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Separating professional and personal lives is a well-established daily practice for working journalists and is an important part of the teaching that takes place at the Cronkite School and at journalism schools across the country."įor his part, Dale attempted to put out the fire by way of eight separate tweets, which we've combined.
"However, we believe that journalistic impartiality, especially in today's media climate, continues to be an important journalistic standard. After the online flare-up, the Cronkite School issued the following statement, which doesn't include a single sorry. "Under federal law (FERPA), the Cronkite School is barred from discussing any student's performance in an academic program," the response begins. Those are the reporters who are going to see through a lot of institutional BS and ask uncomfortable questions."Ĭhávez, for her part, had this to say to New Times via Twitter DM: "The Cronkite School should stop trying to train an entire generation of brilliant young people to be bootlickers. Another wrote, "By the way, newsrooms: Hire someone who can tell the system and nonsensical rules to go f*** themselves, in a tweet as direct, unadorned and courageous as this one. "Institutions that discipline young writers into this kind of absurd self-erasure are not equipped to deal with our political reality," one person maintained. Wait since we’re on the subject, remember the time my journalism school wanted to kick me out of their DC program for tweeting that my parents are immigrants while I was an immigration reporter /qgcXhpUGHX- aída chávez JThe response to the item was immediate and overwhelming. At this writing, the post has generated nearly 15,000 likes, just shy of 3,000 shares and more than 500 comments, with the vast majority ripping Dale, the Cronkite School or both. As reported by Phoenix New Times, one of Westword's sister publications, she was reminded of the missive after learning that NPR Music had allegedly severed its relationship with a friend, writer Kim Kelly, over her "activist stance." On her Twitter account, which boasts more than 25,000 followers, Chávez subsequently paired Dale's text with an introduction that reads, "Wait since we’re on the subject, remember the time my journalism school wanted to kick me out of their DC program for tweeting that my parents are immigrants while I was an immigration reporter." I'm trying to get two degrees and graduate early."ĭale's chastisement over this seemingly benign observation didn't hinder Chávez's career, but it clearly stuck in her craw. She countered Trump's usual immigration-related rhetoric by writing, "Fact: I wouldn't be here if my father didn't cross the border.
He added that such infractions could "result in a lower grade and, in egregious cases, may lead to removal from the program."ĭale's note was prompted by an August 2016 tweet by Chávez following a speech in Phoenix by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. The person leading this particular charge is a former student: Aida Chávez, currently a reporter for The Intercept, who recently shared a note from Dale in which he warned that a tweet about her immigrant father ran afoul of the school's social-media policies. Nonetheless, a three-year-old email Dale wrote while serving as executive editor and professor of practice for the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University has suddenly turned him into a whipping boy for j-school practices that plenty of folks see as antiquated and wrongheaded. "I always give people that advice," confirms Kevin Dale, executive editor for Colorado Public Radio. Journalists are frequently told never to write anything in an email that might prove problematic if it was made public.
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