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Collegian editor-in-chief Dervedia Thomas today agreed to pull the advertisement after talking to the university’s general counsel, as part of an agreement that she and university officials would work to establish more concrete guidelines about advertising content.

“This is not to say I am going to have ads approved by her,” Thomas said. “And she is not demanding that kind of position. We agreed to sit down and discuss guidelines for the future.”

According to Thomas, Prioleau’s original complaint against the advertisement was that “it was not in keeping with the image they were trying to present of the university.”

Slumber Parties

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At least 34 student newspapers signed a letter supporting The Daily Emerald’s strike as of Thursday night. The effort appears to be led by Daily Californian editor Bryan Thomas. Editors from the U.S. and Canada have signed the editorial below.

Joint Emerald Editorial Final Updated 34 Schools

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Another one bites the dust. This time, at the Washington Square News.

Effective [Feb. 13], there will no longer be Friday print editions. Circulation will be reduced from 10,000 copies a day to 7,000. Our culture magazine, Brownstone, will no longer be a print publication. Included are other behind-the-scenes cuts, too, such as lowered staff stipends and plans to scale back summer issues.

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A bomb threat Sunday forced The Daily Tar Heel out of its offices. From the street, reporters made calls, updated the Web site on laptops and Twittered updates. The staff evacuated around 9:15 p.m. and wasn’t allowed back in the building until the early morning. The (Raleigh) News & Observer’s Campus Notes blog has an interview with Daily Tar Heel Editor Allison Nichols about the experience. Nichols also blogs about the event for the DTH.

From the N&O’s article:

Booted from their newsroom, reporters and editors spent the next several hours huddled under a nearby streetlight in temperatures that hovered around the mid-30s. …

For hours, the paper’s Web site, kept up to date by that small huddled mass under the streetlight, was a UNC-CH student’s best source of information.

Disclaimer: College Rag’s posters are both editors at The Daily Tar Heel who covered the bomb threat.

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A teaser on al.com says that The Auburn Plainsman’s general manager resigned after last week’s above-the-fold pg. 1 editorial. But the link on al.com is broken and you can’t read the rest of the article. Can anyone confirm whether the general manager has resigned or not?

All you can see of the teaser (dated Feb. 17): 

Auburn University Newspaper Manager Retires After Editorial Calls For Her To Be Fired: Auburn Plainsman, the student newspaper at Auburn University, has run a front-page editorial calling on the school’s administration to fire the newspaper’s full-time, adult general manager. Faculty and the student editors of the newspape…

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An Austin American-Statesman columnist said a picture of a man and woman in the seeming throes of passion that appeared in the Daily Texan is why college newspapers know how to save newspapers.

From the column:

Ah, those libertines at UT. You wouldn’t see this photo on the front page of the newspaper in Odessa. Come to think of it, you won’t see this photo in this newspaper, either. Ain’t college fun?

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Of course, the reaction to this is that the UT students will look at the photograph and yawn, the parents are going to look at it and say “Oh my God,” and I’m looking at it and thinking, “Maybe this is the way to save newspapers.”

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The Daily News, Ball State University’s student newspaper, is cutting its Friday print edition because of budget woes. They are also trimming circulation from 14,000 to 10,000.

The plan, Daily News adviser John Strauss said, is “to produce a strong online edition for Fridays and use this as an opportunity to force ourselves to do a better job on the Web.”

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The Auburn Plainsman ran an editorial above the fold on pg. 1 today warning about the possible destruction of the newspaper. It says the Plainsman will not be able to support itself in two years and calls for its general manager to be fired.

Here’s a clip CR received. No such article appears on the paper’s Web site, but the site has not been updated with today’s content.

Auburn

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No, says the editorial board of the Western Courier, the student newspaper of Western Illinois University.

From the edit:

One argument, however, is understandable as to why students on a small campus go into an uproar when they see something published that they are not used to. The main argument: was it necessary, or was it just done to get attention? These are legitimate critiques, but things involving college print media has to be done up-to-par with massive publications such as the Chicago Sun-Times or the Chicago Tribune. Also, looking at those publications on any given day, it is almost expected to see controversial stories side-by-side with relevant photographs. 

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The Independent Florida Alligator made a controversial decision to run the photo of a dead man on its front page Thursday. It accompanied a story about a man found stabbed to death in a movie theater parking lot.

Readers sound off in letters. Letter 1, Letter 2

Excerpt from one:

Have you ever heard the words “journalism integrity” before? For the last two years I have watched the Alligator make a mockery out of journalism, but Thursday’s story is just too much.

I’ve sat back and read your crass stories and viewed your questionable pictures, but what I found on your cover disturbed me the most. Why would you ever put a picture of a dead person in your paper, let alone on the cover?

UF dead body front page

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The three main media outlets at the University of Massachusetts, the Daily Collegian, WMUA and the Amherst Wire, had a summit Wednesday to discuss ways they can collaborate.

Among their ideas were a multimedia cross-promotion agreement and a style guide.

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Tim Hussin, a senior at the University of Florida, beat out 565 other applicants to be named college photographer of the year.

He will intern at the National Georgraphic this summer. He’s also worked for the The Independent Florida Alligator and The Gainesville Sun and interned at Salt Lake City’s Deseret News and the Rocky Mountain News in Denver.

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In response to criticism that the Villanovan did not adequately cover President Barack Obama’s inauguration, its editorial board has written an explanation of what it sees as its role.

The Villanovan is and always has been the student paper of Villanova, not a national newspaper. There are four complimentary national papers on campus; students should turn to these for daily coverage. When you want to read about Villanova and students’ reactions and reflections, though, we’re your paper.

The paper also describes recent moves to intensify its focus: eliminating the World News and “Around the Big 5″ sections.

College Media Matters weighs in here.

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The editor-in-chief of the University of North Dakota-based Student Journal might be asked to pay $3,000 in restitution after a series of miscommunications and missed deadlines.

From the Grand Forks Herald:

An accidental doubling of a $3,750 allocation given to the paper to produce its first two issues resulted in the deficit when the mistake was realized and corrected — after the money already had been spent on producing the next three issues.

