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Comparing sourcing, and verifying stories in print, digital media

Part of JEA’s Scholastic Press Rights Commission’s Constitution Day lessons and activity package: 3. Comparing sourcing, verifying stories in print, digital media In this lesson, students will compare and contrast the need for sourcing in digital and print media and develop for each platform. Policies should be consistent with professional journalism standards and allow for…

Accountability in journalism: What does it mean for student journalists?

Part of JEA’s Scholastic Press Rights Commission’s Constitution Day lessons and activity package: LESSON PLAN: Quick hits: questions for online discussion, inclusion in staff policies: The buzzword accountability. What does it mean? In this lesson, students will discuss three questions: • For what should journalists (commercial and scholastic) be accountable? • How do we define…

Checking your sources, evaluating and verifying them

Part of JEA’s Scholastic Press Rights Commission’s Constitution Day lessons and activity package: 4. LESSON PLAN: Quick hits: Checking your sources, evaluating and verifying them In this lesson, students will complete a quick exercise in which they attempt to check a publication’s sources, evaluating and verifying them. The discussion will lead toward the development of…

Reporting sharks in the subway: Evaluating the credibility factor

Part of JEA’s Scholastic Press Rights Commission’s Constitution Day lessons and activity package: 5. Lesson plan: Reporting sharks in the subway: evaluating the credibility factor In this lesson, students will examine several leads on a common topic and evaluate the use of sources, facts and the value of the news itself. Summative evaluation tool: Class…

Using online legal resources

Part of JEA’s Scholastic Press Rights Commission’s Constitution Day lessons and activity package: by Chris Waugaman Three primary Common Core state standards addressed (see https://www.thecorestandards.org/ELA-Literacy ) • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text…

If you need assistance or information

JEA’s Scholastic Press Rights Commission has a range of information and activities to gain assistance and information for those needing assistance with legal and ethical issues For legal assistance • Consider pushing our Panic Button. That action and completion of couple informational questions will alert members of the commission to your situation and they will…

What to look forward to this fall

With the beginning of another new year, we thought it important to let you know what the Scholastic Press Rights Commission has been working on to better meet your legal and ethical needs. • Our third set of Constitution Day lessons will be available around the first week of September on this site. • Also…

It’s all in the words used

Change can be a good thing. So can responsibility and appropriateness. Add accountability. Generally, we would also agree cyberbullying – or just bullying – is not a good thing. However, control in the guise these terms that dictate speech without common definitions and legal framework is not responsible and not appropriate. It is not acceptable….

3rd circuit reinforces student expression,
California system goes opposite direction

Two items of note to scholastic media and student expression so far this first full week of August, and the week is just starting. Both issues could be localized into solid stories no matter where your school is. • I heart boobies: The 3rd circuit ruled en banc Aug. 5 that a PA school’s ban…

The time is now

Individuals and groups still have one day to help ensure The Tinker Tour: The Power of an Armband happens next fall. The “Tinker Tour” is a bus trip across the country to promote youth voices, free speech and a free press. The tour’s goal, according to Mary Beth Tinker, tour organizer and plaintiff in the landmark…

Quill and Scroll joins groups
in opposing high school censorship

by John Bowen Quill and Scroll’s Board of Trustees became the latest scholastic media group May 24 as it unanimously endorsed the Journalism Education Association and Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication resolution on high school journalism censorship. Quill and Scroll’s Proposed Resolution reads: Quill and Scroll International Honorary Society for High School…

MIPA joins the resolution;
will you be next?

by John Bowen The Michigan Interscholastic Press Association became the latest state scholastic media group to endorse the Journalism Education Association and Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication resolution on the negative educational impact of the Hazelwood decision. The MIPA resolution read, in part, “The Michigan Interscholastic Press Association (MIPA) joins with the Journalism…