Tags

Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Penn State

1. July 18, 2012 06:50 AM

   Audit Notes: Too big to fail football, Guardian digital numbers, WaPo

   Penn State and the ramifications of a possible NCAA death penalty

   By Ryan Chittum

   It's not just the banks. Now elite college football programs are too big to fail, as well. Here's Bloomberg News on Penn State and a potential NCAA death penalty for its sexual-abuse scandal: If the NCAA levies the death penalty against Penn State, the financial losses would likely be debilitating, leaving non-revenue teams without funding and saddling the program with...

   Continue reading
2. July 13, 2012 05:24 PM

   Media reactions to the Freeh Report

   Revelations force turnarounds from journalists

   By Hazel Sheffield

   Media coverage of the 267-page Freeh Report on the Penn State child abuse coverup hasn’t stopped since it was released Thursday. The Freeh Report is the result of an independent investigation by the lawyer Louis Freeh into the actions of Penn State officials who worked with Jerry Sandusky, an assistant football coach at the university. The Washington Post live-blogged events...

   Continue reading
3. July 25, 2012 02:35 PM

   Sacred cows

   The Penn State story offers a glimpse of the problems with league- and team-owned broadcast operations

   By Robert Weintraub

   Full-Court Press is a periodic column about the coverage of sports. On July 12, a report prepared by former FBI Director Louis Freeh at the behest of Penn State University slammed the school for covering up former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky’s sexual predation of children, and demolished Joe Paterno’s reputation in the process. Freeh delivered the crux of his findings...

   Continue reading