The Spinnaker ran with a story about the rise among people who contract the sexually transmitted disease HPV through oral sex. Spinnaker editor Josh Gore says most of the complaints have been from university employees and outsiders, not students. “I think this is a real important issue to touch on, and this is the way we decided to illustrate it.” The photo in question is on their Facebook Page.

(from Techdirt, and Poynter.org:

The staff of Columbia’s Journalism School wrote a letter to President Obama saying any prosecution of Wikileaks’ staff for receiving, possessing or publishing classified materials will set a dangerous precedent for reporters in any publication or medium, potentially chilling investigative journalism and other First Amendment-protected activity.

“While we hold varying opinions of Wikileaks’ methods and decisions, we all believe that in publishing diplomatic cables Wikileaks is engaging in journalistic activity protected by the First Amendment. Any prosecution of Wikileaks’ staff for receiving, possessing or publishing classified materials will set a dangerous precedent for reporters in any publication or medium, potentially chilling investigative journalism and other First Amendment-protected activity.

As a historical matter, government overreaction to publication of leaked material in the press has always been more damaging to American democracy than the leaks themselves.

The U.S. and the First Amendment continue to set a world standard for freedom of the press, encouraging journalists in many nations to take significant risks on behalf of transparency. Prosecution in the Wikileaks case would greatly damage American standing in free-press debates worldwide and would dishearten those journalists looking to this nation for inspiration.”

Read more on how WikiLeaks defines ‘Freedom of the Press’ here….

Read more here on the Columbia staff letter…

The editor-in-chief of the University of Georgia’s campus newspaper resigned Monday after being asked to leave the president’s box – and a visit with Gov.-elect Nathan Deal and Gov. Sonny Perdue — during Saturday’s game against Georgia Tech.

Daniel Burnett, 22, acknowledged Monday that he had been drinking at a tailgate party Saturday before he went to the game. He apologized for his behavior but said he was not drunk and doesn’t believe he acted intoxicated in front of the governor and the governor-elect.

“It wasn’t like we ran right from a tailgate to the president’s box,” said the senior from Canton. “I think someone smelled alcohol on my breath and thought, ‘He’s a student. He shouldn’t be here.’” More here…

From Nielsen Journalism Lab:

“Google and news organizations have had a rocky time of it. To overdramatize the situation only slightly: Google insists that it cares about journalism as a necessity of our shared democracy; news organizations resent it as a (perceived) key cause of the financial strife that keeps them from fully defending that democracy. Today, though, brings an olive branch — a multi-million-dollar olive branch: Google is announcing that it will donate $5 million to encourage innovation in digital journalism. The grant will come in two parts: $2 million of it will go to the Knight Foundation, the journalism mega-funder — and $3 million will go to fund international news-innovation efforts, via a partnership with an as-yet-unannounced organization.” Read the full breakdown here

From Poynter:

Newsday to hire 34 journalists, add news/opinion pages
Memo from Newsday’s editor

From: ND-Communication Office
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 11:29 AM
To: ND-Communication Office
Subject: A message from Debby Krenek

Dear colleagues,

Newsday’s newsroom is hiring!

In a big step forward on boosting our local coverage, during the next six months we will hire 34 new journalists for our newsroom and digital teams, and add 2,600 pages of additional news and opinion to our newspaper annually. I’m very excited to announce that we are making this significant investment in people and pages to provide more and stronger coverage for Long Islanders….click

Go to the Huff Post and Vote!

Students who are vying to be their generation’s next top journalists were honored Thursday at the Detroit Free Press High School Journalism Program’s annual awards banquet. Since 1987, the Ford Motor Co. Fund has awarded a $24,000 college scholarship to a Detroit high school senior in the program who intends to pursue a career in journalism. This year’s winner is Rokeyta Roberson, a senior at Renaissance High School in Detroit. Read more here

Emmy Award-winning journalist Michael Radutzky, senior producer of the CBS news program “60 Minutes,” will address graduates at Cazenovia College’s 185th Commencement May 15. Read more here…

According to the press release posted on Newswise:

“The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is now accepting applications for its annual Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship program, which will be held from September 12-18, 2010. Established in 2000, the program is designed to introduce science journalists to the interdisciplinary and wide-ranging fields of oceanography and ocean engineering.

Through seminars, laboratory visits, and brief field expeditions, Ocean Science Journalism Fellows gain access to new research findings and to fundamental background information in engineering, marine biology, geology and geophysics, marine chemistry and geochemistry, and physical oceanography. Topics range from harmful algal blooms to deep-sea hydrothermal vents; from seafloor earthquakes to ice-sheet dynamics; from the ocean’s role in climate change to the human impact on fisheries and coastline change; from ocean instruments and observatories to underwater robots…

Read the full release here…

A college football coach ‘deep in the heart of’ Texas is backing football players accused of removing every copy of a student newspaper from racks around campus because of a front-page article about teammates being arrested on drug charges, (according to the police report)…

The coach is Guy Morriss, who also coached at Kentucky and Baylor and played 15 seasons in the NFL with the Patriots and Eagles. “I’m proud of my players for doing that,” Morriss said, according to an incident report. “This was the best team building exercise we have ever done.” Read more about this clown here…