Three weeks ago, a student-run newspaper with ties to New York University got a new editorial adviser: Kenna Griffin, a former reporter and editor who had taught journalism at Oklahoma City University for 16 years. She started advising the paper, Washington Square News, remotely from Oklahoma. On Monday, 43 of its student journalists — all but four people on staff — resigned. The tensions at Washington Square News, a journalistic training ground for N.Y.U. undergraduates since 1973, began when its editor in chief was “fired without warning” soon after Dr. Griffin started, the students wrote in a post that appeared on the publication’s website Monday.

Source: New York Times September 29, 2020 00:22 UTC