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TIME spoke to student journalists from UCLA, Columbia, Northwestern and University of Texas at Austin who were on the front lines covering protests on their own campuses. As the unrest grew, student journalists were often best positioned to tell the story although they faced dual challenges—as members of the media and students at the institutions they were covering._ by [Man Sum Lai](https://time.com/author/man-sum-lai/) ## Man Sum Lai May 16, 2024 4:35 PM UTC TIME spoke to student journalists from UCLA, Columbia, Northwestern and University of Texas at Austin who were on the front lines covering protests on their own campuses. As the unrest grew, student journalists were often best positioned to tell the story although they faced dual challenges—as members of the media and students at the institutions they were covering. by [Man Sum Lai](https://time.com/author/man-sum-lai/) ## Man Sum Lai May 16, 2024 4:35 PM UTC TIME spoke to student journalists from UCLA, Columbia, Northwestern and University of Texas at Austin who were on the front lines covering protests on their own campuses. As the unrest grew, student journalists were often best positioned to tell the story although they faced dual challenges—as members of the media and students at the institutions they were covering. ## Transcript [00:00] I am a freshman journalism major at ET Austin, [00:03] and I work for the Daily Texan. [00:04] I am a freshman here at CLI. [00:07] And I work for the Daily Bruin as a video journalist. [00:10] I'm a junior at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. [00:13] I'm currently the editor in chief of the Daily Northwestern. [00:16] I'm a graduate student at Columbia journalism school. [00:19] I report for the S Zoom website at Columbia journalism School. [00:23] So I've been reporting on the encampments since they started two Thursdays ago. [00:29] Last year, there was the serial killer in Davis, [00:32] and I covered that for my paper. [00:34] And I thought that was as intense as journalism would get. [00:52] We do have a very unique perspective in that we're students. [00:57] And so we are seeing like [01:01] the protests and these issues affect our peers in our community directly. [01:07] I've been reporting on P Palestine protests since last semester. [01:11] And so I've gone to [01:14] quite a few protests that were organized by the same group of organizers. [01:20] And so I think being a familiar face also helps, [01:23] we are able to really connect with them and understand it in a way [01:29] that maybe national reporters or people who aren't there on the ground are able to. [01:41] Organizers of the demonstration were [01:44] definitely skeptical towards engaging with the media, [01:47] both with student media and with non university affiliated media. [01:51] On the first dada encampment, [01:52] the university said that non student media was not allowed on the law. [01:57] So they were basically restricted to [01:59] reporting on the other side of the fence on the sidewalk on the main road. [02:03] But we were there. Basically, 2047. [02:06] And I would say that with a lot of things, [02:07] the views and attitudes and behaviors range within the encampment, [02:11] there were some folks who were much more friendly and happy to [02:14] chat with us and some folks who really were not interested in engaging. [02:17] G we did give them things like anonymity when they asked for it because I mean, [02:22] we understand, like in a scenario like this. [02:25] They could face potential repercussions from the university. [02:30] But people are very willing to talk to us interson of the NPD had an impact. [02:36] I would say since the beginning, [02:38] they were pretty distrustful towards the media. [02:42] But I felt like after the I was there the first day and some people would talk to me. [02:50] But I think they were always reticent to talk. [02:55] I feel like it's not necessarily due to the NYPD because it's just [03:00] because this protest has been going on in Colombia for months. [03:06] In these months, they progressively [03:09] developed this form of distrust towards Columbia, towards the media. [03:14] We can say towards society, probably. [03:17] So it exploded, I think in the last two weeks. [03:23] Then eventually, the intervention of the NYPD just worsened the situation. [03:28] As of Wednesday night, we all wrote [03:30] our student media advisors number on [03:33] our arm so that we'd have it in case we were arrested. [03:38] Shortly after they arrested people and shortly [03:41] before they started dismantling the camp the encampment. [03:45] So they told us to get into [03:47] the pocerhle They pushed us inside and telling us not to get out. [03:52] Otherwise, we would have been arrested. [03:54] I think a big one was just like, [03:56] making sure that we had a plan and that we were all being very safe. [04:02] Initially, something that we struggled with on the photo side was, [04:05] do we want to show people's faces? [04:07] Because obviously, like, some people are being docks. [04:17] I have seen the daily Bron be criticized from both sides, [04:22] which in my mind, tells me that we're doing a good job at maintaining objectivity. [04:27] Tuesday night, I believe we were one of [04:29] the first outlets to call what happened an attack. [04:32] And other outlets were calling it at that point, [04:35] a clash between the two groups. [04:39] It was very much a one sided attack instigated by those counter protesters, [04:44] and I saw other media outlets adjusted the way they referred to that coverage to [04:48] mirror how we referred to it [04:50] because we were on the ground and we were in the midst of that. [04:54] The day I started reporting on this, my professors, [04:58] my CT Newsroom professors told me Francisco like we are not here for opinion, [05:03] so you just have to report. [05:11] This is really one of those rare moments where we can all kind [05:15] of acknowledge and understand that we're experiencing history in real time. [05:19] But knowing that folks are going to look back and look to student newspapers and [05:23] student journalism as the primary documents from this era of how things play out. 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