You wake up to a message from your university's emergency alert system telling you there was an attempted sexual assault on campus overnight. It's a message no student wants to receive because of the questions and emotions that come with such an alert. For you, a student journalist, there is another layer of emotion and an adrenaline rush that … [Read more...]
Lessons from #EditorTherapy on Transparency
Student journalists want to be taken seriously and you want people to view your publications as credible. But the public is skeptical about what they hear and see from all news media, and news organizations’ credibility has continued to erode during the last decade. This leads us to question what journalists can do to be viewed as deliverers … [Read more...]
February #EditorTherapy Schedule
I've been a little lax with the #EditorTherapy schedule since the beginning of the year, mostly because there's just been so much going on. We've had an abundance of breaking news on college campuses of the level that it's also receiving national news coverage. That's a complex way of saying that student media have covered some huge stories in … [Read more...]
What Student Journalists Want for Christmas
There is something magical about being asked what you want for Christmas. It’s like everything you’ve ever needed or wanted flies immediately out of your brain and you’re left shrugging your shoulders and muttering "I don't know." This answer infuriates my mother. She always says "I don't know where to buy 'I don't know.'" It's just difficult … [Read more...]
Purdue Photographer Detention: Censorship or Caution?
A case of police caution or a censorship attempt? That's the question I'm pondering in relation to a Purdue Exponent photo editor who police detained for questioning earlier this week. Michael Takeda was detained and his equipment confiscated after he attempted to photograph the building where a campus shooting occurred earlier in the … [Read more...]
Attorney seals photos seized from student newspaper
A commonwealth attorney's office sealed 926 images police seized from a student newspaper's newsroom, according to an April 20 article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The images are from James Madison University's student newspaper, The Breeze. They depict Springfest, an annual party hosted April 10. About 8,000 people attended the party, where a … [Read more...]