Melissa Click’s name is now infamous after she tried to get others to “muscle” a student reporter from a protest gathering at the University of Missouri. The university received over 1,000 emails over the viral…
Topic: journalism
Principal Threatened to Cancel Journalism at School after Article on New Bell Schedule
Uh, this is taking things too far. Upset over an article on the school’s new bell schedule? Okay.
Missouri Lawmaker Proposes Bill to Protect Student Journalists
This is, no doubt, a response to Melissa Click’s attempt to kick out a student journalist from protests at the University of Missouri.
No, Student Activists, ‘Safe Space’ doesn’t mean Freedom From the Press
Student journalists were prevented from covering the ‘safe space’ at Loyola University Chicago.
Melissa Click faces Assault and Title IX Charges after Confrontation with Student Journalist
Oh, this isn’t good for Melissa Click, the assistant professor of mass media at Mizzou who tried to get muscle to push out a student journalist for doing his job.
Mizzou Communications Professor Tries to Forcibly Remove Student Reporter from Public Area
Melissa Click, who is an assistant professor of mass media at the University of Missouri, tried to get other students to forcibly remove a student reporter out of the protester’s camp area in the public quad…
Politico Reporter of the Ben Carson Scoop Debacle has History of Anti-GOP Behavior
Good piece at the College Fix: Kyle Cheney, the author of the recent (stealthily edited) Politico article on Ben Carson’s recollections about West Point, was once an editor of Boston University’s The Daily Free Press….
Charges of Racial Profiling of Texas Professor Debunked after Dashcam Footage Released
The video speaks for itself, doesn’t it? A Texas journalism professor’s explosive charge that police hassled her for “walking while black,” a claim lodged in a guest column in the state’s biggest newspaper, doesn’t square…
History Lesson on the Death Penalty
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia notes that support for the death penalty has been part of Christian and Catholic tradition in the Old and New Testaments. What’s more, it was morally accepted when the U.S….
College Journalists Hold a Boot Camp for Free Speech and Training
College Fix reported: National journalism organizations established “The J-Team” last month to train student journalists against suppression attempts by college administrations. The move follows Muscatine Community College’s crackdown on The Calumet, which led the editors…