Ms. Miller took Tori Sutherland, a recent college graduate with her, and together they wrote the following essay: NYT's Nick Kristof is offering the opportunity of a lifetime to students: a ten-day trip to learn about journalism and the harsh realities of our world from an expert who has seen it all.
And Gannett and The Coloradoan have become targets for harsh criticism from college newsrooms and journalism departments across the country, who portray Gannett as a "dark lord" that wants to rein in student press freedom.
In recent years, the Voice has been subject to the increasingly harsh economic realities facing those creating journalism and written media.
"In recent years, the Voice has been subject to the increasingly harsh economic realities facing those creating journalism and written media," Barbey added in a statement.
Mr. Lanata, host of the Sunday news show "Periodismo Para Todos," or "Journalism for Everyone," is a harsh critic of the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, who was re-elected on Sunday.
New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen was even harsher.
Wary of criticism of her father, she refused to read the harsh press he attracted for popularizing savage tabloid journalism and for allowing his strong conservative views to bleed into news columns.
Ironically, some might say, a number of elite journalists have emerged as among Snowden's harshest detractors and of the brand of investigative journalism practiced, for example, by Glenn Greenwald, who has done much of the reporting on this ongoing story.
The harsh reality, though, is that the vast majority of journalism is practiced by profit-making organisations.
And because it casts two of the most celebrated figures in American journalism in a bad light, the push-back has been particularly harsh.
