{"id":7594,"date":"2026-10-15T10:55:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T10:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/?p=7594"},"modified":"2026-10-15T12:00:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T12:00:55","slug":"student-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/2026\/10\/15\/student-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Student journalists and professionalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fall of 2026<\/strong> has seen two major instances of student journalists defending the First Amendment and reflecting high professional standards.<\/p>\n

\u2022 They won’t, we will<\/a><\/strong> — On Sept. 21, editors at the Cornell Daily Sun printed the names of seven Cornell University students who had been named in a civil lawsuit in connection with a brutal sexual assault.<\/p>\n

\u00a0We ask the questions the University has left unanswered. If Cornell follows the law, then we should have access to a public deposition issued from the school, the Title IX investigation opened in January 2025 and how it concluded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Daily Sun had consistently covered controversy over the university’s handling of sexual assault, for example, in this April 2026 news article.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Why am I not allowed to record?<\/a><\/strong> — On Oct. 13, Kat Murphy, a University of Maryland student, refused to stop recording after being threatened by Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md).\u00a0 During an off-the-rails press conference, Harris said:\u00a0 “Take her camera. You’re going to take her camera. She is violating the law. In fact, get an officer in here. She’s violating the law on two-party, two-party recording,” Harris stammered. “We need an officer.”<\/p>\n

(Ironically, Harris had just come from a debate in which he criticized the audience for not appreciating the First Amendment when some laughed at him for saying that Democrats caused the recent spike in the price of fuel because of environmental regulations.).<\/p>\n