|
|
Article: Student journalists bid farewell to anonymity. (signed editorials in Pennsylvania State University's The Daily Collegian)(The Masthead Symposium: Signed Editorials)
- Article from:
- The Masthead
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1998 National Conference of Editorial Writers. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
A meeting with some Pennsylvania State University student leaders last fall focused one of my goals as the student newspaper's opinion editor: The Daily Collegian's longstanding practice of publishing anonymous editorials had to come to an end, and soon.
In terms no doubt familiar to many readers of The Masthead, the student leaders wanted to know who was responsible for writing the editorials and why we couldn't disclose who served on the editorial board. They wanted to know why, if we had confidence in our commentary, we would refuse to stand behind it by publishing our names.
It is our policy, I replied, to allow editorial board members to be anonymous to ...