Talk:The Pitt News

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[edit] First Amendment

We definitely need some information about Pitt News' role in college journalism as a defender of the First Amendment. There's the Liquor Control Board thing, the time the paper published an article that Duquesne would not let its student paper run, and there's the time that we caught the Pitt Police filing a false police report after an officer stole ... well my notes. (I'm not sure I should be the one to add it, but it is an important part of the paper's role on campus. --Chris Griswold 12:04, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alumni - notability and lack of references

Most of the recent additions to these sections are simply not notable. Ideally, every one of these people should have an article on Wikipedia, or at least be notable enough to have one. Notability guidelines for Wikipedia ask, among other things, that the person is the subject of one or more non-trivial works. That means no press releases, for instance.

Simply being an intern, staff writer, copy editor at a newspaper; being editor of a relatively small newspaper; assisting a golfer; working at a library; teaching at a school in South Korea; working for NOW+ is not enough to justify inclusion. The award-winners, however, possibly could have their own section. Not sure collegiate awards satisfy notability, but a list of alumni who have won writing awards might be appropriate to this article.

Regardless, everything needs a citation. This article has been tagged as being unreferenced since July, and so unreferenced material should be removed, rather than added. --Superburgh 00:49, 18 February 2007 (UTC)