Luke Miller, managing editor of The Student Journal, said the extra money resulting from the accounting error was not intentionally spent. The creators of the paper had requested a second allocation of $4,935 and simply believed that money had already been deposited, he said.

“We didn’t realize they wait to give the second allocation,” he said. “That’s the mistakes on everyone’s part.”

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The editorial board at the Daily Illini has written an editorial defending Michael Felletter, the Daily Collegian photographer who is facing prosecution for photgraphing a rally.

From the editorial:

It might have been in his personal interest as a student to leave the scene. But it was in the public’s best interest, particularly the student body’s best interest, to stay and document the rally. Felletter was serving the greater good. Had he not shown up to or remained at the rally, The Daily Collegian would not have adequately covered the rally, and the public would not have been informed of its consequences.

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Today is the deadline to apply to lead UC-Berkeley’s journalism school, and so far 365 have applied, Editor and Publisher reports.

The dean’s post has been somewhat in limbo for more than a year and a half, since former dean Orville Schell stepped down in mid-2007, his initial replacement surprisingly withdrew four months after accepting the job, and college officials put off a second search for nearly a year.

“It obviously did not work out as everyone had hoped,” said Robert Berring, associate dean at the University’s Boalt Law School and chair of the J-school dean search committee. “That withdraw put things in kind of a holding pattern.”

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The University of Kansas won the Hearst intercollegiate writing competition. Its writers went one-two in the in-depth category. The school also won in 2008 and 2007.

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Penn State’s Daily Collegian photographer Michael Felletter is facing refiled charges of failure to disperse and disorderly conduct for photographing an Oct. 25 riot on assignment.

From the Collegian:

Terry Casey, editor in chief of the Collegian, has maintained Felletter’s case is a First Amendment issue and will continue to support the photographer.

Felletter was not participating in the riot by taking photographs, Casey said — he was documenting it.

But [District Attorney Michael ]Madeira, who believes the case does not involve the freedom of the press, said last week the prosecution’s opinion of the evidence against the photographer had not wavered.

“[Felletter] was participating in a riot by taking photographs that would excite the crowd and encourage destructive behavior, and refused orders to disperse,” according to the criminal complaint.

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The editor-in-chief of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln paper, the Daily Nebraskan, has resigned because of poor grades.

From the AP:

Hernandez says he was on academic probation in the fall and expected to be on probation again in the spring semester. Daily Nebraskan policies prevent students from working at the newspaper if they are on probation for multiple semesters.

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The Spectator at the University of Wisonsin-Eau Claire announced that it will cut salaries and unveiled its redesign today. Among the changes include use of a sidebar and description of the top story in each section.

Because of multiple factors, including economic concerns and lowered advertising revenue, we have cut a position and salaries across the board. As a result we need your help to keep the newspaper covering news and events you care about. And although we encourage debate and discussion surrounding controversial issues, you’re money will not be funding anything unnecessarily offensive.

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David Veselenak, news editor at Central Michigan University’s CM Life, wrote in the paper’s Voices section opposing the journalism school’s decision to forgo accreditation. The school has said that accreditation doesn’t meet with students needs, and will give the department more flexibility in course offerings. Veselenak says that many students looking for accreditation will be turned off from Central Michigan.

From the column:

If the department realizes their students need more new media experience, then shouldn’t the courses currently in the curriculum reflect that push? Couldn’t classes such as JRN 312: Reporting and JRN 202: Writing for the Mass Media require students to report a story using multimedia?

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Richard Procter, the editor of The California Aggie at the University of California-UC Davis announced Monday that the 12,000 circulation paper will cease publication on Fridays. The cuts are due to budgetary concerns, and the paper plans to publish stories online that would have gone in a Friday edition. Procter says other cuts will be explained in Tuesday’s paper.

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Saying that accreditation standards would keep the school from providing necessary journalism instruction, the Central Michigan University journalism school will be refusing accreditation when their current term ends this year.

From the CM Life:

Maria Marron, journalism department chairwoman, said accreditation does not serve the purposes of the department, in terms of future student needs.

“The media industry is in massive decline nationwide, and we think we’re better off not having to form to accrediting standards,” Marron said, “in order to prepare (students) for what jobs remain.”

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Associated Collegiate Press has uploaded a bunch of student newspapers’ front pages for President Obama’s inauguration to Flickr. If you’re not on the list, you can send them your front here.

Check out the slideshow.

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College Media Advisers has formally censured Western Oregon University after the student newspaper adviser was fired for Western Oregon Journal staffers who found a security breach on the school’s computer system and wrote about it.

Background from Law and Disorder:

When a student at Western Oregon University came across a file on the campus network in 2007 that contained names, Social Security numbers, grade point averages, and other data from former students, he wrote it up. The school responded by (secretly) searching the newspaper’s offices and eventually failing to rehire the paper’s adviser. Another student was allegedly almost expelled.

Here’s the letter of censure:

090112WOULetterCensure

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Innovation in College Media has a good list of student newspapers covering Barack Obama’s inauguration (with links). Here’s the quick list: The Pitt News, The Daily Tar Heel, The Georgetown Voice, Doane College, the GW Hatchet.

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Students from Boston University’s College of Communication are set to collaborate with The New England Center for Investigative Reporting in an effort to “produce original, in-depth reports for area media.”

“Our core belief is that investigative reporting is one of democracy’s most important tools for providing citizens with the information they need to hold the powerful accountable and to make informed decisions,” said NECIR director Joe Bergantino, an adjunct faculty member at the school.

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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln journalism school has approved curriculum changes that “places a deeper, more thorough emphasis on awareness, understanding and application of online journalism skills,” according to an associate professor there.

More specifically, news/editorial, broadcast news and production majors along with advertising majors will increasingly play active roles in learning how to produce and publish content on the Web.

Stories CoJMC students write, photographs, advertising, marketing campaigns, video news reports and documentaries will be produced by hundreds of CoJMC students for the NewsNetNebraska Web site.

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More than 100 journalism students from Southern Illinois University will be covering Barack Obama’s inauguration next week, filing stories, photos and video for the Daily Egyptian (the SIU student newspaper), The Southern Illinoisan of Carbondale and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

From the AP:

Diana Soliwon is looking forward to the trip, calling it “any journalist’s dream” and a “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity.

