The State News
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The State News is the student newspaper
of Michigan State University
in East Lansing
, Michigan
. It is supported by a combination of advertising
revenue and a $5 refundable tax
that student
s pay at each semester's matriculation
. Though The State News is supported by a student tax, the faculty
and administration
do not interfere in the paper's content
. The State News is governed by a Board of Directors
, which comprises journalism professionals, faculty and students. Unlike many newspapers, The State News does not employ an ombudsman
. In 2010, the Princeton Review ranked The State News as the #8 best college newspaper in the country.
It was first dubbed The Holcad, chosen by the president of the then-Michigan Agricultural College. Holcad was the name of a ship that carried news from seaport to seaport in ancient Greece
. The newspaper was seen as a way for students to defend themselves against charges of hooliganism by the Lansing press.
In 1925, the newspaper changed its name to the Michigan State News. Eventually, this got clipped to The State News. The paper was overseen by a university-run publications board.
In 1971, the newspaper was spun off from the university into a nonprofit corporation, State News Inc., governed by its own board of directors. The move was designed to protect the student publication from interference by university administrators who might disagree with its content. Its incorporation also protected the university from liability of anything published in The State News. The newspaper's masthead references this, referring to the publication as "Michigan State University's Independent Voice."
In August 2005, The State News moved its offices from the Student Services Building, where it had resided since the building's opening in 1957, to an off-campus location at 435 E. Grand River Ave. Prior to its location at the Student Services Building, the newspaper had its offices in the MSU Union.
critics argue that The State News has a liberal
lean because the paper's editorials often support Democratic
candidates and positions.
The paper's liberal cartoons have also been controversial. In 2000, The State News published Fetus-X which regularly contained psychadelic pictures of Jesus breakdancing with dead babies. After protests from the Catholic League
, The State News fired artists Eric Millikin and Casey Sorrow.
On Veterans Day
, 2005, editorial cartoonist Mike Ramsey drew a piece that showed a World War II soldier who liberated concentration camps conversing with a modern-day soldier who was shown holding a torture device. In response, Young Americans for Freedom
and the College Republicans
picketed the offices of The State News and called for Ramsey's dismissal. Ramsey was not fired.
The State News has also come under fire for running advertisements from controversial sources. In 2003, an advertisement showed Palestinians celebrating in the street while Israelis lit candles and prayed. The caption stated that these were the reactions to the 9/11 terrorist
attacks. Pro-Palestinian groups protested outside the Student Services building and demanded their taxes be refunded.
In 2008, the Michigan Supreme Court heard arguments regarding The State News lawsuit against MSU over Freedom of Information Act issues.
Internal controversies include a group of junior editors dissatisfied with the editor-in-chief starting a weekly newspaper, Campus Observer, in 1968. The following year, the managing editor took over the editorial reins in response to staff grumbling. In April 1977, a one-day newsroom staff walkout followed the board's appointment of the next top editor when the staff's recommendation was not picked.
In June 1950, the first issue of the summer edition of The State News carried an editorial critical of the Michigan Department of the American Legion
's Boy's State program held on the Michigan State College campus. Several days later, June 25, North Korea invaded South Korea initiating the Korean War
. The following Monday the state American Legion held its summer encampment and adopted a resolution calling for the suspension of The State News and the expelling of its student editor, Ron M. Linton. Later that week, Michigan State suspended further summer publication of the paper but declined to expel its editor. The school did however announce the appointment of a full time college employee, William McIlrath, as director of the publication with authority over the paper's content. It was later learned that the school had already planned this action but used this incident as a rationale. This culminated a period of six years—since the end of World War II—of increasing irritation of the school's administration by the independent attitude of the student journalists. Returning veterans were a significant portion of the paper's staff and, being several years older than students enrolled directly from high school and matured by war, they tended to exercise a more critical attitude toward campus events. This led to a series of articles and editorials about the difficulty had by African-American male students in getting haircuts, including the refusal of the Union's barber shop to service African-Americans. It also published a series critical of the school's plan to require male cooperative residences to hire "house mothers"; ultimately, the coops were exempted, but fraternities were not. The State News, to the administration's consternation, exposed the administration's efforts to block unionization of dining room and school service employees.
