May 14, 2009 -- While many professional journalists fondly remember the work they did in college -- covering townie news for the university paper or radio station -- some are trying to erase their past work from the Internet because it shows up prominently on search engines like Google (GOOG).
But it turns out this is more common than we thought. Someone from my alma mater -- Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism -- is petitioning the school paper right now to remove some of their columns from the site that they're not particularly proud of. In this case, the paper wouldn't delete the articles -- that's really crossing the line -- but it might consider hiding them from Google, which could be less troublesome.