''The Loyola Phoenix'' is the official

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. It is a student activity independent of the school's

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program. Published on a weekly basis, it not only serves the students and faculty of the various

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s of the

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in the

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and

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, but it also serves the northside Chicago neighborhoods of Edgewater and

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and has a readership that extends through the twenty-eight member institutions of the

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. Past staff advisors have been affiliated with the ''

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''. the faculty adviser to the newspaper is Katie Drews, a former investigative reporter at the Better Government Association and the 2008-09 editor-in-chief of The Phoenix.

History

Loyola's student newspaper was founded as the ''Loyola News'' in 1924. In 1969, the university sought to take editorial control of ''Loyola News'' after the paper criticized the university's administration and the

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. The writers and staff members responded by shutting down ''Loyola News'', and founding ''The'' ''Loyola Phoenix'', which initially operated as an independent business. Following the newspaper's coverage of an alleged violent beating of a gay man on the CTA Red Line by a then-Loyola student in January 2010, the ''Phoenix'' was subpoenaed for their notes regarding the case. Attorneys for the criminal defendant also subpoenaed the ''

'' and the ''

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''. In the summer of 2011, however, judge Diane Cannon, blocked the subpoena, which set a new standard for student journalists, entitling them to the same protection as their professional counterparts. The ruling was the first decision in

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to apply the law to a student newspaper.

References

External links

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