The group will leave Carbondale next Monday on a charter bus, attend the inauguration the next day before heading back to southern Illinois that night.

Another student, Tom Young, figures it’s going to be a crazy three days, and he’s not expecting much sleep.

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John O. Lumpkin, the Associated Press vice president for U.S. and Latin America, has been named the new director of the School of Journalism at Texas Christian University, the Daily Skiff reports.

Whillock [dean of the College of Communication] said Lumpkin’s background with the AP gave him a unique perspective on the changing field of journalism and ultimately distinguished him from the other applicants.

“His background in the AP, his professional background, we were very interested in because it is a broader view of journalism than someone who might just be the managing editor for a particular newspaper,” Whillock said.

Lumpkin said he expects changes to the program to include the introduction of a convergence lab.

“Generally what is included in a convergence lab is the technology to be able to create content in different media platforms simultaneously,” Lumpkin said.

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The valiant student journalists at Faribault High School (see background here and here) are launching an online newspaper after their traditional paper was shut down by administrators.

From the Star-Tribune:

The owner of a company that creates Web sites for student publications is offering student editors of the Echo a free site.

“We wanted to make sure they had a chance to keep publishing,” said Jason Wallestad, owner of School Newspapers Online. “Our goal is to help student journalism as much as we can.”

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The Web site — truthwithecho.com — is under development and will likely have its name changed, Echo editor Christen Hildebrandt said. It will cover school news and events, but won’t have any association with the district or use any of its resources, he said.

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The Center for Innovation in College Media will be hiring an intern for the spring to help with its blog, who will be paid $500.

Job description:

• Podcast interviews with media movers and shakers.
• Reviews of college media online initiatives.
• Maps and databases of college media online sites.
• Live video streams of conferences and/or interviews.
• Round-ups of relevant new media writing.

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Journalism professors at the University of Tennessee attended a Web journalism workshop with the intention of incorporating online media into their classes, according to the school’s Web site.

According to Jim Stovall, UT professor in journalism and electronic media, it is the future of journalism and should be incorporated in every journalism course.

“The ground has shifted in this journalism and electronic media world,” he said to a room of UT journalism professors and instructors. “Things have changed. It’s changed so much, and next week, it’s going to change some more.”

In an attempt to shed light on the “800-pound gorilla” that is online journalism, Stovall encouraged professors and instructors to start implementing it in their courses.

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The University of Minnesota student newspaper, the Minnesota Daily, plans to stop publishing a print edition on Fridays, instead publishing online.

From the Star-Tribune:

Advertising had been declining steadily, and in September, “everything blew up,” said Vadim Lavrusik, the paper’s editor-in-chief and one of three co-publishers.

Without cuts, the paper’s revenues were headed 30 to 35 percent below budget for the year, said co-publisher John Scholz. So the team announced changes. Among them: slashing bonuses, paying per story rather than per hour, combining the sports and news sections, publishing four days a week instead of five.

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Kent State University has published a Web site describing how its converged newsroom (print, radio, online, television) came to be and how it has worked. It’s described as a shotgun wedding.

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The Georgia Southern University student paper, the George-Anne, is reworking its newsroom in a plan to move off a daily schedule, then return to daily publication in the next year.

The paper had been daily for two years, but editor-in-cheif Keith Warburg reports that grades have been dropping, as well as staff counts. Right now the paper has eight editors, five assistants, two copy editors and 15 writers on staff.

Here are the changes, part of a plan called “Drive for Five” because it is a 5-year plan and a quest for 5-day publication:

• The EIC will now serve as a “publisher” in charge of hiring and managing the staff, and
  serving as a figurehead for the organization.
• Publication will reduce to Tuesdays and Thursdays.
• Each of the paper’s six publications will have its own EIC and managing editor. The six: the newspaper, a monthly glossy magazine, a semiannual art & literature magazine, a city guide for incoming freshmen, a graduation special edition and the Web site. The publications will share desk editors, but build up seperate staffs.
• An assignment editor position will be created. Editors will send story ideas to the assignment editor, who will work with writers to assign and retrieve the stories on time and send them to the editor.

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After two years of being online-only, the Whalesong at the University of Alaska Southeast will resume publishing a print product, the Capital City Weekly reports.

Whalesong Editor Laura Lemire, a 22-year-old communications major from Vermont, was the paper’s editor when it went out of print years ago. Lemire said she stayed on board in hopes of seeing the paper reemerge in print. With just one semester left before graduation, Lemire saw that goal come to fruition on Wednesday.

“This is something I’ve wanted for so long and so badly, and it’s great to see it finally happening,” she said. “I think students will be very happy to see (the Whalesong) back on campus.”

The Whalesong will be on newsstands at the UAS campus this week and copies can be picked up at other high-traffic locations around Juneau.

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Journalism students at the University of West Virginia are completing multimedia story projects for rural newspapers, then teaching those papers’ writers the skills needed to produce them, the State-Journal reports.

The students learned to use new equipment and software and to integrate text, photographs and video into vivid news reporting and storytelling.

Their stories include one on a camouflage-themed wedding in Nicholas County, one on the Potomac Eagle excursion train in Hampshire County and one on the Alldredge Academy program for troubled teenagers in Tucker County.

In the second phase this coming spring semester, students will train newsroom staff in the techniques they’ve learned.

“About half at least, maybe a little more, of the weekly newspapers around the state have Web sites, but in a lot of cases they’re pretty rudimentary sites — they just have basically what’s in the print edition,” Temple said.

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CoPress, the grassroots movement to host college newspapers, has announced its first site hosting plan, with two participants so far — The Whit weekly student newspaper at Rowan University, and the F Newsmagazine at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Publications will pay a small monthly fee. We’re volunteering our efforts and offering this service at cost, though not to make a profit. CoPress is committed to newspapers being autonomous online; we won’t run any ads on your site, so any revenue you make is 100 percent yours.

The plan is not without critics. The lead developer of Duke University’s Chronicle wrote an e-mail expressing concern about shared hosting space. CoPress responds here.

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Indiana University’s Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses will soon have a sports journalism center led by Tim Franklin, editor of The Baltimore Sun.

