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Monday, December 5, 2011

Occupy Davis, as Covered by High School Journalists - NYTimes.com

Occupy Davis, as Covered by High School Journalists - NYTimes.com:

Occupy Davis, as Covered by High School Journalists

Courtesy of Blue Devil HUBVideo taken by Anna Sturla, a high school journalist, of the U.C. Davis chancellor’s “silent walk” amid student protesters in the aftermath of the pepper spray incident.

Readers learned of the pepper-spraying incident at the University of California-Davis by reading coverage on The Lede, The Times’s breaking news blog, in a post by Brian Stelter. The next day, Mr. Stelter reported that the university had responded by placing two officers on administrative leave, and Jennifer Medina followed up a day later with an article about the fallout from the incident, including how the chancellor, Linda P. B. Katehi, was responding to calls for her resignation.

Meanwhile, the student journalists at Davis Senior High School, less than a