By REBECCA FERNANDEZ<\/p>\n
Plans for students at Ohio University\u2019s journalism school to travel with the United States Soccer Team to Brazil\u00a0for the 2014 World Cup, writing for and about the team, may come undone thanks to the students\u2019 tenacity.<\/p>\n
On Monday, students in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism learned of the trip and a lot of them tweeted about it. On Wednesday, several students contacted the U.S. Soccer Federation to start asking questions. And now, the U.S. Soccer Federation is thinking otherwise.<\/p>\n
The program seemed a sure thing on Monday when the school held a press conference announcing the team-school partnership.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is still in the works, actually. There has been a lot of excitement from our students,\u201d said\u00a0Associate Professor and Institute for International Journalism Director Yusuf Kalyango.<\/p>\n
But nothing is yet confirmed, he said, and the whole thing could fall through.<\/p>\n
Journalism students being journalism students ran with the story and contacted the federation for details, resulting in bad news of “it may not happen now.”<\/p>\n
Kalyango did hold the press conference with journalism students, but he didn\u2019t expect them, or the journalism school, to then report on it. But they did.<\/p>\n
For more information, see http:\/\/www.ohio.edu\/scrippscollege\/news-story.cfm?newsItem=6ED0AB31-5056-A81E-8D34D5FE7D34FB12<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By REBECCA FERNANDEZ Plans for students at Ohio University\u2019s journalism school to travel with the United States Soccer Team to Brazil\u00a0for the 2014 World Cup, writing for and about the team, may come undone thanks to the students\u2019 tenacity. On … Continue reading