From The Reporter-Times:

“Franklin, who has been editor and senior vice president of The Baltimore Sun newspaper since January 2004, said Tuesday that he would be leaving the Sun to take the Louis A. Weil Jr. Endowed Chair with the school of journalism and start the new sports journalism program, to be headquartered in Indianapolis.

“I think Indianapolis is the absolutely best place in the U.S. for a sports journalism center,” Franklin said Tuesday. “From my perspective, the opportunity to build (a sports journalism center) from scratch and grow it, and I hope, have a lasting impact on the school of journalism, is tremendously exciting.”

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The Columbia Missourian will scale back its printing, cutting the Weekend Missourian and a weekday publication, the University of Missouri provost announced. The pape will still publish five times weekly.

From the Missourian:

The three-year agreement ends months-long speculation regarding the paper’s future and further insulates the paper against major budget cuts facing the University of Missouri System. Missourian editors and staff welcomed the announcement as a definitive statement of the newspaper’s mission.

“Now we have a very clear framework to move forward,” said Scott Swafford, a Missourian city editor and an associate professor of journalism at MU.

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Tired of a perceived bias in The Daily Nebraskan, conservative students at the Univeristy of Nebraska-Lincoln have launched a publication imaginatively titled “Student Newspaper.”

From College Media Matters:

In an early December article acknowledging its new competition, The Daily Nebraskan wrote: “From a scathing indictment of ‘The Female O’- a sex education forum held at UNL last month- to a column arguing America is better than all other nations past and present, Student Newspaper certainly has a particular audience in mind.”

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The Editorialiste, whose author has recently graduated from the gradute journalism program at Columbia University, has posted a response to all those who have asked whether it was worth it.

So is j-school worth 65 grand? I honestly don’t think very much is worth 65 grand anyway. A Mercedes isn’t worth 65 grand, nice as it is. So is j-school worth it — “it” being “worth going”?

Yes. If you have the conviction to challenge yourself and learn from the personal experiences that result from that, then yes, I’d say so — whether you end up a journalist or not.

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The Gonzaga Bulletin has drawn fire for refusing to distribute a 12-page pro-life insert titled “We Know Better Now” from the Human Life Alliance. HRA indicated it was surprised a religious institution would reject such an insert, and issued this response:

“The business of abortion is ugly and we think college and university students have a right to read the facts from someone other then abortion providers.”

Gonzaga’s president, Father Spitzer, also responded to the rejection.

“I share with many people around the world a concern for the unborn, and for the sanctity of human life. Gonzaga University has always supported the pro-life movement.”

He said the advertisement was rejected “not from any disagreement with the pro-life cause, but out of a preference to emphasize a positive pro-life message rather than a negative one.”

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College Rag is now utilizing Facebook Connect, as you probably noticed if you came to the site. Let us know if you’re having any problems with the new feature, and we’ll get them fixed. Enjoy!

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Outgoing Independent Florida Alligator editor-in-chief Jessica DaSilva outlines what she feels are the biggest problems facing the paper — and their solutions — in a new blog post.

Another news item: Nicole Safker, this semester’s photo editor, will be next semester’s Alligator editor-in-chief. DaSilva will stay on staff in a new ombudsman position.

College Rag has previously reported on the Alligator’s trials and tribulations.

The top problems DaSilva identfies are turnover, recruitment and image, a lack of technology and equipment, and a focus on the business side to the detriment of the editorial staff.

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Even in this time of job cuts by the thousands, enrollment in the country’s journalism schools is still growing, the Times-Union in Albany reports, with nearly 200,000 undergradutes last year, compared with 130,000 in 1995.

From the story:

“I go to meetings and all I hear is, ‘Oh my God, they just keep coming and coming,’ ” Judy VanSlyke Turk, president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication, said of the students. She added, “I’m really not sure they understand how competitive the job market is.”

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CR told the story last week of two high school students who busted a middle school teacher, circumventing hostile administrators by publishing in the local paper.

Now their high school paper has been shut down by the superintendent, after student editors refused to allow school administrators to review the article.

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A former editorial writer for The Orion, the student newspaper of Chico State University, has begun protesting the paper after being asked to stop writing pieces about the Middle East, local TV station KHSL reports.

Amro Jayousi, 18, said he was being censored and resigned.
From the story: “Amro is a Palestinian and he wrote some articles questioning U.S foreign policy in the Middle East.

A Chico State professor says he was angered by Amour’s anti-Israeli comments so he voiced his concerns to the editors.

Amor says shortly after that the editors wanted him to cover different topics and even went as far as rejecting his ideas for his column.

… The editor of the paper, Genny McLeran, says Jayousi only wanted to cover the Middle East. She says Jayousi chose to resign and the professor had no influence on them their editing decisions.”

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We know this isn’t college media, but who isn’t nostalgic about high school journalism? And damn, these kids are awesome. Two student reporters at Faribault High School busted a middle school teacher by publishing in a local professional paper after threats of censorship and other repercussions from their school’s rag.

From MinnPost.com: “The bylines of two editors of the Echo student newspaper appear on the front page of today’s Faribault Daily News, the result of the students’ end run around the schools superintendent.
The alliance culminates nearly three months of investigation into the alleged conduct of Faribault Middle School teacher Shelly Ann Prieve, who was placed on administrative leave in September after a parent complained of “inappropriate behavior,” the Daily News reported.”

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The Daily Texan, one of only four college newspapers with its own on-site printing press, could be looking to sell its press. The paper’s governing board nixed the idea once this semester, but will reconsider the issue at its January meeting. The paper is looking at bids to see who could print the Texan, but many student journalists say they don’t want the press sold: “Even with the changing face of journalism, I guess they’re all kind of die-hard traditionalists and really believe in the printed Texan and the old-school methods of hard reporting that make the paper what it is,” said Editor-in-Chief Leah Finnegan. “That includes printing our own product here on site.”

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News broke a few days ago that the Independent Florida Alligator could not find an editor for the spring semester. One has now been found, though CR could not find the name.

Current Editor-in-Chief Jessica DaSilva has posted a response on her blog, titled “Crisis at the Alligator.”

     “Let me say this once: This staff is not working here for the money. We didn’t start at this            newspaper for the money, and we’re not going into journalism for the money. We’re not              afraid of long hours and hard work.

