Jamal Khashoggi’s murder is a threat to journalists everywhere
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student government”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article covers threats to journalists, the state of journalism and the paper’s reported influence at Hopkins.
- The News-Letter reported that Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured, dismembered and killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul after advocating for free expression.
- The paper reported that at least 43 journalists had been killed because of their jobs worldwide by Oct. 11, 2018.
- The article adds that the median starting salary for a reporter was $34,150, while newsroom employment fell by 23 percent from 2008 to 2017 and newspaper employment fell by 45 percent.
- The reporter writes that the editorial called for Hopkins to provide more financial support and opportunities for students seeking journalism careers.
- The article says that after it questioned the Student Government Association’s ability to influence University decisions, the SGA introduced its first fall referendum, and that a later News-Letter feature on the Office of Institutional Equity was followed by a detailed report from that office.