Brazilian Students deprived from their speech rights

A group of students were arrested for protesting at the Senate House in Brazil. Read the complete story here, or watch this video:

A message to Iranian students

Click to read: Persian Awakening: Using Collective Nonviolence for Achieving Reform in 2009 Post-election Iran

Flickr removes college student Obama/Joker photo art

The increasingly popular picture of Obama with make up “a-la-Joker” was removed from the Flickr service. This story published on Read Write Read explains the details  and poses the question: copyright infrigement or political censorship? Read the story here.

Thoughts on student newspaper censorship

Endless Fuel

by Astrid Viveros*

On January 2006, La Catarina, the college newspaper I worked for, was forced to stop publishing accurate, true stories that were labeled as overly critical. I naively thought Mexican media would have an instant uproar for such atrocity. We received support from a couple of local newspapers but were criticized by many others. We were portrayed in stories and articles as young troublemakers looking for attention, students trying to spoil the good name of one of Mexico’s finest universities.

However, we brushed the criticisms away and reminded ourselves we were fighting for a right cause: freedom of speech. After a couple of weeks of reaching out to national and international media, the administration caved in and we were able to publish our newspaper again. After this incident, I can proudly say that La Catarina saw some of the best work in it’s history.

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Censorship in Australia’s student press

Source: Honi Soit, Sydney University newspaper

Amelia Walkley explores the state of student media in Australia, and how our precious independent publications are threatened by the Voluntary Student Unionism. (Continue reading)

Writes of Passage

Derek Tinker writes that student magazines in Australian universities range from laddish rags to high-brow publications, but they’re all fertile breeding grounds for the journalists of tomorrow. (Continue reading)

Wichita State in dispute with student newspaper

Source: Fort Mill Times

Officials at Wichita State University have appointed a task force to review the operations of the school’s student newspaper, claiming the Sunflower suffers from sloppy journalism. (Continue reading)

Zimbabwe bans political rallies

Source: BBC News

Zimbabwean police have banned political rallies “with immediate effect”, amid growing tension over the country’s disputed presidential election. (Continue Reading)

Cuban blogger wins award for journalism

By Monica Cruz
Source: The Daily O’ Collegian
Spanish newspaper El Pais awards the Pulitzer Prize equivalent for Spanish speaking journalists. The Ortega and Gasset prize in the digital category was awarded to independent blogger Yoani Sanchez. Her merit goes beyond good writing and the blog’s popularity, which registered 1.2 million hits in February. (Continue reading)

To read the winning blog click here