Institute’s esteemed Al Tompkins, who notes with a smile at the start of a How to Vlog video he filmed while in Anchorage, Alaska, “I do admit that Anchorage has nothing to do with this video, but since I’m here I thought I’d mention it, in an attempt to impress you.” 

 

OK, onto the news at hand: A photographer for The Daily Collegian at Penn State University faces charges of disorderly conduct and failure to disperse from a late October post-football-victory riot he was covering for the paper.  According to the Reporter’s Committee for Freedom of the Press, cops twice asked him to scoot, at one point telling him his presence was actually inciting the crowd.  The photog contends he was simply doing his job calmly, acceding to every police request except vacating the scene.

 

It’s an interesting, age-old dilemma, and one that led me on a random new media thought tangent related to this question: What will happen at a PSU football-related riot 10 years from now?  With the blogosphere getting evermore crowded and the line between citizen and journalist becoming blurrier than the global economic outlook (see NYU Local post), what protections will (and should) be in place to protect those “covering” a riot instead of participating in one? 

 

The Daily Collegian is a bread-and-butter college journalism outlet- sporting press cards, enjoying preexisting relationships with the authorities, and producing content that easily passes as “journalism” if police or the courts get curious.  What about the next wave?  What about the riot witness (or even active rioter) who refuses to disperse upon police request and screams journalistic immunity when arrested because he planned to share video of the experience on his popular blog?

 

My prediction, on a surprisingly chilly night in Hong Kong: The times will soon be a-changin’ in collegemediatopia.  Get out the riot gear.

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