There are some predictable mistakes many newbie reporters make that are easy to avoid. I put together this list of the Top 10 based on my own experience as editor-in-chief of my college paper and an informal Twitter poll.

Like any journalism major worth his or her notepad, Alex Myers, an exchange student studying at SUNY Oswego, was just trying to get a few good quotes. But thanks to a shocking overreaction from SUNY Oswego administrators, Myers found himself suspended.

Ithaca College's president, Tom Rochon, instituted a new policy which requires student journalists seeking an interview with members of administration first file a request through the media relations office, which will then choose the interviewee "best fit."

As student journalists, we are the voice of the student body. We have a duty to report the truth, whether positive or negative. We aim to be as objective as possible in our attempts to tell each side of a story, because there is always more than one.

You may think the editors resigned to make a First Amendment point, but this isn't about the First Amendment. This is about journalism, and how we teach it, and what student journalists are supposed to learn.

What bothered my classmates more than Cotter's opinion itself was that she chose to write an essay about it and publish it online. It's the kind of thing you might think once in a while or talk about with friends but you don't put it on the Internet.

A news mob is, at its core, a swarm of journalists and community contributors converging on an event to cover it from every possible angle. Sharon gathered 91 editors, videographers, graphic editors, designers and reporters across different beats to cover the event from every perspective.

Have you heard? The journalism industry is in crisis. But this impending catastrophe is not what one might expect. Rather, the predicament facing journalists today is in how to embrace the digital.

The Trayvon Martin case has not only captured the attention of the national media, but college student media as well. Student newspapers from aroun...

Galileo could probably see more stars from Florence than we could from Boston, but I had a feeling his sense of relaxation in turning to the skies after a long day was probably similar to my own.

The second college media controversy of the summer centered on an orientation issue has surfaced at North Carolina State University. According to a S...

It's a weird thing to sit down with a man who's worth $13.1 billion, but on Monday I did just that.

Out-of-town reporters with camera and lights, microphones and makeup can't cover the story -- just the drama and the heat that real-life tragedy emits.

Zimnaku Mohammed Saleh lost his family, fled his homeland, and adopted a new identity- all before he could walk and talk. As a four-month-old livin...

A prominent journalism educator lightly scolded me for using the phrase "student journalist" to describe an undergraduate reporter. I see no need to run from the term. I say celebrate it.

Student journalist Cameron Burns got arrested, but he got the story -- no less than what student journalists are accomplishing daily, often without fear, for little to no pay, and at times in between classes.

Reading our partners' papers, I'm not worried about the future of journalism. Rest assured it exists, en masse, typing away on college campuses around the country.

Student news, I've always believed, is news in its purest. That said, reporters on campus will soon be reporters on the streets. They are the future of the news.