Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Meghnad Rose ahd Ann Okes, 5/19/25

Headline:  “Columbia Keeps ‘Investigating’ Student Journalists Covering Pro-Palestine Protests”

Subhead:  “Reporters on campus say it’s a threat to press freedom.”

“On the afternoon of Wednesday, May 7, Celeste Gamble was in Columbia University’s Butler Library, studying for her final exams, when about a hundred student protesters launched an occupation of the reading room. . .”

“Gamble, twenty, is a reporter for WKCR, Columbia’s student radio station. She pulled out her press ID, recognizing that the timing had given her unique access. . .”

“Less than twenty-four hours later, Gamble, Lahr, Huckabee, and a reporter from the Columbia Daily Spectator all received notice from the university that they’d been suspended for being ‘involved in a disruption at Butler Library’. . .”

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