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. In a memo posted Friday on...
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 an e-mail provided to the News by a Quad...
HAMDEN — 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, the News has learned. In a letter sent Monday to SPJ President Jaclyn Hirsch — who is also...
HAMDEN — 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. And after tensions between the editors and administrators came to a head, a mass exodus of...
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. In line with a proposal approved by Quinnipiac President John Lahey to change the Chronicle editorial structure, administrators have employed Quinnipiac Business...
After a two-year tug of war with administrators, Quinnipiac Chronicle editors are taking matters into their own hands — and considering severing ties with the school permanently. According to editor accounts, about 20 members of the newspaper met Wednesday night to begin planning for the possible creation an independent online newspaper. The discussion came on the...
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. The decision, which comes during continued speculation about impending bankruptcy for the Journal Register, followed the Thursday’s news that Moody’s...
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.” Nervously, the young man greeted Executive Editor Reed Hundt ’69 LAW ’74. After rifling through the first three or four comic strips, Hundt shrugged. He was...
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. The Journal Register is in trouble because of a number of factors, including in part a flagging economy and a newspaper industry become increasingly centered in the Internet, that are adversely...
It is impossible for journalists to be completely objective, according to Katrina vanden Heuvel, at least. Vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, a magazine which describes itself as “the flagship of the left,” addressed the Yale Political Union on Monday night to discuss the role of opinion in American media. She spoke in support of the resolution “The...
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. Financial difficulties at the Journal Register may soon force the company to be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange if its share price does not rebound...
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. The discussion, entitled “Covering Scandals,” analyzed the process of breaking high-profile stories from the...
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