One week after Quinnipiac University administrators threatened to ban the school chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists from campus for supporting the independent online student newspaper, the Quad News, administrators have finally broken their silence.
HAMDEN – In the latest twist in the ongoing battle between Quinnipiac University administrators and student journalists, university officials have restricted the editorial content of an independent online student newspaper by denying reporters access to all varsity coaches, staff and athletes, the News learned Wednesday.
In a move that has some First Amendment experts scratching their heads, Quinnipiac University administrators have threatened to ban the school’s chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists from campus for its support of an independent online student newspaper
Nearly two years after student editors at the Quinnipiac Chronicle began a battle with the university’s administration to publish breaking news online, the paper finally has the right to do just that. But they gave up something in return: any chance at independence.
Although Quinnipiac Chronicle staff members cut all ties from the print edition last week, university administrators are moving full steam ahead with plans to change the structure of the student newspaper.
After a two-year tug of war with administrators, Quinnipiac Chronicle editors are taking matters into their own hands.
The New York Stock Exchange announced Friday that it will suspend trading of the Journal Register Company, parent corporation of the New Haven Register, on Wednesday because of its “abnormally low” stock price.
It was early September, 1968. A tall, lanky junior wandered into 202 York St., home of the Yale Daily News, holding a handful of hand-drawn comics — a series about the football team called “Bull Tales.”
At $0.75, a copy of The New Haven Register now costs more than the common share price of its parent corporation, the Journal Register Company, which dropped to $0.22 on Monday.
It is impossible for journalists to be completely objective, according to Katrina vanden Heuvel, at least.
The Journal Register Company, the parent corporation that owns The New Haven Register, has retained investment bank Lazard to assist in a possible restructuring of the company, The New York Times reported Saturday
It is important for lawyers and journalists to work together in breaking controversial stories, panelists asserted at a Law School discussion Tuesday afternoon that brought together prominent journalists and lawyers from ABC News and The Washington Post.
