When a university tells its student journalists to remove content, this not only compromises the public’s right to know but shortchanges the students’ educational experience.
Administrators did just that at Tarleton State University in August, and it merits a Zoom panel at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 6.
Panelists are: Frank LoMonte, director of the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information at the University of Florida and past executive director of the Student Press Law Center; Chris Whitley, president of College Media Association and student publications director at Tarrant County College; Dan Malone, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former Tarleton State newsroom adviser; and Kathryn Jones, former TSU faculty member and SPJ Region 8 coordinator.
Jake Batsell, the William O’Neil Chair in Business Journalism at SMU, will moderate. Representatives from Texan News Service and Tarleton State University have been invited.
To register:
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89662260463?pwd=TXM5RTJkd25laXFHb08zNkxjWEN2UT09