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Building on Student Press Freedom Day and Year of the Student Journalist
This week began free expression celebration with Student Press Freedom Day, introduced the Year of the Student Journalist and showcased lessons and information on the 50th Tinkerversity. For those who might have missed or wanted this information and more, here is relevant information all in one place: Year of the Student Journalist activities start a calendar…
Truthtelling vs Storytelling: Some of you aren’t going to like this
by Candace Bowen, MJE Yes, it’s true. I’m going to question a concept scholastic media latched onto and often treats like the solution to all media problems. We got it from commercial media and have adopted it passionately: It’s storytelling. And, yes, it certainly has some value, but it has some pitfalls we and our…
A (written) step toward more faculty support
by Lindsay Coppens In good times and bad times, having faculty support can go a long way in ensuring student press rights. Towards the beginning of each year, but sometimes when we’re nearing the end of semester one, I send an email to the faculty and staff to thank them for their support, to reinforce…
Stop being afraid
by Cyndi Hyatt The media is under attack. Although friction between the press and the President is nothing new (John Adams, Teddy Roosevelt and Richard Nixon all had a cantankerous relationship with the press) this current labeling journalists as the “Enemy of the People” has far reaching effects that may even trickle down to student…
Trickling down hits the news room
by Stan Zoller, MJE The Ronald Reagan presidency, if nothing else, introduced the United State to “trickle-down economics,” which was described as a method by which “… benefits for the wealthy trickle down to everyone else. These benefits are tax cuts on businesses, high-income earners, capital gains and dividends.” It could be described that government…
Lack of media diversity creates problems for democracy
by Candace Bowen, MJE Columbia Journalism Review is focusing on diversity in this fall’s print issue and online site— not the diversity of inclusion or the diversity that just gives us more voices. In the intro to the Fall 2018 issue,author Jelani Cobb, director of Columbia University’s Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Human…
Student journalists should heal and transform the world
JEA Administrator of the Year, Rachel Simpson Thanks to the JEA for this award. It is an honor to be here and an extraordinary privilege — and a wonderful surprise, frankly — to be recognized in this way. Gratitude to everyone in this room for your work motivating student’ voice and student publication. Specifically, in…