      What we’re afraid for is our futures.“

She goes on to describe the trouble of a small staff (”We have five writers. Five.”) and the new skills journalists are expected to know these days (”Today, journalism is not just copy and headlines. We’re being expected to (at the very least) know (X)HMTL, CSS, how to gather/edit audio (and sometimes video), build Soundslides and more. We put out what little we can, but that’s just it; it’s not enough. We don’t have equipment or staff to do what’s necessary to uphold our reputation.”).

Lyndsey Lewis, editor of the Alligator last fall, also threw in her two cents.

     “The news struck me as upsetting but not altogether surprising, as the paper has had problems with staff turnover for years. Throw in some newer issues, such as a sinking economy and the scary state of journalism, and you’ve got an all-out crisis.

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     So, from my perspective, it stung to see the Alligator in turmoil over a position that I worked      so hard for, and I think quite a few other alumni had similar feelings. Whether they were in         management or on metro desk, almost everyone who’s been at the paper has stories about       how tough yet rewarding their experiences were.“

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Reporters from the Indiana Daily Student and a local paper were told to stop live blogging the Indiana-Wake Forest basketball game.

From the blog of a local reporter, Chris Korman:

“Early in the second half of the game, reporters from The Herald-Times and the Indiana Daily Student were asked to stop posting commentary on a joint live blog they were hosting with two other outlets.
Steve Shutt, an assistant athletic director at Wake Forest, cited an ACC rule permitting only four blog posts per half when making the request, which both publications complied with. The live blog continued to be operated by contributors from the H-T, IDS, HoosierNation.com and Inside the Hall who were not credentialed to cover the event.
After the game, Shutt said that the ACC rule on blogging was probably not in writing anywhere but followed common practice.”

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No editor, big problems for the Independent Florida Alligator at the University of Florida. Nobody has applied to be the spring semester editor-in-chief.

From the Alligator itself: “Members of the staff said at a Tuesday night meeting that over the past few years, they have become increasingly frustrated over a number of issues, with long hours and low pay at the top of the list.

…

It is unclear what will happen if no one applies. Mike Foley, UF journalism professor, said it would be tough to put out a newspaper without an editor.

“You can’t fly a plane without a pilot,” Foley said.

…

Nicole Safker, the Alligator’s photo editor, said staff members do the work of three to four people and are feeling burned out. The lack of money to pay its entire editorial staff minimum wage and buy equipment are also huge issues, Safker said.

“I feel like the job itself is still a lot of fun, but the overall experience isn’t fun anymore,” she said.”

From the South Florida Sun-Sentinel: “Staffers complain that people drop off because of long hours and hard work, resulting in their grades slipping, said Ed Barber, president emeritus of the Alligator.

“You throw in how discouraging it looks for them and the future of the industry, and the morale is really low,” he said.”

You can follow the infighting through the Twitter feeds of Editor-in-Chief Jessica DaSilva, Managing Editor Hillary Lehman, and Derek Willis.

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More than 800 students are planning a Friday protest against a controversial opinion column that ran last week in the University of Washington student newspaper, the Seattle PI reports.

“Now, there are several major problems with legalizing gay marriage,”  columnist John Fay wrote. “Once you’ve legalized gay marriage, why not polygamy, incest, bestiality or any other form of union? If the only criteria is that people love each other, then who says it’s wrong for a 70-year-old man to marry 10 underage girls?”

A column appearing alongside that one had an opposite view. The column ran with the image at right.

From a press release:

“It just infers hate and fear and ignorance toward the LGB people,” said Kyle Rapinan, a UW freshman who started the Facebook group.

“We have over 800 students and alumni as registered members of our organization. We are hoping to make it clear that this homophobia and hate for minorities is not welcome by the UW community.”

From the Facebook group:

“This group is not against the paper. This group is against language that divides and language that is used to spread bigotry and hate. We have respect for the Daily and what its intended purpose is. It’s purpose is to educate. Let’s educate.”

From Editor-in-Chief Sarah Jeglum:

“If I had to give one reason why the column ran, I would say “because it had to.” The discussion about gay marriage is far from over, and the only way we, in this democracy, can hash out that discussion is by voicing our opinions and considering all other opinions. The role of the newspaper in all of this is to be a forum for that to happen.

What’s most critical here is that people understand that The Daily is the paper of every student at the University of Washington, and every person who is part of the University of Washington community. Just like fights our country has fought over other civil rights, the only way we’ll reach a conclusion is if we talk about it and express what we really believe.

As a colleague of mine put it: “The First Amendment is number one for a reason; without it, the rights of blacks, women and other minorities would never have followed, without people writing about it and talking about it.” Free speech is an incredibly powerful right, and, luckily, it belongs to everyone.”

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The South Florida News Service will launch in January with print and digital articles produced by Florida International University j-students. They’ll provide content to the Sun Sentinel, The Miami Herald and The Palm Beach Post. “This is going to be much more than an internship,” said Allan Richards, the school’s interim associate dean. “It not only supplements what the newspaper needs - it’s a great practicum for the students.”

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The Washington Squrae News called out New York University on misleading crime statistics and got the police to redo their reports, SaferCampus.com reports.

NYU had only counted three residence halls as “on campus,” skewing the on-campus crime numbers lower.

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The student newspaper at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Ga. will not have its budget cut by student government after the two parties settled out of court, the Student Press Law Center reports.

“Gerald Weber, lead counsel for the Inkwell editors, said that the case took steps toward advancing and securing journalism at AASU,” the article states. “‘We hope this result will embolden the budding journalists at Armstrong State and preserve their independent voice,” said Weber, who accepted the case as part of the Student Press Law Center volunteer attorney network.

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College newspapers have been differently affected by the downturn in the U.S. economy, the Princetonian reports.

Excerpts from the article:

• The Columbia Spectator has seen a decline in advertising revenue of roughly 10 percent so far this year, advertising manager Dan Smullyan said.
• Daily Pennsylvanian business manager Alexander Raksin noted that the biggest decline in revenue has come this semester, “with the bottom dropping out of the economy.”
• Even in face of state budget cuts, The Daily Tar Heel is looking at its most prosperous year yet, Schwartz said, explaining that political campaigns spent a great deal of money on media in North Carolina leading up to this month’s election.
• The Daily Northwestern, for example, has begun publishing “smaller papers with fewer pages because we don’t have advertising revenue to support our editorial news hole,” Campbell explained.
• The Indiana Daily Student has revised its travel budget and is looking at its pay structure, advertising director Amy Swain said.

