Former Potomac Falls Grad Charged at James Madison for Reporting the News!

Editor's note from Dan Sousa: As a journalist and big supporter of the media, especially student newspapers in high school and college, I can't believe this wire story that came across from the Associated Press today! I have always heard very good things about James Madison University but I think the school is giving itself a real black eye by this behavior ... charges against student journalists doing their job on campus should be dropped immediately!

Harrisonburg (Oct. 27, 2009) - Former Potomac Falls High School athlete and journalist, Katie Hibson, is one of two James Madison University students charged ... for reporting the news!

Hibson, a 2008 Potomac Falls grad and a reporter for the JMU student newspaper The Breeze, was charged along with editor Tim Chapman, with trespassing and disorderly conduct after they were interviewing students inside a JMU dorm on campus about a Peeping Tom incident.

Hibson was a basketball player at Potomac Falls and also won awards for her work on the yearbook, among other accomplishments. In 2008 she received the school's Sportsmanship Award.

Read the story from The Breeze on the incident!

Read Katie's story here!

Here is the AP report from the Washington Post!