Campus Reform
| Type | Online publication |
|---|---|
| Format | Online |
| Owner(s) | Leadership Institute |
| Editor-in-chief | Sterling Beard |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Headquarters | Arlington, Virginia |
| Website | campusreform.org |
Campus Reform is an American conservative-leaning news website focused on higher education. It is operated by Leadership Institute and its reporters are students.
In September 2015 Campus Reform said its website had received 9.3 million page views in the past year.[1]
The news site is known for outrage journalism, where it reports on incidents of liberal bias on American college campuses.[1]
The online publication maintains running list of "victories" — ranging from college policy changes to firings — on a dry-erase board at the website's Arlington, Virginia, headquarters inside the Leadership Institute.[1]
Notable stories
In September 2015, Campus Reform was first to report that David W. Guth, a University of Kansas associate professor of journalism had tweeted: "The blood is on the hands of the #NRA. Next time let it be YOUR sons and daughters" in reaction to the Washington Navy Yard shooting days before. The university was deluged by complaints and the university put Guth on temporary leave with pay.[2]
In 2015, former Campus Reform editor-in-chief Caleb Bonham reported on a student government vote to remove all flags from a campus inclusive space at the University of California, Irvine.[3] The student government bill accused all flags of being “symbols of patriotism or weapons for nationalism.”[4] The flag ban story received significant coverage on The Drudge Report[5] and LA Times.[6]
In April 2016, Kassy Dillon, a Campus Reform reporter recorded Hampshire College student Cora Segal yelling at Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos at a UMass Amherst speaking event.[7]
Staff
Sterling Beard, editor in chief.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d Schmidt, Peter (8 September 2015). "Higher Education's Internet Outrage Machine". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
Most important, in its view, it had scored 15 "victories" — a term it applies to any situation in which a college changes a policy, fires someone, or otherwise responds to concerns raised by the reporting on its site.
- ^ McMurtrie, Beth (8 September 2015). "What to Do When the Outrage Is Aimed at Your Campus". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
The university issued a statement, and the story was posted the next day. "Journalism professor says he hopes for murder of NRA members' children," the headline read. Once the National Rifle Association picked up the story, everything else at the university seemed to stop.
- ^ "U. California students remove offensive American flag from 'inclusive' space". Retrieved 2016-07-31.
- ^ "UC Irvine Bans "Imperialist" US Flag from Inclusive Spaces". 2015-03-07. Retrieved 2016-07-31.
- ^ "DrudgeReportArchives". drudgereportarchives-net.africancrisis.org. Retrieved 2016-07-31.
- ^ Times, Los Angeles. "American flag, others banned in UC Irvine student area". latimes.com. Retrieved 2016-07-31.
- ^ Dillon, Kassy (12 May 2016). "The Fempire Strikes Back: Anti- Milo 'Triggering' Activist Targeted Student Journalist". Heat Street. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
Late last month, Campus Reform, an online publication that reports on liberal biases on college campuses, published an article about a highly offended social justice warrior (SJW) who attended a conservative event addressing topics of political correctness and so-called triggering. The event was titled, appropriately, "The Triggering". Included in this article was a video where I recorded Cora Segal, a protestor seated in the audience, who was throwing an adult temper tantrum.