Overview
- The College Media Association, Associated Collegiate Press and Society of Professional Journalists removed Mary Margaret Olohan and Virginia Allen from the summer conference program.
- Oregon State University student media advisor Steven Sandberg objected to the event’s faith track as featuring “far-right, anti-LGBTQ” language and told organizers he would keep OSU students from attending if the speakers remained.
- Conference organizers said the pair were not disinvited for their opinions but because they “selectively quoted and manipulated the news to bolster their opinion,” according to reporting.
- Olohan and Allen contend they were canceled over their coverage of gender ideology, abortion and immigration, disputing the claim of reporting flaws.
- The Daily Wire reported that SPJ ethics chair Michael Koretzky notified Olohan of her removal citing “reporting problems,” while Columbia Journalism Review corroborated Sandberg’s complaint to organizers.