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Today’s guest is Jack Diamond, senior instructor in the CMJF department and advisor of the student newspaper, the Standard.

 Check out the Standard’s website here -->
https://www.the-standard.org/ Note especially their email newsletter. They also have student-run podcasts!

Jack and I discuss:

• A student newspaper’s role in campus community.
• The impact of COVID on campus and on the Standard,
• The history of Standard and how its operations have changed over time,
• The now-defunct MSU readership program that used to provide the Wall Street Journal, NYT, and the News-Leader daily to students and the campus community,
• Some of the controversies the paper has covered,
• The classes Jack teaches, and
• Freedom of the press.

This was the first episode I’ve ever recorded in the Standard’s podcasting studio, and the equipment there is great! I’ll definitely be back!