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Explore the contemporary issues and diversity of U.S. student media, covering topics such as official campus sponsorship, censorship, new media, and balancing educational opportunities with independent, student-driven content.
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The College Press and English Higher Education Motivating Students With Media
The college press: Four factors in flux (or, some contemporary issues that show the diversity of U.S. student media)
14 Ed. Law Rep. 75, 9 Media L. Rep. 2352 Catherine M. STANLEY, Jeffrey A. Goldberg, Michael Douglas, and Christopher Ison, each individually and as Editors of The Minnesota Daily, The Minnesota Daily, and The Board of Student Publications, Appellants,v.C. Peter MAGRATH, individually and as President of the University of Minnesota, and Charles H. Casey, William B. Dosland, Erwin L. Goldfine, Lauris D. Krenik, Robert Latz,David M. Lebedoff, Charles F. McGuiggan, Wenda Moore, Lloyd H. Peterson, Mary T. Schertler, Neil C. Sherburne, Michael W. Unger, Verne Long, Willis Drake, and David Roe, each individually and as a member of the Board of Regents of theUniversity of Minnesota, Appellees. No. 83-1058. United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. Submitted June 14, 1983. Decided Oct. 11, 1983. 2. CENSORSHIP VERSUS OFFENSIVE OR IRRESPONSIBLE CONTENT
There’s going to be something we’re going to miss in journalism that will be very regrettable. I hope the young people who have developed Facebook and Google will say, ‘We need to fix the information system and we need to get information to people that’s well-researched and investigated.’ -- Bob Woodward, U.S. reporter of Watergate scandal 3. NEW MEDIA VERSUS OLD GATEKEEPERS
Student newspapers are the training ground for future editors and journalists. There is no way to replace the hands-on experience a young writer gets conceiving a story, doing research, tracking down interviews, writing on a deadline, and having his/her work edited… This experience prepared me for my future jobs much more than most of my classes. -- Kathryn Kysar, poet and professor, Minneapolis 4. BALANCING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES WITH INDEPENDENT, STUDENT-DRIVEN CONTENT
Part II: Why motivate students with media? “Taiwan's BBS is certainly a different animal, but although it may be a good way to discuss any and all controversial subjects of the day, its authors don't really have the responsibility to get all the facts right that student journalists have.” Trista DiGenova-Chang, Taipei journalist familiar with many European universities
1. MEDIA PRODUCTION MOTIVATES STUDENTS TO LEARN AND USE FOREIGN LANGUAGES
I've found over the years that the brightest, most thoughtful, engaged, patriotic young employees that I've ever hired were active in high school and college journalism. -- Lucy Dalglish, attorney and reporter 3. STUDENT WRITERS LEARN POLITICAL SKILLS FOR PUBLIC DISCOURSE AND DEBATE
4. STUDENT MEDIA PUT UNIVERSITIES, ADVISORS AND STUDENTS IN TOUCH WITH A WORLD OF LEARNING RESOURCES
5. STUDENT NEWSPAPER READERS SHARE AN IMAGINED COMMUNITY AND GAIN ACCESS TO THEIR UNIVERSITY’S HISTORY
“Reading a newspaper is like reading a novel whose author has abandoned any thought of a coherent plot.” -- Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities