Can you imagine covering a story and being pepper-sprayed by
the police?
That’s exactly what happened to Anna Orso a reporter at the
Penn State Collegian while covering a riot that broke out during the breaking
of the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
The staff of the Penn State Collegian have been honored
nationally for their coverage of the scandal from beginning to end. With a the staff
of 175 people, they were able to play a sheer numbers game and have reporters
and photographers staked out throughout the campus and locations around State
College, Penn. Because of this they were able to cover every aspect of the
story.
Now imagine having an entire issue laid out and sent to the
presses when you find out that your cover story about Joe Paterno retiring is
actually not the case, instead he has been fired. The staff at the Collegian
literally had to stop the presses and recreate almost an entire issue. Finally,
they submitted to print around 3:30 a.m. on Nov. 10, 2011. With 10,000 papers in print, none were left
on newsstands by noon the same day.
One thing I found very interesting at this session was that
editors writing at the Collegian were a rare sight when the Jerry Sandusky
scandal broke, while at The CHIMES it is done on a daily basis.
Courtney Cook, ’13 Managing
Editor
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