Top Staff of The Red & Black Student Newspaper at UGA Resigns
The editor-in-chief and her staff on Wednesday walked out of the newspaper building in Athens, Ga.
The staff of The Red & Black, the student newspaper at the University of Georgia, has resigned over issues of editorial control. The members have launched a website, Red and Dead, to get their message out. See the reaction on social media. Here's a letter from the editor-in-chief that's posted on the Red and Dead website: I, Polina Marinova, have resigned as the editor-in-chief from The Red & Black, the student newspaper covering the University of Georgia. The Red & Black’s top editors, design staff, photo staff and reporters walked out of the newspaper building this afternoon. The Red & Black has covered the University of Georgia community since 1893 and has been independent of the University since 1980. The newspaper has always been a …
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Miles Andrews
12:01 pm on Friday, August 17, 2012
I'm not a "journalist," or an aspiring journalist. If the former R&B writers want to be bloggers, then they made the right decision. It's not a good career decision, but now they can write whatever they want. News is not about writing whatever you want. No writer at any newspaper in America gets to write "whatever they want." more ›