December 31, 2007 in Censorship, Internationaljournalism
Not so much new media related, but an interesting article in today’s Washington Post about journalism students in China and “Marxist Journalism.” Read it here: For China’s Journalism Students, Censorship is a Core Concept.
March 12, 2007 in Censorship
According to the Great Firewall of China web site, our student newspaper, The Daily Mississippian online is banned.
October 16, 2006 in Censorship, Legal Issues
The University of Southern Indiana Shield appears to have been the latest student newspaper to feel the wrath of self-appointed campus censors last week:
Sometime late Wednesday night, almost every print copy of The Shield disappeared from the campus racks. We distribute 2,500 copies of the Shield around campus every Wednesday afternoon, at locations like the Rice Library, the LA, and the UC. Though this is editorial speculation of the wildest sort, the disappearance of this issue might be linked to the fact that we ran the controversial picture from the latest edition of the Aerie (see Brandon Cole’s story for more information).
The problem is that the theft of the newspapers has brought the issue more publicity than before. The campus access channel has video footage, and the campus Republicans – who are apparently upset about the photograph – hosted a scan of the image that led to the newspaper theft on their web site.
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