While the national press debates President Trump’s DEI initiatives at colleges and universities across the country, college newspapers find themselves at the forefront during a tumultuous time. The Student Press Law Center issued a special media alert April 4 for student media covering these events. “At this moment, it is essential to hear from those…
A stickler for straight-forward writing and AP style, Linda Lockhart did not pass away or transition. She died on May 4, 2025 of complications associated with cancer. She was 72. Lockhart worked in more than half a dozen newsrooms in the Midwest, from St. Louis to St. Paul to Madison to Milwaukee and back to…
The number of full-time statehouse reporters who cover capital cities has declined 34% since 2014. To fill this gap, college students are providing a substantial amount of statehouse coverage, including in Illinois and Missouri. There are now 34 university- or college-led statehouse reporting initiatives in 30 states across the country, according to the University of…
In an age of digital media, podcasts and streaming, the good-old-days of community radio seem to be at an end – not with a bang or even a whimper. It’s more about lawyers conversing in bankruptcy court. In St. Louis, KDHX is deep in the red and close to pulling the plug. That’s not the…
In late January, the University of Texas at Dallas removed its newspaper stands in an effort to kill The Mercury, the university’s student newspaper following protracted attempts to attack the newspaper’s editorial line by removing its editor-in-chief, Gregorio Olivares Gutierrez. The Mercury is back, in a sense. It’s now known as The Retrograde. Gutierrez talked…