You don’t have to be an excellent writer, a perfect interviewer or a craftsman with words to be able to spur real change and leave an impact with your reporting.
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While we are a proponent of fact-based, transparent reporting that tells the whole story, we recognize that there may be times when reporting on particular topics could lead to students on our campus facing irreparable harm from the federal government.
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As fellow students, showing even the smallest amount of appreciation can go such a long way.
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The White House announced last month that it plans to hand-pick which journalists are allowed entrance to its press conferences for coverage, with the selections being based on preferences for the media outlets they represent. This comes following many other turns toward questioning the established media outlets we have, even at the expense of smaller yet dedicated journalistic institutions — like our own newspaper.
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Business, engineering and medical students have an unfair advantage of direct options at their fingertips, whereas students in creative fields must network and research unconventional opportunities, as their roles may not be as clearly represented.
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Hate has no place in our community, and we must all do our part to continually call it out in ways that do not spur further negativity.
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If the College declines to enforce components of the Student Conduct & Expectations, what’s the point in even having it?
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When I turned in my first article, I had no idea what my future in The Signal would look like. I couldn’t see myself leading the whole organization the way the top editors at the time did, and I wasn’t sure I had what it took to produce the hard-hitting news stories that the paper needed. But in the semesters that followed, I became more confident in my writing abilities and set my sights on moving up the ranks.
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The Signal urges the Senate to pass The PRESS Act as soon as possible before its term ends in January.
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Having a well-informed voting public is the key to having a democracy. In a generation centered around social media and surrounded by information being spread easier than ever, it is crucial to fact-check the substance you are consuming.
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I am truly pleased that there are so many opportunities for my fellow engineering, finance and nursing students, and I hope that any who attended the Career Fair were able to walk away with a sense of fulfillment. However, I know there are plenty of opportunities for students like me in the artistic, creative fields, too — we just didn’t see them in the Brower Student Center on Sept. 25.
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It’s essential that college students exercise their right to vote in the upcoming election. Voter turnout among college students is significantly less than the national average, according to Pew Research, which means that the views held by younger voters may not be as accurately represented by the politicians who represent them.
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It’s time for me to say goodbye to the organization I have loved so dearly for the past three years. While I can accept it’s time for me to move on, this is one of my hardest farewells.
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The LIONS initiative, from the time it was announced in December through today, has little concrete substance behind it.
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I am not entirely sure how I came to lead this paper. Unlike many of the people I work with, I am not a journalism major nor have I ever taken a journalism class (and it shows sometimes). I never saw journalism as a career path for me and I still don’t; the only reason I joined The Signal was so that I had something to do during my fully online, first semester in 2020. Because of that random decision freshman year, I have been lucky enough to somehow fall upward into this leadership position that has forever changed my life. I have personally grown into someone my freshman self could never recognize. Not only have I found the confidence to be in such a leadership position, but I found my voice to speak up for what is right.
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With each passing year, more and more local media outlets are shuttering their doors, leaving communities without a trustworthy source of news. Student media can fill that void and begin a new wave of journalism.
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As a political science major, I have learned a lot about civics, the role of government and the importance of independent election agencies. I could confidently say I am rather educated on politics and the American political system. I therefore can not stay quiet about the continuous, embarrassing circus that is New Jersey politics.
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In December 1885, students at the New Jersey State Normal School published the first edition of this publication. The editorial board of that long ago version of The Signal dedicated the organization to “all rights and the highest interests of those whom we would represent.” Basically a fancy way of saying students. Those editors also wanted the publication to be thought of “as a Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance,” which is a reference to Don Quixote apparently. I never read the book so the reference is wasted on me but the words sound pretty which is good enough.
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The increasing reliance on AI tools throughout various industries has created many new challenges and unexpected effects.
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Sometimes, as the editor-in-chief, I feel like a fraud. It may be approaching the end of the semester, and I have spent over fourteen weeks in my role, but I still can’t help but feel like a fraud when I enter The Signal office and lead our weekly editorial and admin meetings. Even when we all sit around the big, round table in Forcina, and I go around the room, asking every editor about their weekly stories, I can’t help but feel a little bit out-of-place leading the meetings. I still feel the frustrating lasting effects of imposter syndrome, which is a phenomenon that describes feeling inadequate in your role despite your achievements.
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