'CENSORED': Defiant Students Publish Digital Newspaper After University Bans Print Publication [View all]

Source: MEDIAite

Oct 17th, 2025, 7:11 pm



Indiana Daily Student


The turmoil at The Indiana Daily Student began on Tuesday, when director of student media Jim Rodenbush, an adviser to the Indiana Daily Student, was fired by the dean of the Media School.

Though the dean said in a letter that the firing was due to a “lack of leadership and inability to work in alignment with the university’s direction,” Rodenbush said he had “no doubt” that he was removed because he refused to comply with the school’s push to stop students from reporting news content.

Rodenbush, who has served as director since 2018, said in interviews that he began receiving pressure from the administration to stop student publication of news in August this year. He communicated these wishes to student writers and editors but refused to take part in the censorship himself.

“Any type of attempt on my end to censor or manipulate any content from a student media outlet is literally against the law,” Rodenbush told IDS staff during their Oct. 9 meeting. “This is First Amendment stuff.”

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