Student Press Trend: Editor Resignations; Is This a Good Thing?

Over the past two months, three top editors have resigned from the student news outlets they helped run following high-profile screw-ups. In late January, Devon Edwards resigned as managing editor of Onward State at Penn State University after sending out the mistaken tweet read and believed 'round the web about the death of Joe Paterno. Late last month, Adam B. Sullivan suddenly quit his post as editor-in-chief of The Daily Iowan following a front-page debacle in which photos of hospitalized meth burn victims were aligned with a story on criminal meth addicts. And most recently, earlier this week Chelsea Diana was forced to resign as editor-in-chief of The Daily Free Press at Boston University following the publication of a callous April Fools' issue featuring drugs, sexual assault, and Disney characters.