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Simple Mistake or Crisis?: A University Newspaper Meets the Committe for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) (A,B,C)
Jamie R. Hendry, Peter Van Emburgh
published: 2006 | Case Study | Business Ethics
Subject Area: Business Ethics
Key Issues: Crisis Management; Social Issues; Stakeholder Management; Communications and Public Relations
Case Description: This three-part case provides students with an opportunity to put themselves in the shoes of the managers of a university student newspaper faced with a crisis situation. The newspaper has recently adopted the latest digital publication procedures. In the midst of this effort, an advertisement submitted by the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH; www.codoh.com), challenging the authenticity of the Holocaust, slips by the editors and appears in the November 1 issue. By the time the add is discovered, 5,000 issues of The Speaker are already on newsstands around campus. Not only are university students and faculty upset at the advertisement's appearance, but word even gets out to the surrounding community, spurring a local rabbi to contact the newspaper's advisor. Coeditors-in-chief Paul Nelson and Hannah Logan work with advisor Jerry Francisco to handle the situation.
# Case Pages: 4
Case Number: 160050-24-1
Teaching Note: Yes
revised May 23/06
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