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Read my lips: Students should exercise caution when producing lip sync videos
By Megan Fromm Sometimes, pop culture and reality align to provide the perfect anecdote for our weekly SPRC posts. This week, the timing of Jimmy Fallon and Emma Stone’s heated lip sync battle on the Tonight Show couldn’t have come at a better time. Earlier this week, the celebrities dueled over who could best move their mouth…
Guns in America: From schools to shooting ranges
In light of recent discussions nationwide on arming teachers and Second Amendment rights, the Urban Legend staff at Urban School of San Francisco researched and reported on student opinions of gun regulations. Read this PDF to see how they connected with a wide range of individuals to tell the story. Guns in America Adviser Beatrice…
Remembering James Tidwell
by Stan Zoller If you were to make a list of the amazing advisers who grace the walls of journalism scholastic education notoriety, odds are you would start rattling of the awards he or she has won. Pacemakers, Write-off winner, state JOY winners, Best of Show winners, etc. And the list would keep on going….
Students speak out about cancellation of SGA elections
MAKING A DIFFERENCE Series Students at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, DC, spoke out when a faculty committee chose officers for the upcoming student government offices instead of holding an election. That misstep caught the attention of The Beacon staff who wrote about the injustice in several issues. By the end to the year,…
Takedown demands?
Here is a roadmap of choices, rationale
Because of a growing number of takedown demands, requests for removal of online articles, JEA’s Scholastic Press Rights Commission offers guidelines to assist students and their advisers face these requests. Such requests typically come from sources, former staffers or citizens with concerns. We agree with the Student Press Law Center’s Executive Director Frank LoMonte when…
Legal considerations for responding to takedown demands
by Mark Goodman When a student news organization receives a demand to remove content from its website, consider a handful of legal considerations as well journalistic and ethical ones. The first question should always be, what’s the reason for the demand? • Is it based on a claim the content in question was factually inaccurate…
Ethical principles and considerations
If your students have to make takedown decisions, the legal advice is essential. Just as important are the various ethical possibilities, too. While the legal principles are relatively clear, ethical principles might not be.. In ethical decision-making, there is topically no right or wrong but primarily right v. right decsision. Such decisions might depend on…
Possible takedown models
Possible takedown choices Model A: Leave everything as is, if: • The request is designed to retain image or avoid embarrassment • No discernible evidence of factual or legal issue • Value of not changing information for historical, reality reasons • Publishing the truth, as best we can determine it • Credibility of the student…
Resources for takedown demands
Resources for the guidelines: • Responding to takedown demands http://www.splc.org/knowyourrights/legalresearch.asp?id=111 • Responding to takedown demands http://www.splc.org/pdf/takedowndemand.pdf • Responding to takedown demands http://studentpressblogs.org/nspa/responding-to-takedown-requests/ • 5 ways news organizations respond to ‘unpublishing requests http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/104414/5-ways-news-organizations-respond-to-unpublishing-requests/ • Post grapples with how to ‘unpublish’ and correct the record http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/06/AR2010080604341.html • The ethics of unpublishing http://www.caj.ca/?p=1135 • If you must unpublish, here’s…
Put Up recommendations
Developing a Put Up Policy Sometimes the best way to think about a Takedown Policy is to devise a system of proactive steps to avoid needing to take information down. Here are 10 steps to take before publishing: • Independently confirm information to be used for accuracy, context, perspective, truth and coherence • Determine whether…
A newsroom guide for handling online comments
“The New York Times and The Washington Post have the two smartest teams of lawyers and editors in the world, and they’ve come to opposite conclusions. The Times is a review first/post later system and The Post is a post first/takedown later system. So there’s no industry standard or consensus.” – Frank LoMonte, Student Press…
Information of how colleges
restrict athletes’ social media use available
year-round for localization
Even though Sunshine Week 2014 has passed, you can still obtain information about how colleges regulate athletes’ speech using social media and whether colleges would release the information when asked. This information is interesting and important on its own, but can also be localized for coverage in scholastic media. The resources are available here and…