In another controversy, when the local Congressman demanded in 1950 that Michigan State remove left-leaning economist Paul Douglas
(later U.S. Senator from Illinois) from its lecture series, the paper fought back in a series of editorials that resulted in the Congressman turning tail. The State News was the first U.S. daily newspaper, commercial or student, to editorially criticize then-U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy
(R-WI) for his sweeping charges without proof of communist activities by a number of citizens.
On election day, 1948, The State News, going to press at 7 a.m., became the only morning daily to place Harry S. Truman in the lead for President.
The newspaper has won the Associated Collegiate Press
' Pacemaker award 17 times. The award, considered one of college journalism's top prizes, was won most recently in 2009. It won in 2003 for coverage of the U.S. invasion of Iraq
and a campus riot later in the spring of that year.
The Society of Professional Journalists
ranked The State News among the nation's three best college dailies in 2007.
Reporters often travel to cover news, especially to out-of-state sporting events, the 2008 Democratic and Republican national conventions and the 2009 presidential inauguration. Clinics and professional development opportunities are provided. A staff photographer at the paper has been named Michigan's College Photographer of the Year by the Michigan Press Photographers' Association each year for most of the last decade.
Alumni also have won Pulitzer Prizes, including M.L. Elrick who was part of the Detroit Free Press
staff that won the journalism award in April 2009 for their coverage of the texting message scandal of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick
. Elrick wrote for the State News in 1987-88.
Jim Mitzelfeld won in 1994 for beat reporting at The Detroit News
, 11 years after serving as editor-in-chief.
and the city. The State News prints 27,500 copies of the paper Monday through Friday during the Fall
and Spring semesters, and 14,000 copies two days a week during the summer. Those circulation figures make The State News one of the largest collegiate newspapers in the country. The paper is not published on weekends
(however, it does have a weekend edition distributed on Friday), holiday
s, or semester breaks, though news is constantly updated at statenews.com.
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
of Michigan State University
Michigan State University
Michigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act.MSU pioneered the studies of packaging,...
in East Lansing
East Lansing, Michigan
East Lansing is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. The city is located directly east of Lansing, Michigan, the state's capital. Most of the city is within Ingham County, though a small portion lies in Clinton County. The population was 48,579 at the time of the 2010 census, an increase from...
, Michigan
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
. It is supported by a combination of advertising
Advertising
Advertising is a form of communication used to persuade an audience to take some action with respect to products, ideas, or services. Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer behavior with respect to a commercial offering, although political and ideological advertising is also common...
revenue and a $5 refundable tax
Tax
To tax is to impose a financial charge or other levy upon a taxpayer by a state or the functional equivalent of a state such that failure to pay is punishable by law. Taxes are also imposed by many subnational entities...
that student
Student
A student is a learner, or someone who attends an educational institution. In some nations, the English term is reserved for those who attend university, while a schoolchild under the age of eighteen is called a pupil in English...
s pay at each semester's matriculation
Matriculation
Matriculation, in the broadest sense, means to be registered or added to a list, from the Latin matricula – little list. In Scottish heraldry, for instance, a matriculation is a registration of armorial bearings...
. Though The State News is supported by a student tax, the faculty
Faculty (university)
A faculty is a division within a university comprising one subject area, or a number of related subject areas...
and administration
Academic administration
An academic administration is a branch of university or college employees responsible for the maintenance and supervision of the institution and separate from the faculty or academics, although some personnel may have joint responsibilities...
do not interfere in the paper's content
Content (media and publishing)
In media production and publishing, content is information and experiences that may provide value for an end-user/audience in specific contexts. Content may be delivered via any medium such as the internet, television, and audio CDs, as well as live events such as conferences and stage performances...
. The State News is governed by a Board of Directors
Board of directors
A board of directors is a body of elected or appointed members who jointly oversee the activities of a company or organization. Other names include board of governors, board of managers, board of regents, board of trustees, and board of visitors...
