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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 [...]

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.

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.
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The Daily Pennsylvanian
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 [...]

The Big Lead
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 [...]

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 [...]

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 Daily Nebraskan
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 [...]

Yale Daily News
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 [...]