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Student journalists play a vital role in covering campus events and issues in a unique, personal way. The COVID-19 pandemic has presented new challenges for student journalists, requiring changes like prohibiting on-site reporting to ensure safety. Student journalists have advocated for thorough coverage of their generation's experience during these unprecedented times, from quarantines to plans for reopening campuses. Their direct knowledge of how campuses are preparing and operating makes their reporting and push for awareness and accountability especially important.

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Student journalists play a vital role in covering campus events and issues in a unique, personal way. The COVID-19 pandemic has presented new challenges for student journalists, requiring changes like prohibiting on-site reporting to ensure safety. Student journalists have advocated for thorough coverage of their generation's experience during these unprecedented times, from quarantines to plans for reopening campuses. Their direct knowledge of how campuses are preparing and operating makes their reporting and push for awareness and accountability especially important.

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“WRITING IS OUR BLOOD, PEN IS OUR SWORD”

“It is the poets, artists, and musicians that will carry us through the pandemic
attacks into a new reality. They are the ones who tell us how to navigate, breathe,
feel, think, enjoy, and fully live our lives. (“Because the world had corona”)”
― Erik Pevernagie
Newsrooms across the country have prioritized pandemic coverage to keep the
people informed during these uncertain times. However, the ever-changing and
frequently unconfirmed nature of COVID-19 data has made it difficult for journalists and
researchers to provide the public with reliable information. On college campuses,
student journalists play a vital role; they cover student events, student government, and
sports in a unique, personal way.
Students can become more aware of what is going on around them through
campus journalism. At a young age, they are taught how to be proactive and responsive
citizens. It also assists and educates pupils in being more responsible. Fairness,
balance, and integrity are all taught and practiced by student journalists.
Journalism on campus gives students a voice. Student journalists can serve as
the student body's messengers. They can discuss topics that are important to both the
student and the school administration, such as issues, policies, and events. Students
use school publications to get their message to the right people at the right time. It's
also a technique of bringing students, faculty, and administration together and uniting
them. Also, campus journalism helps students to practice their freedom of expression
It was both an honor and a task to write news stories for the institution during a
pandemic. Given the difficulties of the current situation, school publication changed
several rules and regulations to allow its personnel to adapt while still producing high-
quality stories and material. On-site coverage, for example, was no longer permitted to
safeguard the safety of the writer and source, even if they were vaccinated. As a result,
we had to perform all of our reporting online.
On college campuses around the country, student journalists are leading
admirable efforts to report on the coronavirus outbreak. Student journalists have used
their voices and their influence to advocate for thorough and nuanced coverage of the
next generation's experience in unprecedented times, from quarantines to fall re-
openings.
It goes without saying that student journalists have always done vital and
necessary work reporting their communities, even before the pandemic. Nonetheless, at
a time when national and international news outlets are scrutinizing college campuses
for their preparations to combat the coronavirus, student journalists have direct
knowledge of how their campuses operate. As student journalists with significant stakes
in their coverage push for awareness and accountability on their campuses, the
pandemic has only served to underscore this truth.
One of the worries raised by student journalists was their capacity to keep up
with developments in their areas. Student editors have listed getting updates among the
university community without events as one of the most difficult problems. During this
period of social distancing, the aesthetic elements of student periodicals are equally
challenging. Photographers are repurposing old images, while graphic design teams are
filling in the gaps.

Student journalists are looking for ways to manage their beats. Nick


Townsend, arts and culture editor for Vanguard, stated “without events to
cover, we lost our foothold in the [arts and culture] campus community.
Culture is the collective spirit of community, and that’s still out there, it’s just
harder to track down now. That’s this term’s mission.”
Know that your work in journalism is about more than preparing students for the
workplace; it's about ensuring that the next generation of journalists is ready to
enlighten and educate people who need it most.

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