, which comprises journalism professionals, faculty and students. Unlike many newspapers, The State News does not employ an ombudsman
Ombudsman
An ombudsman is a person who acts as a trusted intermediary between an organization and some internal or external constituency while representing not only but mostly the broad scope of constituent interests...
. In 2010, the Princeton Review ranked The State News as the #8 best college newspaper in the country.
History
The State News traces its roots to March 10, 1909.It was first dubbed The Holcad, chosen by the president of the then-Michigan Agricultural College. Holcad was the name of a ship that carried news from seaport to seaport in ancient Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
. The newspaper was seen as a way for students to defend themselves against charges of hooliganism by the Lansing press.
In 1925, the newspaper changed its name to the Michigan State News. Eventually, this got clipped to The State News. The paper was overseen by a university-run publications board.
In 1971, the newspaper was spun off from the university into a nonprofit corporation, State News Inc., governed by its own board of directors. The move was designed to protect the student publication from interference by university administrators who might disagree with its content. Its incorporation also protected the university from liability of anything published in The State News. The newspaper's masthead references this, referring to the publication as "Michigan State University's Independent Voice."
In August 2005, The State News moved its offices from the Student Services Building, where it had resided since the building's opening in 1957, to an off-campus location at 435 E. Grand River Ave. Prior to its location at the Student Services Building, the newspaper had its offices in the MSU Union.
Controversy and criticism
ConservativeConservatism
Conservatism is a political and social philosophy that promotes the maintenance of traditional institutions and supports, at the most, minimal and gradual change in society. Some conservatives seek to preserve things as they are, emphasizing stability and continuity, while others oppose modernism...
critics argue that The State News has a liberal
Liberalism
Liberalism is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally, liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights,...
lean because the paper's editorials often support Democratic
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
candidates and positions.
The paper's liberal cartoons have also been controversial. In 2000, The State News published Fetus-X which regularly contained psychadelic pictures of Jesus breakdancing with dead babies. After protests from the Catholic League
Catholic League (U.S.)
The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, often shortened to the Catholic League, is an American Catholic anti-defamation and civil rights organization...
, The State News fired artists Eric Millikin and Casey Sorrow.
On Veterans Day
Veterans Day
Veterans Day, formerly Armistice Day, is an annual United States holiday honoring military veterans. It is a federal holiday that is observed on November 11. It coincides with other holidays such as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day, which are celebrated in other parts of the world and also mark...
, 2005, editorial cartoonist Mike Ramsey drew a piece that showed a World War II soldier who liberated concentration camps conversing with a modern-day soldier who was shown holding a torture device. In response, Young Americans for Freedom
Young Americans for Freedom
Young Americans for Freedom is a 501 non-profit organization and is now a project of Young America's Foundation. YAF is an ideologically conservative youth activism organization that was founded in 1960, as a coalition between traditional conservatives and libertarians...
and the College Republicans
College Republicans
The College Republican National Committee is a national organization for college and university students who support the Republican Party of the United States...
picketed the offices of The State News and called for Ramsey's dismissal. Ramsey was not fired.
The State News has also come under fire for running advertisements from controversial sources. In 2003, an advertisement showed Palestinians celebrating in the street while Israelis lit candles and prayed. The caption stated that these were the reactions to the 9/11 terrorist
Terrorism
Terrorism is the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion. In the international community, however, terrorism has no universally agreed, legally binding, criminal law definition...
attacks. Pro-Palestinian groups protested outside the Student Services building and demanded their taxes be refunded.
In 2008, the Michigan Supreme Court heard arguments regarding The State News lawsuit against MSU over Freedom of Information Act issues.
Internal controversies include a group of junior editors dissatisfied with the editor-in-chief starting a weekly newspaper, Campus Observer, in 1968. The following year, the managing editor took over the editorial reins in response to staff grumbling. In April 1977, a one-day newsroom staff walkout followed the board's appointment of the next top editor when the staff's recommendation was not picked.
