Daily Illini: Illini Media Company directors terminate editor in chief’s job
Mary Cory, publisher of the Illini Media Company, and Adam Jung, vice president of the Illini Media Company board of directors and graduate student, addressed The Daily Illini staff present in the newsroom Tuesday evening around 7 p.m. concerning the employment of Acton Gorton, editor in chief.
The Chronicle: ‘Daily Illini’ Editor Who Published Controversial Cartoons Is FiredThe editor of The Daily Illini, the independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been fired for violating company policies when he decided to publish the controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that have infuriated Muslims around the world, the newspaper’s publisher announced on Tuesday.
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