newspaper chain may run collage newspaper (up is down, in is out)

[donsu]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=90&e=3&u=/ep/20050426/en_bpiep/letfreedomreignthenewpaperchaincouldrunnccollegepaper


Let Freedom Reign? The Newpaper Chain Could Run N.C. College Paper


There are always debates about oversight and prior review at college newspapers, but the debate is getting much more interesting in New Bern, N.C., where a division of Freedom Communications could take over as the publisher of a college paper.

After editors at The Campus Communicator at Craven Community College in New Bern made two controversial decisions in six months, the school's administration tried to institute a policy that would grant it the right to review and reject articles prior to the monthly paper's publication.

That policy, which has not -- and may never -- go into effect, was unacceptable to student editors, who argued that they should not lose autonomy. After negotiations between editors and administrators, a compromise was proposed: the Communicator, which is owned by the students, would be licensed to Freedom ENC Communications, which publishes a local daily. Freedom would act as publisher of the paper and manage ad sales and production, college spokesman Sandy Wall said.

Or maybe not. The students are reluctant to go along with this deal, likening it to merely getting a different censor. And Freedom officials haven't reached the conclusion that it's a viable business proposition.

"We don't have a journalism program here at Craven Community College, and we thought this would be a way for our students to learn journalism from professional journalists," Wall, who said he was a reporter for more than 15 years, told E&P.
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seeing as how this is New Bern, N.C. it would be wise to find out who is behind this. name names.

[msmcghee]

1. I hear they're also planning . .

. . a Macrame newsletter. B-)