In June 1950, the first issue of the summer edition of The State News carried an editorial critical of the Michigan Department of the American Legion
American Legion
The American Legion is a mutual-aid organization of veterans of the United States armed forces chartered by the United States Congress. It was founded to benefit those veterans who served during a wartime period as defined by Congress...
's Boy's State program held on the Michigan State College campus. Several days later, June 25, North Korea invaded South Korea initiating the Korean War
Korean War
The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...
. The following Monday the state American Legion held its summer encampment and adopted a resolution calling for the suspension of The State News and the expelling of its student editor, Ron M. Linton. Later that week, Michigan State suspended further summer publication of the paper but declined to expel its editor. The school did however announce the appointment of a full time college employee, William McIlrath, as director of the publication with authority over the paper's content. It was later learned that the school had already planned this action but used this incident as a rationale. This culminated a period of six years—since the end of World War II—of increasing irritation of the school's administration by the independent attitude of the student journalists. Returning veterans were a significant portion of the paper's staff and, being several years older than students enrolled directly from high school and matured by war, they tended to exercise a more critical attitude toward campus events. This led to a series of articles and editorials about the difficulty had by African-American male students in getting haircuts, including the refusal of the Union's barber shop to service African-Americans. It also published a series critical of the school's plan to require male cooperative residences to hire "house mothers"; ultimately, the coops were exempted, but fraternities were not. The State News, to the administration's consternation, exposed the administration's efforts to block unionization of dining room and school service employees.
In another controversy, when the local Congressman demanded in 1950 that Michigan State remove left-leaning economist Paul Douglas
Paul Douglas
Paul Howard Douglas was an liberal American politician and University of Chicago economist. A war hero, he was elected as a Democratic U.S. Senator from Illinois from in the 1948 landslide, serving until his defeat in 1966...
(later U.S. Senator from Illinois) from its lecture series, the paper fought back in a series of editorials that resulted in the Congressman turning tail. The State News was the first U.S. daily newspaper, commercial or student, to editorially criticize then-U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957...
(R-WI) for his sweeping charges without proof of communist activities by a number of citizens.
On election day, 1948, The State News, going to press at 7 a.m., became the only morning daily to place Harry S. Truman in the lead for President.
Journalistic opportunity
Many of the paper's staffers have gone on to professional internships and jobs at the nation's largest newspapers. Alumni of The State News work for news organizations around the world.The newspaper has won the Associated Collegiate Press
Associated Collegiate Press
The Associated Collegiate Press is the largest and oldest national membership organization for college student media in the United States. The ACP is a division of the National Scholastic Press Association...
' Pacemaker award 17 times. The award, considered one of college journalism's top prizes, was won most recently in 2009. It won in 2003 for coverage of the U.S. invasion of Iraq
2003 invasion of Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq , was the start of the conflict known as the Iraq War, or Operation Iraqi Freedom, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq and toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein in 21 days of major combat operations...
and a campus riot later in the spring of that year.
The Society of Professional Journalists
Society of Professional Journalists
The Society of Professional Journalists , formerly known as Sigma Delta Chi, is one of the oldest organizations representing journalists in the United States. It was established in April 1909 at DePauw University, and its charter was designed by William Meharry Glenn. The ten founding members of...
ranked The State News among the nation's three best college dailies in 2007.
Reporters often travel to cover news, especially to out-of-state sporting events, the 2008 Democratic and Republican national conventions and the 2009 presidential inauguration. Clinics and professional development opportunities are provided. A staff photographer at the paper has been named Michigan's College Photographer of the Year by the Michigan Press Photographers' Association each year for most of the last decade.
Alumni also have won Pulitzer Prizes, including M.L. Elrick who was part of the Detroit Free Press
Detroit Free Press
The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, USA. The Sunday edition is entitled the Sunday Free Press. It is sometimes informally referred to as the "Freep"...
staff that won the journalism award in April 2009 for their coverage of the texting message scandal of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick
Kwame Kilpatrick
Kwame Malik Kilpatrick is a former mayor of Detroit, Michigan. Kilpatrick's mayorship was plagued by numerous scandals and rampant accusations of corruption, with the mayor eventually resigning after being charged with ten felony counts, including perjury and obstruction of justice...