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A University of Minnesota student and intern at a local TV station flew off the handle with when she was fired.

From TwinCities.com: “Several newsroom employees heard Anato-Mensah shouting, yelling obscenities and threatening Prenevost, saying, “You don’t know where I’m from. I’ll mess you up, b ——-.”

Prenevost attempted to walk away from Anato-Mensah, but the intern followed her. A male employee stepped between her and Prenevost, who went into a nearby conference room. The male employee tried to get Anato-Mensah to calm down and pack up her things, but Anato-Mensah left her desk and again tried to get to the conference room, the complaint said.”

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Bryan Murley writes about innovative Web projects college papers are doing. Murley says that despite obstacles to developing Web presences, ”many college newspapers have moved forward with innovative online offerings.” He recognizes work by The Golden Gate Xpress, Inside Vandy, The Collegiate Times, The Daily at Hofsta, The Arbiter and The Daily Eastern News.

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The Independent Florida Alligator’s editor blogs that it’s harder to keep a full staff and credits it to uncertainty within the industry. “My hypothesis is that journalism students are jumping ship,” Jessica DaSilva writes. “They see the numbers, and they’re scared. I think we can’t find student writers because students may be switching majors or using journalism to prepare for law school.I plan on speaking with the college to see if enrollment data reveals any trends.”

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A group of Duke University students arose at 4 a.m. today to plaster campus with posters calling for The Chronicle’s editor-in-chief, Chelsea Allison, to resign. It was a reaction to an Oct. 10 story giving details of an unnamed student attempting suicide. This letter to the editor ran Oct. 15.

Click past the jump to see the posters:

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About 1,800 copies of The Renegade Rip are still missing after they were stolen from the newspaper’s racks Oct. 8, the paper reports. “The reason behind the removal of the student newspapers is still unclear. Some … speculated that it may have been due to some controversial stories in the issue” — one of which was a story about three student government members being sent home early from a Washington D.C. summit for consuming alcohol on the trip.

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The David Horowitz Freedom Center is frustrated that many college papers are refusing to run his ad, The UC-Santa Barbara Daily Nexus reports.

The ad, “Stop the Jihad On College Campuses,” says the Muslim Student Association recruits and supports speakers who “are calling for the execution of gays, the killing of Jews and support the terrorist jihad against America.”

The Daily Nexus, though, agreed to run the ad.

““I am glad the Daily Nexus has chosen to run this ad because we really don’t have a free press in this country anymore,” Horowitz said. “Several college papers have chosen not to run it, including the Daily Collegian at Penn State and many others. The censorship of America’s college newspapers is a major issue of our time.”

The Daily Nexus abides by a strict separation between its editorial and advertising departments in order to maintain objective reporting. Opinions expressed in ads do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Nexus staff,” the article states.

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Missouri Southern State University’s student paper, The Chart, was taken off the racks at a career fair, and editors fear the paper’s First Amendment rights were violated.

From the Springfield News-Leader: “Alexandra Nicolas, editor-in-chief of The Chart, said that a school official did not feel that a front-page story on a decline in enrollment at MSSU should be displayed at the event.

Nicolas said MSSU enrollment director Derek Skaggs issued the directive to a Chart representative who had arrived to set up a display for Wednesday night’s event. Nicolas said Skaggs “informed her that she was allowed to display anything but those papers.’”

Student affairs vice president John Messick has been told to investigate the matter.

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The legendary CNN reporter spoke at the University of Pennsylvania, then sat down with some Daily Pennsylvanian reporters.

From their story: “After sharing his tales of war-time reporting and primary-debate moderating, CNN host Anderson Cooper left Irvine Auditorium full of captivated students eager to learn more.
With the same mission in mind, The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with Cooper for a few minutes to discuss reporting, politics and his lack of culinary skills.”

Read the Q and A here.

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The first survey from CoPress, the grassroots movement to create a new college media CMS, is about to finish.

From Adam Hemphill: “Good morning everyone! This is just a gentle reminder–or a first notification for new members–that our survey closes in just under one week (at 8 p.m. EST on Friday, October 10). If you haven’t checked it out yet, please do so and/or forward the link to someone whom you think might be appropriate to answer the questions.

We’re making very good headway with this initiative and we appreciate all the help we’ve received from the community–including you–in making it possible. CoPress is a collaborative effort and it will not succeed without support and contributions from people like yourselves. Thank you.”

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Rumor has it that ESPN is launching a college sports media project, soliciting student journalists.

From The Big Lead: “According to a source, ESPN will ease into this new venture with big-name schools first (Texas, Florida State, West Virginia, USC, etc) because they have such a large fanbase, and later with smaller schools (South Florida, Wake Forest, etc). The plan, according to a source, is to challenge Rivals for that coveted college demographic, which is extremely passionate and also loved by advertisers.”

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A new post on the CoPress site debates the merits of College Publisher and Wordpress as a CMS for a college news site.

The post mostly deals with manueverability and technical knowledge needed.

“Customization is a challenge, to put it mildly. That’s why CP sites look very similar in style and structure. Unfortunately, the standard isn’t a very good one — cluttered, outdated, clunky, often slow and hardly user-friendly,” the post reads. “… However, several adventurous papers have recently turned to WordPress as an alternative. The popular open-source blogging software runs millions of blogs, including this one. It is endlessly customizable through a large number of themes and plugins offered by third parties.

Though not initially designed to be a full-fledged CMS, WordPress can be used as one with a little hacking.”

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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is being hailed for signing a law that protects newspaper advisers from retaliation for refusing to censor student work.

It is now illegal to dismiss, transfer or discipline teachers for protecting students’ free speech. Advisers can still be fired for poor performance.

The California Newspaper Publishers Association says teachers have been punished at least 12 times since 2001 because of stories or opinion pieces written by student reporters.

