SPRC Panic Button - Journalism Education Association

The JEA Scholastic Press Rights Committee has implemented a support system for advisers and students experiencing censorship and demands for prior review in scholastic media. Let us know what’s happening at your school so we can inform others and provide resources. We use this system to track and help with concerns when someone other than the student editors or publication staff prevented or threatened to prevent the publication of information. This includes overt acts of censorship (requiring the removal of material); the punishment or threat of punishment to individual students, the student staff or the adviser based on choices the students make; the required review of the publication’s content by someone not on the student staff.

Name (required)

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School Address (required)

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Adviser name (if different from above)

Publication and media outlet name(s) (required)

Publication website (if applicable)

What is your role? (required)

Type of media affected: (required)

Please briefly, but thoroughly, explain what was censored, who censored it, when it occurred and how the situation arose. (required)

How did the staff handle the situation? What action did the staff take to resolve the issue? (required)

Did the staff seek help from an outside organization? If yes, which one(s)? (required)

Have similar incidents occurred at your school in the past? Please explain.