. Elrick wrote for the State News in 1987-88.
Jim Mitzelfeld won in 1994 for beat reporting at The Detroit News
The Detroit News
The Detroit News is one of the two major newspapers in the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan. The paper began in 1873, when it rented space in the rival Free Press's building. The News absorbed the Detroit Tribune on February 1, 1919, the Detroit Journal on July 21, 1922, and on November 7, 1960,...
, 11 years after serving as editor-in-chief.
Publishing and distribution
The State News has a readership of more than 65,000 students, faculty, staff and residents of the cities surrounding the university. Free copies of the paper are available online or at green-colored newsstands around campusCampus
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...
and the city. The State News prints 27,500 copies of the paper Monday through Friday during the Fall
Autumn
Autumn is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter usually in September or March when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier....
and Spring semesters, and 14,000 copies two days a week during the summer. Those circulation figures make The State News one of the largest collegiate newspapers in the country. The paper is not published on weekends
Workweek
The workweek and weekend are those complementary parts of the week devoted to labour and rest respectively. The legal working week , or workweek , is the part of the seven-day week devoted to labor. In most Western countries it is Monday to Friday. The weekend comprises the two traditionally...
(however, it does have a weekend edition distributed on Friday), holiday
Holiday
A Holiday is a day designated as having special significance for which individuals, a government, or a religious group have deemed that observance is warranted. It is generally an official or unofficial observance of religious, national, or cultural significance, often accompanied by celebrations...
s, or semester breaks, though news is constantly updated at statenews.com.
Editors-in-chief
- M.E. Bottomley, 1917 (managing editor)
- G.O. Stewart, 1916 (managing editor)
- T.C. Dee, 1917 (managing editor)
- Tom Nicholson, 1949–50;
- Herman Graulich, 1951–52;
- Jack Kole, 1954–55;
- Mel Reiter 1957–58;
- Ben Burns early 1962–63;
- Bruce Fabricant 1963–64;
- Kyle Kerbawy, 1966–67;
- Jim Spaniolo 1967–68;
- Edward Brill 1968–69;
- Susan Ager, 1974–75
- John Tingwall, 1975–76
- Mary Ann ChickShaw (Chick Whiteside), 1976–77
- Michael Tanimura 1977–78; managing editors, Debbie Wolfe (who stepped down during the summer due to health reasons) followed by Kat Brown
- James L. Smith, 1978–79; managing editor, Anne Stuart
- Jim Mitzelfeld 1982–83;
- Joe Mielke, 1983–84
- Ken Niedziela, 1984–85
- Joe Serwach, 1985–86
- Kevin Roberts, 1987–88
- Kelly Root, 1988–89
- John Secor, 1989–1990
- Bill Frischling, 1992–1993
- Suzette Hackney 1993–94;
- Rachel Perry, 1994–95
- Christine Macdonald 1996
- Chris Solari 1997
- Jonathan Brunt 1998;
- Sharon Terlep 1999;
- David Miller 2000;
- Mary Sell 2001;
- Jeremy Steele 2002;
- Kevin J. Hardy 2003;
- Ed Ronco 2004;
- Amy Bartner 2005;
- Nick Mrozowski 2006;
- Margaret Harding 2007 (spring, fall);
- Laura Misjak 2007 (summer), 2008 (spring, fall);
- Matt Bishop, 2008 (summer);
- Kristen M. Daum 2009 (spring);
- Whitney Gronski, 2009 (summer, fall);
- Jacob Carpenter, 2010 (spring);
- Justin Harris, 2010–11;
- Cory Pitzer, 2011 (summer);
- Kate Jacobson, 2011-12 (fall, spring);
Hall of Fame
In 2006, the State News Alumni Association honored the first 15 inductees to its State News Hall of Fame. 31 additional names have been added through 2009. The first class included:- A.A. Applegate, MSU journalism chairman and mentor to students at The State News, 1936–1955;
- Len Barnes, news staff and editor, 1938–1942, who along with Sheldon Moyer, is credited with taking The State News from a three-day-a-week paper to a five-day-a-week paper featuring a wire service;
- Lou Berman, general manager, 1961–1972, who is credited with saving the newspaper from potential ruin;
- Ben Burns, reporter and editor, 1958–1963, who is a former executive editor of The Detroit News and head of the journalism program at Wayne State University;
- Phil FrankPhil FrankPhil Frank was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of the San Francisco-based comic strip Farley and the artist on nationally syndicated comic strip The Elderberries...
