The departure of Stanford University’s president of seven years is traced back to stories written by Theo Baker in The Stanford Daily last December, Tom Jones writes in the Poynter.     Top-notch reporting by the student newspaper at Stanford University has led to the resignation of the university’s president. Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne is stepping down after an independent review found significant flaws and uncorrected mistakes in studies he supervised going back decades. In addition, he will retract or add corrections to five papers in which he was the main author because the investigation found “manipulation of research … Continue reading Campus Journalism: How A Stanford Student Paper’s Report Leads To President’s Resignation