The media maxim that you haven’t made it until you have a Twitter doppelganger now applies to the stars of New York University campus journalism.
NYU Local, the student-produced news blog founded in 2008, acquired lively fake Twitter and Tumblr accounts this summer.
As far as social media satire goes, Fake NYU Local is less interested in mocking NYU Local than it is in stirring up trouble across campus. Read More
Student activists are easy targets. They're young, smug and inflamed with the fervor of unassailable beliefs. So when dozens of students staged a three-day demonstration—they referred to it unironically as "The Occupation"—at the university's student center last week, not only did their actions rivet the media, but they prompted gleeful bloggers to reward them with Read More
Student activists are easy targets. They’re young, smug and inflamed with the fervor of unassailable beliefs. So when dozens of students staged a three-day demonstration-they referred to it unironically as “The Occupation”-at the university’s student center last week, not only did their actions rivet the media, but they prompted gleeful bloggers to reward them with Read More
