At SMU, a big fight erupts over its little newspaper as Daily Campus alumni fear censorship
Who killed Student Media Co., the independent nonprofit that published Southern Methodist University's independent campus newspaper?
SMU professor and journalism division chair Tony Pederson says it wasn't him, despite what mad-as-hell alumni of The Daily Campus might think.
"It just didn't work here," said Pederson, a veteran newsman who once served as The Houston Chronicle's executive editor. "It didn't work from a financial standpoint, and there was nothing that we could do really to prop it up to the extent that would have to happen."
Alumni of The Daily Campus don't dispute all of that. The Student Media Co. did run out of money. But a hostile relationship with the university's journalism department and inept management of the Student Media Co. dragged The Daily Campus down, they say.
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