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May 11, 2024 | 
archive.ph | ALYSSA CHOINIERE |George Kalogerakis |Tom Scocca |Natasha Stagg
Britain does a good line in scandal. The Profumo affair, the abdication of King Edward VIII, and Prince Andrew’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein are just a few. Each one starts small, seems almost unbelievable, and then turns out to be true. Take the latest, the Post Office scandal, which was the subject of the recent hit TV show Mr Bates vs the Post Office.
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May 10, 2024 | 
airmail.news | ALYSSA CHOINIERE
“Red? Yellow? Green?” a student asks me at the entrance to the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. The colors categorize students by the level of risk they are willing to take, red being the highest. “J-school,” I say, identifying myself as a Columbia Journalism School student.
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May 10, 2024 | 
airmail.news | ALYSSA CHOINIERE |Stuart Heritage |John Arlidge |Terry McDonell
A VERY BRITISH SCANDAL THE NEW COLLEGE TRY CLUB WARS MOTHER’S DAY ELEGY DEUS SEX MACHINA NEPO-LEONIC COMPLEX THE PRICE IS RIGHT-WING BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE! Issue No. 252 The View from Here Scenes from the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University Oedipus Flex Elizabeth Hurley’s erotic thriller—written and directed by her 22-year-old son—is one for the Freudians A Conspiracy of One When high-profile members of the British Establishment—including a former prime minister—were accused...
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May 4, 2024 | 
wsj.com | ALYSSA CHOINIERE
By Alyssa ChoiniereMay 4, 2024 11:00 am ETListen to article(1 minute)Ted Schmiedeler, the 20-year-old station manager of Columbia University’s WKCR student radio, was trying to get a protester at occupied Hamilton Hall to talk to him. The history major had been up for about 35 hours, reporting live on the air, tracking down battery packs for his team and encouraging them to rest. Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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May 2, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Jimmy Vielkind |Joseph Pisani |ALYSSA CHOINIERE |Erin Ailworth
NEW YORK—Columbia University’s graduation is still two weeks off, but on Wednesday Suleyman Ahmed donned his cap and gown and walked to the school’s gates with a cardboard sign that read “cops off campus.”Ahmed hadn’t participated in any of the demonstrations that have rocked the university over the past few weeks. But after the school asked the New York Police Department to clear out protesters and keep a steady presence on campus through commencement, he couldn’t concentrate on cramming.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Erin Ailworth |ALYSSA CHOINIERE |Douglas Belkin
NEW YORK—Columbia University began suspending students in a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus who remained past a fresh deadline, as pressure mounted on the school’s president. The New York City university had asked students to voluntarily disband the encampment by 2 p.m. ET Monday or they would be suspended and not allowed to finish the semester. Many tents remained in place Monday after the deadline had passed.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Erin Ailworth |ALYSSA CHOINIERE |Joseph Pisani
After months of demonstrations against the war in Gaza, the unrest reached a boiling point in the final week of classes at Columbia University. WSJ’s Erin Ailworth visited the school’s tent encampment to hear from students. Photo: Sarah Blesener for The Wall Street JournalApril 26, 2024 9:00 pm ETYour browser does not support the audio tag. 00:00 / 02:06Explore Audio CenterThis article is in your queue.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Erin Ailworth |ALYSSA CHOINIERE |Jon Kamp
The University of Southern California canceled its main commencement ceremony as universities around the U.S. cracked down on intensifying pro-Palestinian protests. USC officials cited the time required to put in place new security measures for the 65,000-person event planned for May. Dozens of people were arrested at the Los Angeles campus Wednesday on suspicion of trespassing. The school will hold other traditional commencement ceremonies, including individual school events.
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Sep 6, 2023 | 
editorandpublisher.com | ALYSSA CHOINIERE
A line of code may be all that is needed to open the door for readers with disabilities to access digital journalism. Patrick Merlihan, who runs digital strategy for the Woolwich Observer in Elmira, Ontario, thought he was about to tackle a monumental task in a quest to make the website fully accessible for the 15,000-circulation newspaper in September 2021. “I thought I was going to have a lot of challenges to make our site accessible, and then it was, like, 10 minutes,” he said.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
editorandpublisher.com | ALYSSA CHOINIERE
Posted Friday, August 25, 2023 12:00 am Journalism is an important defense against disinformation, and it has to not only go on the defense, it has to go on the offense. The flip side to disinformation is quality journalism. There has to be good news to fill those gaps, not just to combat disinformation but to fill that truth gap.” The International Center for Journalists empowers journalists to follow the money behind disinformation in the Americas. “I can’t think of a more critical issue...
