Beach Haven Times: Journalists society to fact- find in OCC newspaper case

Here is an article from Wednesday's Beach Haven (N.J.) Times via the Ocean County Observer Web site:

Journalists society to fact- find in OCC newspaper case
Posted by the Times-Beacon Newspapers on 01/25/06

BY DON BENNETT
STAFF WRITER

TOMS RIVER — The Society of Professional Journalists and the College Media Advisors are entering the flap over the decision by the Ocean County College Board of Trustees to drop Karen Bosley as longtime advisor to the college newspaper at year's end.

"We'll give them everything they want," said OCC Vice President of College Advancement Tara Kelly.

"We're confident there is no First Amendment issue here. It is an employment issue," she insisted.

Kelly said she has been in touch with both groups and is trying to coordinate a single visit.

The Society of Professional Journalists will do fact-finding to determine if the decision to end Bosley's 35-year stint as advisor to the award-winning Viking News is an attempt to muzzle the newspaper or, as Kelly insists, is employment-related.

Both groups are likely to visit the campus and talk with the senior staff and others early next month, Kelly said...

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