“While this law makes the workplace safer for teachers, the real beneficiaries are California’s students, who no longer must fear that honest reporting on school events will get their favorite teacher fired,” Student Press Law Center Executive Director Frank D. LoMonte said. “Governor Schwarzenegger and the California legislature should be commended for sending a message to school officials — in California and across the nation — that teachers are not to be used as pawns to intimidate kids into avoiding legitimate topics of discussion.”

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The man who stole 1,300 newspapers from Texas Christian University and deposited them in recylce bins around campus has turned himself in.

From the SPLC story: “Charles Beecherl, an entrepreneurial business major, told the Daily Skiff he dumped the Sept. 23 papers because it went too far in publishing a photo of a professor involved in a physical altercation with another professor.”

From the Skiff: “The student said he is an avid reader of the Skiff but did not like what the paper published, so he threw away the copies.

‘I went to his classroom, and I noticed it was obvious everyone was talking about him, and it was sad,’ Beecherl said. ‘You could tell he could tell everyone was looking at him. Basically, I did it because I felt bad about the guy.’”

About 1,300 newspapers were also stolen from Central Arkansas University on Sept. 17.

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UCLA’s Daily Bruin will have dispatches from China, Thailand and other countries through the Bridget O’Brien Scholarship.

“The intention of the fund is twofold: to give current Bruin staffers the opportunity to see the world and experience reporting from abroad and to localize international events and issues for the UCLA community,” editor-in-chief Anthony Pesce writes.

The Bruin will also print the front pages of each of its four sections in color daily because of a cheaper contract with a new printer.

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Nineteen editors of college newspapers around the country liveblogged Friday’s presidential debate for The Caucus, the New York Times political blog.

Posts started at 8:55 p.m. and continued into the wee hours of Saturday morning. The posts garnered more than 70 comments.

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About 1,300 copies of the Sept. 17 issue of The Echo were stolen, the Student Press Law Center reports.

Adviser David Keith said he thinks the theft might be due to an editorial criticizing the student government president at the University of Central Arkansas. 

From SPLC: “Keith said the paper would pursue legal action against whoever stole the papers. No suspect has been named yet.
This is not the first time The Echo was stolen. The newspaper experienced a mass theft several years ago. The stolen issue carried an article about anEcho staffer stealing thousands of dollars from the paper, though no one was ever charged or prosecuted in connection with the theft. ”

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The Vanderbilt Hustler made the controversial decision to run the 51 mugshots of Sigma Chi fraternity members arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and underage drinking.

After many critical comments, the editor posted this response.

“The presentation of the cover story was meant to be provocative and eye-catching; this reflects the extraordinary nature of the story. There was no intention of singling out individuals, forwarding an agenda against Sigma Chi or its brothers, or drawing negative or unnecessary attention to the Hustler or its editor. The editor did not intend to make a value judgment on the actions of either the Vanderbilt students or Polk County authorities involved,” it reads in part.

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From Media for Freedom: “Student journalists worldwide can register for a free, one-year membership to an online writing portfolio Web site that they can use to show off their writing and demonstrate their web savvy to potential employers.

Writer’s Residence, an online portfolio Web site for writers, is offering the memberships to university and college students with a legitimate school-provided e-mail address.

Writer’s Residence allows writers to create an online writing portfolio that hosts their writing samples, resume/CV, contact details and Web site.

Students can sign up at https://writersresidence.com/signup. When the year is up, subscriptions cost US$8.29 per month.”

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CoPress, the grassroots movement to create a new college media CMS, is surveying college newspaper online editors on their current CMS and how satisfied they are with it. Seven newspapers had submitted responses as of Tuesday.

“One of the big steps is our survey for online editors across the country, which we hope to use to gauge where other college newspapers are with their sites, what kind of talent they have and what their ideal content management system would include,” the site states.

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College Media Matters has an entertaining interview with Paras Bhayani, managing editor at the Harvard Crimson.

From the interview:

What is the coolest part about being Crimson ME?

Knowing a great deal about Harvard and being able to immediately shine a spotlight when you hear a story that needs to be told

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The editor-in-chief of The Daily Campus, Jordan Hofeditz, writes about the hardest parts about being a student newspaper editor at Southern Methodist University : choosing content, filling space and managing classwork and journalism.

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The Parthenon, the student newspaper of Marshall University, will resume its Monday publication beginning next week. They were able to fund it after parntering with a local paper.

“‘The change from a four-day to a five-day publishing week came as a result of a new publishing deal with the Herald-Dispatch,’ said Corley Dennison, dean of Marshall’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
‘The Herald-Dispatch now carries our advertising,’ Dennison said. ‘Prior to this agreement it would have been impossible to have the Monday edition.’”

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Nate Carey at The Daily Cardinal writes in today’s paper a piece calling for a sports journalism course at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and other Big 10 schools.

“…there exists no viable option available to someone interested in the vast, interesting and important field of sports journalism, which includes writing, reporting and broadcasting.

This is not a problem unique to UW-Madison, either. Every Big Ten university besides Penn State has few or no courses in the arena of sports communications.”

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As previously reported by CR,  Quinnipiac University President John L. Lahey has declared that no university employees talk to student reporters at the Quad News, an independent campus news site.

The Hartford Courant sat down with Quad News editors this week.

A group of editors at the established campus newspaper, The Chronicle, walked out last year when Lahey told them they could not post news to the Web in advance of publication, which is weekly. Lahey eventually relented, but the editors had already started the site.

From the HC column: “”Our main focus is to give students the opportunity to get the news and learn what is going on, on campus,” said Quad editor in chief Jason Braff.
We met on a park bench near campus because the university doesn’t like people like me prowling around the grounds.

Braff, a senior from New Jersey who spent the summer as an intern for the Journal News in Westchester County, told me it’s been difficult to be branded a traitor.

But, he said, “it’s worth it to me. We are standing up for the right thing.”

For this, the university has threatened to evict the chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, an officially sanctioned student group, if it keeps assisting the renegade Braff and his Quad News comrades.”

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Rikki King at Washington State University’s Daily Evergreen notes the difference in treatment for reporters at professional papers and at college papers.

