The governor’s office in Nebraska has sought to punish a student newspaper it says published a sneaky story, the Omaha World-Herald reported today.

The article, which appeared on Thursday in the University of Nebraska at Lincoln’s Daily Nebraskan, profiled a convicted murderer who gives tours of the governor’s mansion through a Department of Corrections work-release program.

According to the governor’s press secretary, the student reporter who wrote the article said she was planning to write about the mansion’s spot on the National Register of Historic Places.

“We feel very deceived, very deceived,” the press secretary, Jen Rae Hein, told the World-Herald.

The governor’s office first considered banning Daily Nebraskan reporters from all news conferences, the Omaha newspaper reported. Then it said it would remove them from its e-mail list.

The student newspaper responded with an article today in which several experts take its side. —Sara Lipka