Wednesday, February 4, 2009

A sad historic milestone for student journalism

Story:
SIUC student journalist becomes first American student reporter on memorial

WASHINGTON COUNTY -- The Newseum, a Washington based museum of news operated by the Freedom Forum, will add posthumously a Southern Illinois University Carbondale student as the first American student newspaper reporter to its Journalists Memorial on March 30.

Ryan Rendleman, a senior from Batavia, is on the memorial's list of journalists who died or were killed while reporting news in 2008.

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