EDITORIAL: Student newsrooms must remain independent. Full stop.
Sam Rosenstiel, News Editor
April 25, 2018
Today we stand united with the nation’s student journalists and independent student reporting to #SaveStudentNewsrooms.
OPINION: The Northerner stands with the College Heights Herald
Mackenzie Manley, Editor-in-Chief
December 1, 2017
In journalism school, we’re told that we’re the “voice for the voiceless,” and “the watchdogs” of society. So, I pose a question: If this is what we’re taught, why are more and more educational institutions attempting to stifle what we’re meant to do? Without student newspapers, the foundations of free sp...
EDITORIAL: A day I’ll never forget
Matt Sexton, Managing Editor
September 12, 2016
It was a morning like so many before outside the studios of Southwest Ohio Broadcasting in Wilmington, Ohio. I stood on the porch of our building, which looked more like a house than a professional radio studio. I felt the cool morning air as I inhaled the second-hand smoke of my friend and colleague...
EDITORIAL: We stand with UK’s Kentucky Kernel
Matt Sexton, Managing Editor
September 2, 2016
The University of Kentucky, the largest public university in the Commonwealth, filed a lawsuit Wednesday against its own student newspaper. UK filed a lawsuit against its own students. Students who are encouraged to get an education and learn real-world experience working for the Kentucky Kernel, the ind...