College newspapers are the funniest places on earth on March 31st. Fast forward 24 hours and many are in the dog house for their inappropriate, unfunny April Fool’s Day issues. Campuses yank the issues from the stands, editors resign in shame and a few unlucky papers see their names hit national news for the worst [...]

College newspapers are the funniest places on earth on March 31st. Fast forward 24 hours and many are in the dog house for their inappropriate, unfunny April Fool’s Day issues. Campuses yank the issues from the stands, editors resign in shame and a few unlucky papers see their names hit national news for the worst [...]

The Satire Project is a Canadian initiative to provoke laughter and thought about global politics. Their crack team of writers, cartoons and (we’re not kidding) puppeteers hope to bring informed mockery to government nonsense. Satire Project founders Suzanne Gallant and Andreas Krebs will join host Leah Wescott to talk about The Satire Project, a Canadian [...]

Start your weekends early! Friday November 16, CronkNews.com will introduce its new podcast series “Fridays Are Satire Days.” “‘Satire Days’ will examine the craft of satire, with a special aim on education,” says host Leah Wescott. “Our first guest is Sophia A. McClennen who wrote the book Colbert’s America. She’s a well known writer and [...]

No joke. The fake journalists at the phony higher ed news magazine The Cronk of Higher Education couldn’t believe there was no official day, week or month dedicated to the high art of irony and have jumped into action. “It’s unacceptable to ignore satire!” said Cronk senior writer Irma Pelt. “But also predictable. As the [...]

by Tweed Walters and Leah Wescott He may be college football’s most controversial coach. He follows his heart, plays with passion and has a smokin’ hot wife. Who better to play Cupid this holiday weekend? We bring you… Lane Kiffin’s 5 Tips for a Fantastic Valentine’s Day 1) Pick a sweetheart for Valentine’s Day. Say [...]

Billy Grainger, a third-year business student at Harvard, thinks he has the key to winning the famous Ivy League Biz-Off for aspiring entrepreneurs. “It seems the the market is saturated with sweatshirts from Princeton and Harvard. I see them everywhere, from high schools to state colleges,” said Grainger in the mock business plan he submitted [...]

CronkNews.com has challenged its staff, through manipulation, threats and temper tantrums, to improve social networking. The goal: to attract 100 Twitter followers before Ashton Kutcher recruits 4 million. Results so far: 09/17/09 Competition Start Date 09/19/09 10/03/09 Kutcher Followers 3,548,800 3,621,866 3,754,142 CronkNews Followers 39 47 50 Uh oh. Kutcher is closing in on 4 [...]

As the world mourns the July 17, 2009 passing of media icon Walter Cronkite, known best for his stoic announcement of John F. Kennedy’s death, college students pause to reflect. Their words sound eerily familiar to those heard for decades following the November, 1963 shooting. “I’ll always remember where I was this week,” said Wisconsin [...]

After reading Esther Wojcicki’s blog entry “Educators Urged to Allow Their Students to Fail” in the Huffington Post, incompetent faculty from every university in the country breathed a sigh of relief. According to Wojcicki’s post, author Malcolm Gladwell’s keynote speech for the National Education Computing Conference last month included a challenge to educators to allow [...]