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@olystuart
Great to hear this is going live now!! Show solidarity with musicians trying to declare sovereignty from corporate middlemen. Not all decentralization is crypto stuff.
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@logonaut.eth
This warms my heart as former newspaper journalist who attended Purdue University but also has close family ties to Indiana University.
❝Student journalists at Indiana University and Purdue University are being honored for fighting back against administrative actions they believe encroached on press freedom rights.
Last October, Indiana University sparked national outrage after it fired the student media director and ordered the 158-year-old Indiana Daily Student to cease printing its newspapers. This was after administrators pressured the adviser to drop traditional news content from print editions.
The IU administration's abrupt changes meant the IDS could not fill newsstands with the print edition it had designed for homecoming week. So, Purdue's student paper, The Exponent, printed 3,000 copies of a solidarity edition and drove the stacks two hours down to Bloomington.
Now, the camaraderie between the students at rival universities has earned them a national ethics award from the Society of Professional Journalists.
IU and Purdue students accepted the Fred Brown SPJ Ethics in Journalism Award on Monday afternoon. The award honors the legacy of a Coloradan journalist who pioneered the industry's ethical direction and died earlier this month.
The journalists are the first students to receive the award since 2003. Last year's winner was the Associated Press, which fought back against the Trump administration for cutting its access after the publication refused to acquiesce to coverage demands.
“It’s fitting that student journalists from SPJ’s home state are the first recipients of this award since it was named for Fred Brown, who taught media ethics for years and credited his students with providing energy and inspiration for his work,” SPJ Executive Director Caroline Hendrie said in a news release. ❞
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2026/04/27/iu-purdue-student-journalists-honored-for-censorship-battle/89817945007/
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