IU fires student newspaper adviser amid dispute over IDS content

The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university . But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

"We are alarmed, but not shocked, by this Media School administration’s decision to terminate Jim based on his commitment to defending our First Amendment rights," student Editors-In-Chief Mia Hilkowitz a