By Monica Cruz
Source: The Daily O’ Collegian
Spanish newspaper El Pais awards the Pulitzer Prize equivalent for Spanish speaking journalists. The Ortega and Gasset prize in the digital category was awarded to independent blogger Yoani Sanchez. Her merit goes beyond good writing and the blog’s popularity, which registered 1.2 million hits in February. (Continue reading)
To read the winning blog click here
Has the newspaper industry turned its back on aspiring young journalists?
By Ken Krayeske
published in the Poynter Institute webpage on June 2006
“I didn’t realize I would end up as a journalist,” Wolinsky said. “But it absolutely contributed to my development as a professional. You need it. It gives you a real-life version of a newsroom.” (Continue reading)
Enter the webpage and click on “2008″
Source:Concor Monitor
By Mike Pride
The family of Carolynne St. Pierre faced the ultimate grief. Despite her courage, a rare cancer was killing a mother and wife long before her time. Yet she and her husband Rich invited photographer Preston Gannaway and reporter Chelsea Conaboy to chronicle Carolynne’s death and its impact on their family. (Continue reading)
Source: ACLU Southern California
A lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Southern California on behalf of student journalists in Bakersfield fighting to have their stories about gay students at their high school published in the school’s newspaper moved to deposition stage in late August. (Continued)
Source: Student Press Law Center
OKLAHOMA — A copy editor at Oklahoma State University’s student paper is vowing to fight an attempt by the journalism department’s director to remove her from the school’s publications board. (Continue Reading)
Source: The A&T Register
By Shauntel Lowe (Black college wire)
A Howard University policy board decided that the print edition of the student newspaper will not be published for the rest of the school year, but the paper will continue publishing online as the staff tries to dig itself out of a financial crisis. (Continued)
Source: The Charlatan newspaper
by Laura Di Mascio
The University of Ottawa Engineering Students’ Society (ESS) may find itself without funding after its members published an article that critics said incites violence against women, and has raised the ire of students and university officials.
