Ohio State, the first team to run the gauntlet of four playoff games on its way to the national title, celebrated with 30,000 Buckeyes fans on Sunday at Ohio Stadium. Fans braved 30-degree temperatures to welcome home a team that beat five top-10 rivals on its way to the title, including Oregon in the Rose Bowl, Texas
Columbus Blue Jackets owners and executives on Monday were contrite over the forced resignation of controversial coach Mike Babcock days before the opening of training camp and eager to move on from the turmoil that engulfed the organization. “All we can do now is learn from it and do everything we can to help our
Every semester brings with it anticipation, excitement and trepidation. It is a beginning in so many ways — meeting new class friends, trying out new teaching techniques, exploring emerging topics and technologies. This semester is also, for our family, the beginning of an end. Our son, Danny, is beginning his final year of school. I
When student-athletes in 2021 were finally provided the chance to earn money from their name, image and likeness, some feared it would be the end of college sports as we knew it. Fast forward two years, and the majority of Americans seem ready to let them bank even more bucks. Nearly 70% of U.S. adults said
Injuries are an unfortunate part of any sport – none more so than in the NFL, where players can be felled in front of a TV audience in the tens of millions. Typically, when a player suffers an injury, the media cuts to commercial and returns with replays of the injury – sometimes running it over
Dwayne Haskins was killed stepping in front of a dump truck on a darkened Florida highway. It was a shocking story, heartbreaking for his family, those who loved him for his football prowess, those of us who knew him during his tenure at Ohio State as a student and quarterback. Two young women made the
This column first appeared in the newsletter for the Media Ethics Division of AEJMC. There has never been a better time to be a collegiate journalist—or a more challenging one. Covering campus creates trials that transcend stereotypical stories about housing, food or Greek life. Now the news is of global pandemics and racial inequality, rising
This column first appeared in the AEJMC Media Ethics Division Winter 2021 Newsletter I was in class when the text came: “Can we talk ASAP about an ethical issue”? It was one of our Lantern Student Media editors, but he was reaching out about a quandary he faced in his internship with an NPR affiliate.
Published first in the AEJMC Media Ethics Division newsletter Our student-journalists at Ohio State started the 2019 Ohio State fall semester covering a campus-area shooting, and we thought that was a crazy way to kick off the year. If only we knew what was coming. This year we were barely out of the 2019-2020 school
Published first in the AEJMC Media Ethics Division newsletter The Lantern thought it was covering a straightforward campus protest over racial injustice. Within hours Ohio State’s student media was in the middle of a First Amendment fight. It started with a public safety notice. The Ohio State reported two sets of students near campus had