While the news industry struggles, college students are supplying some memorable journalism

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NEW YORK (AP) — Within the past year, young journalists have produced investigations that led to the resignation of Stanford University's president, the...

NEW YORK — Within the past year, young journalists have produced investigations that led to the resignation of Stanford University's president, the firing of Northwestern University's football coach, and a school shooting graphic so striking that it led a veteran newsman to say, “I've never seen a better front page.

Baker said he was harassed — including angry, middle-of-the-night phone calls — although, incredibly, it wasn't his first time. He said he was threatened even before college because he's the son of two prominent journalists,Like most of her fellow University of North Carolina students, Emmy Martin spent a few terrifying hours in lockdown on Aug. 28 after a graduate studentin a campus building and was on the loose before being apprehended.

Even President Joe Biden later commented on the cover, a dramatic glimpse into the minds of Generation Lockdown. “I've never seen a better front page,” veteran editor and Columbia Journalism School professor“We didn't create the cover to make a national statement,” Martin said. “We wanted to make a historical record of how everyone on the UNC campus felt that day.”

“We have some very honest conversations with parents,” Reis said. “Even if their son or daughter wants to go into journalism they are concerned that it's a dying industry. I tell them it's the opposite. It's a thriving industry.”Almost in spite of the industry's troubles, Whitaker said there's been a strong interest in journalism schools over the past several years; many young people saw Trump-era attacks on the profession as a call to action.

With local news outlets suffering, college newspapers are also covering more than campuses. The Daily Tar Heel covers the surrounding town of Chapel Hill, too. The Columbia Daily Spectator reports on the Manhattan neighborhoods of Morningside Heights, West Harlem and the Upper West Side. The University of Texas at Austin supplies students to cover state government for news outlets across Texas.

Undecided voters prefer Rishi Sunak to “weak” Sir Keir Starmer – but are still more inclined to vote Labour at the next general election, a focus group has suggested.MONTREAL — Workers represented by Unifor at the St. Lawrence Seaway Corp. have voted 99 per cent in favour of a strike if they are not able to reach a new contract. The union has set a deadline of Oct. 21 to reach an agreement.

 

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