PBS MediaShift Alana Taylor says after
writing about her "Reporting Gen Y" class at NYU, instructor
Mary Quigley told her not to blog, Twitter or write about the class again. (Quigley tells
Mark Glaser: "I would certainly require a student to ask permission to use direct quotes from the class on a blog written after class.") Glaser writes: "As a private school, NYU might be able to restrict a student's reporting on what went on in a classroom -- but that would go against everything that journalism schools are teaching students about the First Amendment and freedom of the press."
I was a student of Mary Quigley in NYU. She...