The student life director at San Antonio College, Jorge Posadas, told student journalists at the school he wouldn’t agree to an interview unless the paper paid him:
Jorge Posadas, director of student life, said in an email Monday, if The Ranger wants to interview him, “we can set up a professional consulting contract and we can negotiate an appropriate fee.”
Posadas has long demanded email exchanges with The Ranger and refused to conduct telephone or in-person interviews to provide information on the goings on of the office of student life.
Until recently, he has prohibited his staff from speaking to reporters.
The Ranger does not allow student reporters to conduct e-mail interviews except in unusual circumstances, such as military personnel serving overseas.
Posadas said the fee is for serving “as professional source on the subject of student affairs.”
In his email, he refused to be interviewed “since by doing so it is in an official capacity with repercussions I am not willing to accept.”
Posadas talked to the San Antonio Express-News (for free) and said he had misunderstood the paper’s request for professional consulting:
“I was confused. I was coming back off days of being away and it was like, ‘Whoops, that wasn’t good.’ It has been stressful here with all these budget (cuts).”
[Poynter]
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