UC walkouts pose dilemma for journalists
Cynthia Gorney captures the dilemma of being a journalist embedded on campus in the midst of the UC walkout today in a post for Oakland North:
As journalists who are also UC students and teachers, we wrestled with the appropriate reaction to today’s events. Some wanted to join the walkout. Some did not. As our publication is supported by UC Berkeley, along with a grant from the Ford Foundation, we all agreed that it would be odd for our site to pretend nothing unusual is underway today at the campus that plays such a major role in East Bay life–but that we have a direct conflict of interest in trying to report on the walkout in any conventional way.
It looks like there will be updates throughout the day on the hyperlocal site, which is run by students and teachers at Berkeley’s Journalism School. So worth checking back in.
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And thus goes the rationale behind why college news organizations ought to be developing significant revenue streams so that they can move toward independence from the University.