Conservative nonprofit’s new program to grow, improve independent student newspapers nationwide

At New York University, a Jewish student was temporarily booted from the student government, but the mainstream campus student newspaper the Washington Square News didn’t cover it. Nor did it cover a slew of student deaths and how campus officials didn’t acknowledge the tragedies campuswide.

But one student publication did cover these two stories — the NYU Review.

Six months ago, the NYU Review didn’t exist, but thanks to a new program launched by The Fund for American Studies, the independent student publication got up and running over the fall semester and has since reported campus news ignored by the official student newspaper.

“We’re giving a platform to voices that would otherwise be censored,” said co-founder Kayla Hutt, a sophomore, in an interview with The College Fix. “We are allowing for many different perspectives to get out there on campus and we are really promoting public discourse, which we believe is an essential aspect of journalism.”