US EditionIU Fires Student Newspaper Adviser over Print Edition
Indiana University ended the Indiana Daily Student print edition after firing its media director, citing financial deficits despite recent profits of $11,000 over three editions this semester.
- On Wednesday, Indiana University Bloomington ordered the Indiana Daily Student to end all print publication less than 24 hours after firing Jim Rodenbush, director of student media, canceling the Oct. 16 edition.
- Media School officials argued the change was a business shift toward digital-first publishing to address financial challenges, reducing print frequency to seven issues per semester under the Student Media Plan adopted last year.
- Editors Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller warned the move will cost IDS advertisers and undercut fall printing, noting three print editions already generated $11,000 in profit.
- University spokespeople said the move is about distribution, not editorial interference, and Michael Arnolt, director of Indiana Public Media, confirmed no print editions for the foreseeable future.
- Legal experts and student journalists called the move censorship and raised legal alarms as Student Press Law Center senior legal counsel labeled it blatant censorship, while Suzannah Evans Comfort emphasized editorial independence amid IDS’s financial struggles and a rejected student board vote in June.
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Indiana University fires director amid student paper censorship controversy
Indiana University Bloomington terminated its director of student media, Jim Rodenbush, who oversaw the university’s print newspaper, The Indiana Daily Student, according to a letter from the editors published on the paper’s website. The decision comes after increasing conflict between the university administration and the student newspaper about what was allowed to be published in the print version. “IU and The Media School had previously direc…
IU fires adviser of student media, stops printing Daily Student
Editors at the IDS said Jim Rodenbush refused to tell students to remove news from an upcoming special print edition.(Ethan Sandweiss / WFIU/WTIU News )For the first time in 158 years, Indiana University will no longer print the Indiana Daily Student.Media School Dean David Tolchinsky announced Tuesday night that campus leadership decided to end print editions starting this week. The word came hours after he fired Director of Student Media Jim R…
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