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Check out our new Press Rights Minutes
JEA’s Scholastic Press Rights Committee just added 10 new Press Rights Minutes, bringing the total to 30 available for class and activity use. Plans are to add more in the immediate future. Content includes 60 second audio clips on ethics and legal issues, including new pieces on handling sponsored content, creating balance and objectivity, using unnamed sources,…
Information worth class discussion
– and action
Looking for information concerning free expression to spark discussion? Consider these sites: • What’s the impact of overzealous Internet filtering http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/06/whats-the-impact-of-overzealous-internet-filtering-in-schools/ • Journalism and public shaming: some guidelines http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/326097/journalism-and-public-shaming-some-guidelines/ • Expulsion of two OK students over video leads to Free speech debate http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/12/us/expulsion-of-two-oklahoma-students-leads-to-free-speech-debate.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share&_r=0 • Sunshine Week 2015 ideas and activities from SPJ http://www.spj.org/sunshineweek.asp • Sunshine Week…
Must reads for after Scholastic Journalism Week
As Scholastic Journalism Week ends, we don’t want to lose sight of issues students and advisers continue to face. Some are as old as Hazelwood; some much newer and raise additional concerns. • Active voice: SPLC project strives to empower women in student media SPLC Executive Director Frank LoMonte told attendees at the organization’s 40th anniversary that…
Students support peers across the country in censorship case
Part four of a series – Making a Difference In celebration of the anniversary of the February 25, 1969, United States Supreme Court Tinker vs. Des Moines, the JEA SPRC Making a Difference project salutes the The Foothill Dragon Press at Foothill Technology High School in Ventura (Calif.) for their support of fellow student journalists across…
Seven schools win
First Amendment Press Freedom Award
A committee with representatives from the Journalism Education Association, National Scholastic Press Association and Quill and Scroll International Honorary Society is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 First Amendment Press Freedom Award. The award recognizes public and private high schools that actively support, teach and protect First Amendment rights and responsibilities of students…
Entry posting for Picture Freedom begins Feb. 22
There’s still time for students 13 and older can win a $1,ooo scholarship by sharing photos and artwork that illustrate freedom of expression in the Picture Freedom contest. Obtain information about the contest here. Click here to download the official rules. A guest column by Ken Paulson, president of the Newseum Institute’s First Amendment Center, and the…
Honor – and elevate – all programs
during Scholastic Journalism Week
by John Bowen With Scholastic Journalism Week starting Feb. 22, it would serve us well to note SPLC executive Frank LoMonte’s words in this week’s Education Week. LoMonte covers a number of points he suggests disrespect and trivialize high school journalism: mistreating female scholastic journalists, establishing the lowest, barely legal level of freedom for scholastic media and…
Don’t shoot (just) the messenger
in Williams’ fall from grace
By Megan Fromm, CJE When Brian Williams apologized on air for misremembering his involvement in a direct-fire incident during the Iraq war, critics and media pundits alike were quick to toss him off his pedestal. We may never know whether Williams intentionally misled his audience or truly suffered from a lapse in memory (and judgment), but…
New Hampshire bill may do more
than control surveys
by Stan Zoller The First Amendment guarantees five freedoms: freedom of religion, speech, press, the right to assemble and the right to petition. And while journalists – whether student journalists or professional journalists – wrap themselves in the security blanket afforded Americans by the First Amendment, it does not guarantee good journalism. What does help,…
Picture Freedom scholarship available
Students 13 and older can win a $1,ooo scholarship by sharing photos and artwork that illustrate freedom of expression in competition announced Feb. 3 by 1 for All and its partners. Obtain information about the contest here. Click here to download the official rules. A guest column by Ken Paulson, president of the Newseum Institute’s First Amendment Center,…
Contests can help promote students making decisions
“You mean my students’ newspaper can’t win the top award? Just because I read their publication before it goes to press?” an irate principal asked when he called his state’s scholastic press association a few years ago. Well, not exactly, but in a way – yes.
Our best dream: start from the beginning
An article in the Washington Times titled “Liberals’ worst nightmare: South Carolina schools move toward pro-gun curriculum,” caught our attention tonight. SC Rep. Alan Clemmons’ proposal would allow, according to the Washington Times, “reasonable pro-gun expression by students.” The proposal would require instruction on the right to bare arms for at least three consecutive weeks…