The Harvard Crimson stood by its reporting after student activists criticized the outlet for reaching out to ICE for comment. Then this week saw a different kind of controversy involving college journalists as the Northwestern University school paper apologized to student activists for contacting them for comment, and then received widespread backlash for the apology.
On this week’s edition of Beat The Press, Emily Rooney was joined by former White House correspondent Dan Lothian; Jennifer McKim of the New England Center for Investigative Reporting at WGBH News; Dan Kennedy of Northeastern University; and Callie Crossley of WGBH News.
