Writers, photographers, graphic designers: the Spartan Echo is accepting applications now for all editor positions. Student editors will serve during the spring 2017 semester and may receive a performance grant for their service. Amounts vary by position and funding availability. Some work–done from home–will be necessary during the winter break to prepare for the spring semester. Please see the Spartan Echo staff page at http://www.spartanecho.org/staff for more … Continue reading →
ISTANBUL (AP) — Dozens of Turkish demonstrators gathered in Istanbul on Tuesday, June 21, to protest the arrests of two journalists and an academic on charges of disseminating “terrorist propaganda.” A fourth journalist was released after a brief detention. Protesters chanted “a free press cannot be silenced” and “arrests, oppression cannot intimidate us.” Others held … Continue reading →
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Leftist rebels have freed a Spanish correspondent and two other journalists who went missing in a lawless region of Colombia, ending a weeklong saga that recalled some of the darkest days of a long-running conflict the South American nation is trying to move beyond. “Thank you to everyone who prayed for … Continue reading →
Writers, photographers, graphic designers: the Spartan Echo is accepting applications now for all editor positions. Student editors will serve during the fall 2016 semester and may receive a performance grant for their service. Amounts vary by position and funding availability. Some work–done from home–will be necessary during the summer break to prepare for the fall semester. Please see the Spartan … Continue reading →
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A Moroccan journalist on hunger strike to protest a travel ban has been hospitalized after collapsing. Maati Monjib, who ran an institute for investigative journalism and was a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, was hospitalized Tuesday after his blood pressure dropped sharply. He told The Associated Press from Rabat’s Ibn … Continue reading →
Our application deadline has been extended until Nov. 13. It’s time to build your resume by working in an award-winning organization and producing product that can be used as work samples when applying for almost any position that requires communication ability. The Spartan Echo, Norfolk State University’s nationally award-winning student newspaper, is accepting applications now … Continue reading →
BERLIN (AP) — A prominent Al-Jazeera journalist will remain in German custody for a second night, prosecutors said Sunday, adding they have not yet decided whether to extradite him to Egypt or set him free. As dozens of supporters protested Sunday in front of the Berlin court building where Ahmed Mansour was being held, his … Continue reading →
The Spartan Echo is accepting applications now for all editor positions. Editors will serve during the fall 2015 semester and may receive a performance grant for their service. Amounts vary by position. Some work—done from home—will be necessary during the summer break to prepare for the fall semester. Please see the Spartan Echo staff page … Continue reading →
LONDON (AP) — Freed Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste says it is too early to celebrate his liberty because his two colleagues still face retrial in Egypt. Greste was freed from an Egyptian prison earlier this month and his colleagues were released last week. He said Thursday, February 20, that the controversial court cases … Continue reading →
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