PCP: Maybe you can put a price on education
President Obama’s inability to affect a positive change in our economy is having a devastating effect on most universities: their budgets, their faculty, and particularly their graduates.
View ArticleA tool for the twits
Collegian columnist Chelsea Whitton believes that Twitter use for academics provides an information overload, while tuition-paying students should be focused on their courses instead.
View ArticlePulitzer-winning Weingarten speaks at UMass to journalism students
Gene Weingarten, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, spoke to an audience of University of Massachusetts students and faculty about his life and forty year career in journalism yesterday in the Cape...
View ArticleAlumni Peter Thomson lectures on environmental reporting
UMass Alumni Peter Thomson talked with senior Kimya Hedayat-Zadeh about the challenges and techniques of environmental reporting yesterday.
View ArticleJournalists discuss covering controversy at Penn State
In a panel discussion on Tuesday night at Penn State, renowned journalists met to discuss covering the controversy behind the sexual abuse case of retired Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky.
View ArticleCampus political lackluster
Collegian columnist Josh Steinberg remarks on his dissatisfaction with the lacking political awareness on campus as the presidential elections near.
View ArticleNPR editors talks about changing media
Mark Stencel, the managing editor for digital news at National Public Radio, discusses the new pace of journalism and how it can lead to mistakes.
View ArticleNew Journalism Chair Kathy Roberts Forde finds home at UMass
UMass welcomes a new chair to the journalism program in Kathy Roberts Forde.
View ArticleRemembering David Carr and Bob Simon, two respected journalists
Isaac Simon reflects on the lives of journalists David Carr and Bob Simon, who both recently died.
View ArticleThe next journalist under fire
Isaac Simon discusses the recent accusations of false claims by Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly and suggests his fate may be similar to that of Brian Williams.
View ArticleKathy Forde’s Cole Lecture focuses on the role of journalism in racial justice
The UMass professor detailed how journalism’s objectivity and neutrality may not be the most useful tool.
View ArticleUMass graduate Melissa Click faces assault charge following incident at...
Click, 45, was seen on camera asking for muscle to remove a student journalist from a protest on the University of Missouri’s campus.
View ArticleUMass alumnus speaks on relationship between journalism and public relations
University of Massachusetts alumnus Larry Carpman spoke to a group of students and faculty Monday about the “very thin” line between journalism and public relations.
View ArticleThank you for everything
Collegian Editor in Chief Mark Chiarelli closes out his time at UMass by thanking the Collegian for giving him a chance, even when he initially messed it up.
View ArticleA complicated love affair
Former Web Managing Editor Kristin LaFratta discusses how she made her match with the Daily Collegian.
View ArticleFormer editor-in-chief of Salon talked on the effects of gerrymandering
David Daley argued that the United States is living in the “steroid era” of gerrymandering.
View ArticleWe don’t have to like our politicians
Evan Gaudette advocates that we should not just choose the politicians that charm us.
View ArticleDonald Trump is gutting journalism with his Twitter
CNN’s differences from BuzzFeed in reporting the alleged dossier of President Trump reveal hypocrisy of credibility.
View ArticleFreelance journalist Reese Erlich gives talk on future of Syrian Civil War
Erlich discussed his coverage of the war-torn region, giving insight into the different sides of the conflict.
View ArticleEditorial: Journalism in the age of Trump
How can journalists ensure that the truth is reported responsibly in the future?
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