College Newspapers Best Illustrate Campus Life
Editorial Board
May 19, 2017
Filed under Editorials, OPINIONS
Oberlin students are often presented as coddled, spoiled and so obsessed with political correctness that we have lost touch with reality, choosing to embrace a liberal utopia instead of facing the “real world.” If four years working at The Oberlin Review have taught us anything, it is that this port...
Journalists Must Remain Adversarial
Editorial Board
February 3, 2017
Filed under Editorials, OPINIONS
“You’re not supposed to be sycophants,” Barack Obama told journalists in his final press conference as president. “You’re supposed to be skeptics; you’re supposed to ask me tough questions.” President Obama’s message could not be more timely for those covering President Trump’s administra...
Off the Cuff: Michele Norris, Author and Former NPR Host
Louis Krauss, News Editor
September 16, 2016
Filed under Features, NEWS, Off the Cuff
Michele Norris is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist who spent nine years as the host of All Things Considered, NPR’s longest-running program. After graduating from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Norris began working as a print journalist at the Chicago Tribune, Los...
Holistic Approach to Journalism Necessary for Campus Newspaper
Editorial Board
September 2, 2016
Filed under Editorials, OPINIONS
Oberlin students likely spent the summer plagued by the question, “Is Oberlin really like that?” in reference to The New Yorker journalist Nathan Heller’s investigation of student activism on campus (“The Big Uneasy,” May 30, 2016). Though Heller faced backlash for supposedly favoring outspoke...
Off the Cuff: Joshua Pribanic, Journalist and Filmmaker
Kerensa Loadholt, News editor
April 22, 2016
Filed under Campus News, NEWS, Off the Cuff
Joshua B. Pribanic is a photographer, investigative journalist, artist and filmmaker. He co-founded the Public Herald, an investigative journalism nonprofit, and co-directed the documentary Triple Divide. The film, which was screened last Wednesday as part of the Ecolympics series, covers the water cont...
Columbia’s Review of Rolling Stone Article Promotes Questioning Survivors Beyond Comfort
Editorial Board
April 10, 2015
Filed under Editorials, OPINIONS
Content Warning: This editorial contains discussion of sexual assault. Six months after the initial publication of Rolling Stone’s exposé “A Rape on Campus,” the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University released a 25-page review detailing the missteps Rolling Stone made in its acco...
Exploring Nuances: A Column on Columns
CJ Blair, Columnist
March 6, 2015
Filed under Columns, OPINIONS
When you sign on to write a weekly column for your college’s newspaper, it’s all but guaranteed that you’ll occasionally struggle to think of topics. When that happens, you can either sit out for a week, or you can write something no one would really expect, like a column about writing columns....
Williams Controversy Highlights Perils of Fame in Objective Journalism
Editorial Board
February 20, 2015
Filed under Editorials, OPINIONS
Media lenses turned inward last week when NBC announced its Feb. 10 decision to suspend Nightly News anchor Brian Williams. Revelations that the Emmy Award–winning news personality had repeatedly misrepresented his experiences reporting on a 2003 Iraq War mission left the news network reeling, trying...
On the Record: Tim Page, Acclaimed Music Critic and Visiting Scholar
Vida Weisblum, Arts Editor
February 13, 2015
Filed under ARTS, Music, On the Record
Pulitzer Prize–winning music critic and editor Tim Page, the visiting scholar-in-residence for the spring semester, is teaching the Advanced Music Criticism class for both College and Conservatory students this semester. His musical background propelled him into a fruitful journalism career, writing for...
Rolling Stone Errors Highlight Poor Journalism, Perpetuate Rape Culture
Editorial Board
December 12, 2014
Filed under Editorials, OPINIONS
Trigger Warning: This editorial contains discussion of sexualized violence. After weeks of controversy over the veracity of a Rolling Stone article on rape at the University of Virginia, an anonymous source came forward on Tuesday claiming that the deputy managing editor of the magazine, Sean Woods, h...
Representative Media Coverage Requires Voices of Citizen Journalists
Editorial Board
December 5, 2014
Filed under Editorials, OPINIONS
Hours after a Staten Island grand jury announced Wednesday that a white NYPD officer would not be indicted in the death of Eric Garner, a black father of six who stopped breathing while held in a banned chokehold, The Huffington Post published a headline that stood out in the media frenzy: “A Grand...
Open Letter: SFC Stipend Cuts Limit Campus Discourse
Sam Morrow, Associate Editor, Wilder Voice
November 7, 2014
Filed under Letters to the Editors, OPINIONS
To the Editors: This semester, the Student Finance Committee elected to reduce The Oberlin Review and Wilder Voice’s allocated stipend hours, leaving the publications’ operating budgets otherwise unaltered. The only thing affected by the changes this semester is the amount of money pooled for ed...