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Rutgers-Newark’s paper, The Observer, reports on an interesting intersection of student reporting and administrative oversight from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Steve Vega was forced to resign as the executive editor of the NJIT’s student newspaper The Vector after an independent review of a reporting controversy cleared him of deliberately falsifying a story—but called for his resignation nevertheless. The review also called for the administration, which has reimbursed one half of each semester's tuition for The Vector's editor-in-chief for more than 10 years, to extended payment to the rest of the executive board. Experts contend that monetary obligation to the administration compromises journalistic integrity, however.

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