CampusJ Jewish Collegiate News was a website covering Jewish

Judaism

Judaism ) is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people...

 news

News

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 on college

College

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 and university

University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...

 campus

Campus

A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes libraries, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings...

es with a network of student journalist

Journalist

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s. CampusJ was launched in February 2005 by editor and publisher Steven I. Weiss

Steven I. Weiss

Steven Ira Weiss is an Orthodox Jewish journalist and blogger.-Biography:Weiss co-founded the now defunct Protocols, a Jewish blogging sites, where he coined the term "J-Blogosphere". He is also the founder of CampusJ, intended as a sort of "über-blog" for Jewish journalists at colleges around...

 of Canonist. The last posting was dated May 20, 2007. By 2008, the site appeared defunct, and many of the sections had no new content for months.

Student writing staff

CampusJ's staff of student

Student

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 reporters covered the Jewish news on thirty or more campuses, including American University

American University

American University is a private, Methodist, liberal arts, and research university in Washington, D.C. The university was chartered by an Act of Congress on December 5, 1892 as "The American University", which was approved by President Benjamin Harrison on February 24, 1893...

, George Washington University

George Washington University

The George Washington University is a private, coeducational comprehensive university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States...

, McGill

McGill University

Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...

, Northwestern

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

, Rutgers

Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...

 and Washington University

Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853, and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more than 110 nations...

, by reporting for campus-specific school homepages (blogs).

Big stories

In the spring of 2005, CampusJ broke the story that The New York Times

The New York Times

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had negotiated a deal with Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 administrators

Academic administration

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 to exclude student response in an article on academic

Academia

Academia is the community of students and scholars engaged in higher education and research.-Etymology:The word comes from the akademeia in ancient Greece. Outside the city walls of Athens, the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning...

bias in exchange for exclusive access to a report.