In student newsrooms, Trump’s press hostility forces editors to revise tradition

Campus journalists are rewriting the playbooks on takedowns, anonymous sources and other longstanding J-school ‘rules’

Ryan Monke, a senior at Hofstra University, is a managing editor at his school newspaper. When he isn’t in class to get his media studies and political science degree, he’s overseeing section editors, tackling important coverage at the paper and looking to expand The Hofstra Chronicle’s audience.

He’s also trying to figure out how to protect his reporters from possible deportation by the U.S. government.

Monke is one of thousands of students around the country training to become professional journalists while the president of the United States attacks their profession and sics federal officers on their fellow residents.