, cartoonist, 1961–1965, who went on to publish the strip Farley in the San Francisco Chronicle; - Carole Leigh Hutton, reporter and editor, 1975–1978, who helped hold The State News together during a staff walkout in the 1970s and the first female publisher and editor of the Detroit Free Press;
- Charles P. “Lash” Larrowe, faculty columnist, 1971–1989, who was an economics professor emeritus famous for his satirical column;
- Ron Linton, night editor and editor, 1947–1950, who was a senior consultant for the Carmen Group, served in high-level positions in Congress, worked on John F. Kennedy’s 1960 presidential campaign and was named director of Economic Utilization Policy at the Department of Defense;
- Dick Milliman, news staff, 1946–1950; board member, 1978–1985, 1991–1996, 2002–present, who is the founder of Milliman Communications, which has published more than 25 community newspapers in Michigan.
- Jim Mitzelfeld, editor in chief, 1982–83, who won the Pulitzer PrizePulitzer PrizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
in 1994 as a reporter for The Detroit News and is now an attorney for the U.S. Justice Department - Jim QuelloJames Henry QuelloJames Henry Quello was a Democratic government official who oversaw the communications industry and a scholar who was born in Laurium, Michigan. He was a Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission and, in 1993, served as the Acting Chairman of the Commission...
, editor, 1935, who served on the Federal Communications CommissionFederal Communications CommissionThe Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
for more than 23 years, including 11 months as interim chairman in 1993; - Dave Rood, news staff, 1946–1950, who in 1977 as editor of The Escanaba Daily PressDaily Press (Michigan)The Daily Press is a newspaper published in Escanaba, Michigan, United States. Serving Delta, Schoolcraft, and northern Menominee counties, the Daily Press publishes Monday through Saturday. Its offices are located at 600 Ludington St. in downtown Escanaba....
was asked by his paper’s corporate publisher to run two stories about President Jimmy CarterJimmy CarterJames Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...
. When Rood refused, saying the stories were shoddy journalism, he was fired. His stand for journalistic principles earned him national attention and a place in the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame; - Jim Spaniolo, editor in chief, 1967–68, a former dean of the College of Communication Arts and Sciences who in 2003 was named president of the University of Texas at ArlingtonUniversity of Texas at ArlingtonThe University of Texas at Arlington is a public research university located in Arlington, Texas, United States. The campus is situated southwest of downtown Arlington, and is located in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. The university was founded in 1895 and served primarily a military...
; - James P. Sterba, news staffer, 1960s, a foreign correspondent, war correspondent and national correspondent for three decades at The New York TimesThe New York TimesThe New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
and The Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
. He is currently a senior correspondent in the New York bureau of The Wall Street Journal; - Jerry terHorstJerald terHorstJerald Franklin "Jerry" terHorst was the first person to serve as press secretary for U.S. President Gerald Ford. Before being appointed press secretary, terHorst had been a newspaper reporter from Michigan who had covered Ford's career since 1948.-Early career:Jerald terHorst was born in Grand...
, reporter and night editor, 1941–43, who served as President Gerald FordGerald FordGerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974...
's press secretaryWhite House Press SecretaryThe White House Press Secretary is a senior White House official whose primary responsibility is to act as spokesperson for the government administration....
but resigned one month later to protest the pardon of Richard Nixon.
External links
- The State News website
- An entertainment website, Lansing Lowdown, includes a Lansing-area Dining Guide, Music/Movie Reviews, Restaurant Reviews and a calendar with upcoming events.
- [The State News Alumni Association http://snaa.statenews.com]
- State News Alumni Association Hall of Fame