Pulitzer Prize Board Praises Guts & Integrity of Student Journalists Across the Nation …

So Says the Board: As we gather to consider the nation’s finest and most courageous journalism, the Pulitzer Prize Board would like to recognize the tireless efforts of student journalists across our nation’s college campuses, who are covering protests and unrest in the face of great personal and academic risk. We would also like to acknowledge the extraordinary real-time reporting of student journalists at Columbia University, where the Pulitzer Prizes are housed, as the New York Police Department was called onto campus on Tuesday night. In the spirit of press freedom, these students worked to document a major national news event under difficult and dangerous circumstances and at risk of arrest.

This journalism prof at Hunter College has to wonder what’s going on with student news media at City University of New York. For for now, I’m assuming something’s going on … until I learned otherwise.

Office of the Chancellor, City University of New York: Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, Ph.D. — May 2, 2024

Dear CUNY Community,

As you know, we returned from spring break yesterday at a time marked by the increasing presence of demonstrations at colleges across the…