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Work with students as they select
the proper platform for content QT58
Guideline: Students should evaluate the best tool for the content it provides. Because of this, students should use processes for brainstorming and shaping the coverage that identifies how to best show the story. Student media should consistently and purposefully brainstorm what story ideas might be relevant and valuable to their audience. Students should not ignore…
Limiting student emails QT57
Guideline and policy The school can’t keep students from using email addresses they create for communications related to their student media. Nothing in Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) or Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA) overcomes the First Amendment protections students have nor the rights they have under state law. Key points/action: Talk to the Student…
Celebrate and reflect: getting the most
out of conventions with your students
by Kristin Taylor It’s April! For student journalists and their advisers, that means it’s time for another JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention. As many of us head to San Francisco Thursday, it’s a good time to think about why we attend conventions and how to get the most out of our attendance. First and…
How should student media
handle academic dishonesty? QT56
Dishonesty compromises the integrity and credibility of the student publication. The editorial board and/or adviser should address any instance of academic misconduct immediately. Student editors should develop a clear process for handling academic dishonesty. Both media staff and school policies may dictate consequences for academic dishonesty. In addition to school consequences, other approaches could include…
The National Walkout
by Cyndy Hyatt This generation of high school students has grown up in a world where school shootings are common and just another event in the news. Although gun violence in schools has lost its shock value, students still hold in the back of their minds the fear that it can happen here. Before the…
Stories students can best tell:
Reporting protests, walkouts and marches
Between March 14 and March 24, the SPRC shared legal and ethical guidelines as well as coverage suggestions for reporting walkouts, protests and marches. Because the topics are still ongoing and current, we’re loading all of our advice under one banner, for your convenience. If you have other questions or examples of coverage you would…
Accepting ads from competing organizations QT55
Students who sell ads sometimes hesitate to solicit advertising from competing companies. They sometimes have a loyalty to one of their clients or they believe their clients will be frustrated if their competitor is also advertising in the same publication. This is a good problem to have. Too many advertisers want to support your publication,…
More than a march;
a civics lesson and a wake-up call
by Stan Zoller, MJE The walk-outs by thousands of high school students on March 14 did more than call attention to a revamping of the nation’s gun laws, they also provided Americans with several other things. A wake-up call. A civics lesson. And a realization that high school students today are doing what high school…
Legal issues in covering protests
by Mark Goodman, Knight Chair of Scholastic Journalism The 1960s earned a reputation as the decade of protest: the Vietnam War, equal rights for African-Americans, women and gays. But the 2010s are on the way to rivaling the 60s as a decade of protest, especially for young people. Black Lives Matter, the Tea Party, #metoo,…
Plan and pack for social media coverage of protests
by Marina Hendricks, CJE Social media offers great possibilities for real-time reporting of protests. Here’s some advice for student journalists who are preparing for protest coverage, based on my experience attending the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 21, 2017. Before you go Check rules and regulations. Participants in the Women’s March were…
Tips for audio reporting of protests, walkouts
Video and audio by Lucie Rutherford. Used with permission Part of HHS Media, Harrisonburg High School’s coverage of students, faculty and staff lined up to show solidarity with Marjory Stoneman Douglas High where 17 died in a shooting Feb. 14. Knowing how to prepare and work with audio in covering protests, walkouts. SPRC member Vince DeMiero…
Students, join movement to make change:
Mary Beth Tinker
by Mary Beth Tinker The student uprising for safer gun laws is going to rock gun culture to its core. It already has. As it does, student journalists will be on the front lines, proving again they are not only the future, but the present. In this, they also have an opportunity to join…