“We want to actually do our job as a publication and write stories that people care about,” said Max Gordon, editor in chief of the school newspaper. “We can’t do that with the Telegraph when anything even slightly controversial is censored.”
Sandra Riesgraf, spokeswoman for Jordan School District, say the changes at issue to the school newspaper’s website were made to ensure that the students’ journalistic work is accurate, appropriate and informative.
Gordon said he and fellow student journalist Conor Spahr published their article about a teacher’s firing on Thursday to the original Telegraph website, which is owned by the school.