“While I was at the Daily Herald, sources were almost always polite, punctual and professional. They returned my calls and wanted to help me get the information I needed. It forced me to up the ante, doing more research and writing better questions before making the calls.”

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The Howard University student newspaper, the Hilltop, is returning to publication Monday through Friday, the Washington Post reports. It is the only historically black institutions to have a daily paper. The Hilltop shut down in the spring because of budget woes. It updated its Web site infrequently during that time.

A brief history from the story: “The Hilltop was founded in 1924 by, among others, Zora Neale Hurston, who later wrote the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” From 1930 to 1991, the newspaper was published weekly, then twice weekly off and on through 2005, when it went to five days a week. It consistently has been ranked one of the best college newspapers in the country by the Princeton Review, taking the top spot twice, and can claim Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson as a former editor in chief.”

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Supporters of the SPLC can now be a fan of the center on Facebook.

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Another Seattle community college has lost its journalism program and student newspaper. Seattle Central Community College cut its journalism program and put the City Collegian out of operation, The Stranger reports. Last year, North Seattle Community College also did the same thing to its journalism program and The Polaris.

A letter from the SCCC journalism adviser to the school’s administration said “The Publications Board, chaired by Laura Mansfield, has been hostile to the Collegian all year, and this is one of two reasons for my departure. The board has remained willfully ignorant of the operation of the Collegian, the precepts of student journalism, and student press law.”

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University administrators at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln aren’t granting interviews to the student newspaper. A board editorial explaining why the administrators were no longer being quoted suggests that after a records request an associate to the chancellor instructed many to “not answer any questions or look into any inquiries or requests from journalists working at the Daily Nebraskan.”

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NYU journalism student Alana Taylor wrote a piece criticizing her “Reporting for Gen Y” course for not being advanced enough. Then:

“She told the class to read the article,” Taylor wrote at MediaShift. “Then she asked, ‘You all read Alana’s article, what did you think about it?’ There was silence for a good 30 or 45 seconds, and it was awkward and weird. And she said, ‘OK, we can all agree that there will be no more blogging or Twittering about the class.’ It was weird. It seemed like the students were scared to say anything.”

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Ashworth University, one of the country’s largest distance-learning colleges, has formed a student newspaper and posted an introductory video to the Web. It will be named the Ashworth Chronicle.

Betty Ray, one of the paper’s editors, said it is due to launch next week and will feature student, faculty and staff profiles, a “Dear Abby” section.

“We’ve just had so many ideas, but we need your participation to make this work,” Ray said as she called for staffers. “The newspaper is another milestone for Ashworth, and the more involved and more exposure that we get, the better we’re going to be.”

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The Society for Collegiate Journalists at Eastern Illinois University is sponsoring an open-mic event today in honor of the First Amendment, the Daily Eastern News reports.

“Adam Larck [the man in charge, CP assumes] said if anyone wants to yell out obscenities about the government for five minutes, then they can do it,” the story says.

James Tidwell, chairman of the EIU journalism department, told the paper he hopes the event will get students more interested in the elections and other civil rights.

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WEHCO Media is interested in developing a closer relationship with the Columbia Missourian, the Northwest Arkansas’ New Source is reporting. One possibility would involve WEHCO’s Jefferson City (Mo.) News Tribune printing the Missourian and running the business side with students still responsible for editorial content. The News Tribune already prints the Missourian.

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Quinnipiac University administrators won’t give reporters for the Quad News, an independent online student newspaper access to varsity coaches, staff or athletes, the Yale Daily News reported. The Quad News is a new venture by the former staff of The Chronicle, who walked out en masse last semester to protest letting administrators pick the editorial board. Andrew Fletcher, a junior print journalism major at Quinnipiac, writes about the decision on his blog: “As an aspiring sports journalist, I find this to be ridiculous.  I’d love to cover Quinnipiac athletics, as it is my home community.  However, my progress is being hindered by the school’s paranoia of the growing student journalist population.  The school does market itself as a great communications school, after all.

Update, 2:30 p.m. Sept. 16: The Yale Daily News also is reporting that school administrators have threatened to ban the school’s Society of Professional Journalists chapter for their support of the Quad News. And here’s the statement from Quinnipiac University’s VP of public affairs, Lynn Bushnell.

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The student government association at the University of Redlands cut the student paper’s budget from $39,000 to $10,000. The Association of Students President says that student support at the private university for the newspaper isn’t there, and also that “some students were unhappy with certain articles” the weekly newspaper published.

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The Daily Athenaeum

College Republicans at West Virginia University are starting their own newspaper because they are dislike the political coverage in The Daily Athenaeum. “When I say, ‘why do you want to start a college newspaper?’ It’s not because you want to educate people, or because we want to get our voice out there, but I feel it’s because we want specific things on campus to change,” said Deputy Field Director Kevin DeAnna.

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The Advance-Titan

The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh will fund free newspapers Monday through Friday as part of the Collegiate Readership Program managed by USA Today until Oct. 3. Oshkosh Student Association President said providing copies of USA Today, The New York Times and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel will cost about $3.25/student. “The mission of the readership program is to promote civic engagement, global awareness, and media literacy on campus by exposing students to the news in their living, learning and community spaces,” Wolf said.

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UNC professor Ryan Thornburg blogs about a panel discussion at the Online News Association conference in Washington, D.C. regarding newsroom-classroom partnerships. “The room had decided that the news biz did indeed have problems and that the academy just might be stocked with the resources needed to solve them. … If universities want to be R&D shops, then we need to start being the places where services like Pluck or Inform or Apture are born. We need to be the places to create original sites like Slate orMediaStorm or Everyblock. Why not?”

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The Independent Florida Alligator Editor Jessica DaSilva writes about her first month on the job. “When I started, I was confronted with a broken staff. My managing editors (Hilary Lehman and Ken Schwencke) and I spent our first week back in Gainesville meeting with members of every desk to assess their needs and hear what they wanted from us. … I really feel like I was just born for this job. I like managing people and brainstorming with all the brilliant people who work here.“

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The Oakwood High School newspaper in Fithian, IL, The Oakwood Times, started publishing online this year. “With this many kids in the class, daily stories keep people more involved,” journalism teacher Tim Lee said. “And I think a big part of the future of journalism is online.”

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