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A Howard University policy board decided that the print edition of the student newspaper will not be published for the rest of the school year, but the paper will continue publishing online as the staff tries to dig itself out of a financial crisis.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 Korean Times
By Park Si-soo
A group of professors opposing President Lee Myung-bak’s cross-country canal project condemned the government for putting what they call clandestine censorship on anti-canal campaigners. (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.
Source: Reporters without Borders
Afghan journalist Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi gave a news conference today at Reporters Without Borders headquarters in Paris about the plight of his brother, Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, a fellow journalist who is under sentence of death in Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan. (Continued)
By Robert Wang
Source: GateHouse News Service, Arizona Silver Belt
CANTON, Ohio- Prompting charges of censorship, Malone College this week removed hundreds of copies of its student newspaper from campus because that edition had a photo of naked male students. (Continued)
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By Shauntel Lowe
Source: Black College Wire
Drew Costley, a Howard senior and The Hilltop’s top editor for the 2007-08 academic year, said the action was taken because of more than $48,000 in outstanding printing costs. He also said $20,000 is missing from the paper’s account. Costley was reached in New Orleans where he was participating in alternative spring break to help Hurricane Katrina victims. (Continued)
The Herald will launch the 12th annual Scottish Student Press Awards.
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BEIJING (AP) — Internet users in China were blocked from seeing YouTube.com on Sunday after dozens of videos about protests in Tibet appeared on the popular American video Web site. (Continued)
