Hi, everyone! Due to a death in the family (expected, but still sad), I’ve been traveling and living in that weird space we've all experienced where the world is a little dimmer from loss and a little brighter from reconnections.

Thanks for your patience. Here’s a quick headline roundup. I hope to be back to full speed with case studies, lesson plans and assignments on Sunday.

Hug your people if you can!

HEADLINES

A security guide for students, finding TikTok success doing news, and two notable podcasts

A first-person piece in The New Yorker about a former American student journalist who was detained and deported when he tried to re-enter our country. 

Surveillance self-defense: The Electronic Frontier Foundation issued a security guide for student journalists. A great example: how to use Signal.

A new report says that social media is now a more popular news source than TV. 

Along those lines … CJR talked to The News Girl, a local TV journalist who found it more effective to deliver the news on TikTok than the anchor desk. Good stuff here for your students in terms of career development and social media news delivery.  

If you had told me 20 years ago that The Onion would become the voice of the nation, I would have said, “Sounds about right.” Here’s a story about their recent full-page ad in The New York Times.

WYNC’s On the Media talked to the student journalist who was fired from his editor-in-chief post at the University of Texas at Dallas before he started up an alternative publication.

I reported this was happening but I’m just now seeing this Question Everything podcast from May: an interview with Tufts student journalists, First Amendment attorneys and former Washington Post editor Marty Baron, recorded on campus shortly after the arrest of Rümeysa Öztürk.

Terry Moran wasn’t drunk tweeting and he doesn’t regret his words. (I built a classroom-ready ethics case study about this.)

ON THE HORIZON

A few things worth noting before the fall semester

The State Department wants to see your social media before you can come study in America.

• State Dept. restarts student visa interviews with tougher social media rules (Washington Post)

• US resumes visas for foreign students but demands access to social media accounts (AP)

• U.S. to Review Social Media Posts of Student and Scholar Visa Applicants (New York Times)

State by state: Texas lawmakers limit campus protest while the DOJ wants to eliminate in-state tuition for non-citizens in Kentucky.

• Texas Governor Signs Bill to Limit Expressive Activity on Campuses (Inside Higher Ed)

• Undocumented students rethink their college dreams after Texas cuts their access to cheaper tuition (Open Campus)

• DOJ Targets In-State Tuition for Noncitizens in Kentucky as Texas Students Fight Back (Inside Higher Ed)

For the first time, colleges are going to be allowed to pay athletes directly. 

• Judge Approves Landmark Settlement Changing the Way College Sports Are Run (Chronicle of Higher Education)

• With $2.7 billion settlement approved, college sports' big money era is officially here (NPR)

• Pay for college athletes is about to get beefier for some, leaner for others (Open Campus)

But how will schools afford it? (A great question/story assignment for fall!)

• Florida officials let public universities free up millions to pay student-athletes (AP)

• Louisiana is poised to hike its sports betting tax to help colleges pay their athletes (AP)

TEACHING HELP

Reminder: I built you some assignments, lesson plans and ethics case studies.

I’m building up my library of resources for the fall, and I’d love to get your feedback on them before the start of the semester.

• An ethics case study with discussion questions on the Terry Moran “firing.”

• A lesson plan on the San Francisco Chronicle’s experience of being accused of faking images.

• An assignment you can hand out to your students in the fall about the state of fake IDs on your campus.

IN THE LOOP

Take students to Minnesota, win some SPLC cash

✈️ Attend ACP’s College Media Mega Workshop in July in Minneapolis.

⚖️  The Student Press Law Center is offering cash prizes for courageous student journalism and public records reporting. Apply by June 30.

FEEDBACK

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Book a free consultation with me to see how I can help you, your department or your students. Or you can email me at [email protected] anytime. 

Have a great week!