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ERIC Number: EJ764750
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Aug-10
Pages: 4
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-1557-5411
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Will They Overcome?
Stewart, Pearl
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, v23 n13 p18-21 Aug 2006
If "The Meter" at Tennessee State University and "The Hilltop" at Howard University are indicators, student newspapers at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have taken giant strides since 2000, when "Black Issues In Higher Education" found many Black campus papers struggling and inadequate. "All the News Doesn't Make It to Print" (Feb. 17, 2000) described the woeful state of HBCU student publications: administrative problems, a lack of resources, limited technology and little or no training of students and advisers. Many of the papers were published only two or three times a year, and only a handful were available online. Today, "The Hilltop" is published five days a week. "The Meter," which was published every two weeks in 2000, later became weekly and plans to move to a twice-a-week publication this fall. There are other signs of progress. Florida A&M University's student paper, "The Famuan," has gone from weekly to three times a week during the last three years. Southern University's "Southern Digest" is published twice a week and is beginning a magazine this fall. All of these school papers have active Web sites that are updated as news breaks on their campuses, preparing the student journalists for the newsrooms they will work in as professionals. While more HBCU newspapers are publishing regularly and going online, the issue of censorship and control appears to be intensifying, even at many public HBCUs, where the First Amendment covers student media. This article discusses the continuing struggle for press freedom at HBCUs.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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