Today we say goodbye to our amazing summer intern Mia Hilkowitz. They are training them well at IU. She attacked everything we threw at her and on her final day is still asking for more!

The Indiana Daily Student fall beat application is here! We have everything — opinion and arts, sports, digital, socials, videography, Black Voices and a ton of news beats of course. These jobs - pay - build your resume - deliver news to Bloomington! Apply here: forms.office.com/Pages/Response…

IU Bloomington students🚨‼️ The Indiana Daily Student fall beat application has dropped! The IDS is a great place to build skills in all forms of reporting all while working with an AMAZING team and delivering news to the city of Bloomington! These are PAID positions! forms.office.com/Pages/Response…

First story of the DNC! Andrew Miller, Briana Pace and I will be in Chicago reporting for Indiana Daily Student this week, so stay tuned for updates.

"In more than a quarter of Indiana’s state house districts and more than a third of its state senate districts up for election in November, no Democrats are running," writes Andrew Miller idsnews.com/article/2024/0…

Print newspapers are back in Martinsville, Indiana. One editor took the fight to a local ghost newspaper - and used paper and ink to win. Read for Indiana Daily Student. specials.idsnews.com/ghost-newspape…

My first article as city reporter for Indiana Daily Student is here! For your Bloomington news, look for my byline 🗞️ idsnews.com/article/2024/0…

Here's a rough map of 2020 presidential results with extremely simplified municipal borders. At the bottom are Carmel and Fishers, very wealthy suburbs with a lot of growth. Up from that are Westfield and Noblesville, also lots of growth, and finally the more rural areas up top.

During my time at The Herald-Times, I talked to faculty and admin who described IU's centralization efforts as a "powergrab" and feared Bloomington's flagship status was in jeopardy. The story is part of a package investigating Whitten's leadership. heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/edu…

An important note on sources from the H-T's editor: "Most of them were too afraid to speak and few would do so on the record, fearing Whitten would blacklist them, as she reportedly threatened to do to a University of Georgia professor." heraldtimesonline.com/story/opinion/…

Another story from Boris Ladwig looked into how people felt about Whitten at Kennesaw State: KSU poli sci prof: “I got the feeling that we wouldn’t be able to agree on what color the walls in the room were." Read here: heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/edu…

And a story from Brian Rosenzweig on how public universities are growing increasingly corporatized. Under this model, sources described Whitten as functioning like a CEO. heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/edu…

BREAKING: A former IU basketball player has alleged that former IU athletics physician Dr. Brad Bomba, Sr., subjected himself and other players to “inappropriate prostate and rectal exams.” news.iu.edu/live/news/3788…

Today is National Voter Registration Day! Make sure to check out our voting guide: idsnews.com/article/2024/0…

As we await the details of the Media School’s five-year plan for the IDS, Jacob Spudich and I wanted to highlight why the IDS print edition is so important to protect. It’s practice for page designers, offers free, widely accessible news and, as it turns out, even runs a profit.

P1 of the Indiana Daily Student this morning. Brilliantly designed by Alayna Wilkening. You can read the full letter on the importance of our weekly print edition to our newsroom and to the community here: idsnews.com/article/2024/0…

Feeling very inspired after the higher education reporting workshop hosted by The Chronicle of Higher Education in DC. So much great work going on, including from fellow student journalists. Excited to bring these tips back to Indiana Daily Student so we can better cover IU Photo by Erica Lusk/The Chronicle