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Student journalists are covering their own campuses in convulsion. Here’s what they have to say

By DAVID BAUDER and CHRISTINE FERNANDO
Associated Press Writers

NEW YORK (AP) — Student journalists at campuses across the country are getting a pressure-filled, and dangerous, lesson in their chosen profession during a chaotic springtime of protests. Some student journalists at UCLA were beaten during a demonstration where violence interrupted this week. Two student journalists at Dartmouth College were arrested as they covered a campus protest. And Columbia University journalists were forced to stay in dormitories as police cleared out a building where protestors had taken over. The young journalists are immersed in the story in a way older professionals coming from the outside are not. But they face challenges in covering friends and classmates at the institutions they are attending — while still getting ready for exams.

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