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Four Missouri Schools Earn Press Freedom Award
Perhaps it is fitting these four schools are this year’s recipients of the First Amendment Press Freedom Award. After all, it is the 25th anniversary of the Hazelwood v Kuhlmeier decision, and Hazelwood East, it can be argued, sits in their backyards. In Missouri. Even without a state law to support them, four St. Louis-area…
Celebrate Scholastic Journalism Week
with lesson plan gifts for others
by Candace Bowen It’s time to celebrate! Feb. 17-23 is Scholastic Journalism Week. Did your staff make 45 cookies, each with one word from the First Amendment on it? Wear staff t-shirts? Sign the TAO pledge? That’s great, but celebrations also need gifts and how about some for your colleagues, the other teachers down the…
Tweet 26: Now it’s your turn. What is the Hazelwood Cure?
After 25 days of Hazelwood, what would you like to see jlsm organizations address? How are YOU able to help? #25HZLWD http://jeasprc.org/tweet-26-now-its-your-turn-what-is-the-hazelwood-cure What are your thoughts and experiences. What would you like to see journalism organizations address and why. What are you willing to commit to? It will take all of us. We would love…
Tweet25- Paying the cost of Hazelwood
Tweet-25 Information coherence and civic engagement cannot develop under Hazelwood. #25HZLWD http://jeasprc.org/payingthecost/ by John Bowen Information coherence is at the core of democracy. Information coherence allows those in a democracy to compare, digest and use information. With it, communities can make informed and intelligent decisions. Without it, communities falter. Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel in The…
Tweet24: You can Make a Difference. Show everyone how.
Don’t give up. Change happens slowly. Cures don’t work overnight. You can make a difference. #25HZLWD http://jeasprc.org/tweet24-you-can-make-a-difference-show-everyone-how In 1988, because of the first outbreak of the Hazelwood malaise, JEA published its first collection of student journalists making a difference through their reporting. In 2012, we committed ourselves to updating the project, hoping to show student…
Marshmallow fluff: What learning looks like in Hazelwood’s world
by Candace Bowen Hazelwood stories: Jan. 14, 1988. As I walked through the main office of St. Charles (Ill.) High School, my principal waved me into his office. “Did you hear that Supreme Court decision?” he said. I didn’t need to ask which one – the whole scholastic journalism community had been worried about Hazelwood v….
Tweet23: Social media use requires legal, ethical guides
Social media can be daunting. Know how journalism standards, legal and ethical principles apply. #25HZLWD http://jeasprc.org/tweet23-social-media-use-requires-legal-ethical-guides Social media are merely other tools in the arsenal of journalism. Social media offer student journalists much in the way of new approaches and coverage possibilities, but like all “new” communication tools of the past they also bring fear…
Student journalists can ward off prior review, Hazelwood with TAO pledge
Student journalists can ward off prior review, Hazelwood by taking TAO pledge #25Hzlwd http://jeasprc.org/tao-pledge/ by Kathy Schrier Hazelwood stories: Student journalists who take the TAO of Journalism Pledge, promise to be “Transparent, Accountable and Open” in their practice of journalism. Upon taking the pledge, they may post the TAO of Journalism Seal with their masthead….
Educate others about journalism’s role, skills for our future
Tweet-22 Educate others about journalism’s role, skills for our future. #25HZLWD http://www.jeasprc.org/tweet22-educate-others Journalism and democracy were born together. Democracy cannot long exist without an active and professional journalism program. But today’s journalistic role has changed. We can no longer just deliver information. We must make sense of the world and also help citizens make sense of…
Lessons on ‘things we did not want them to know’ result in successful action against censors
by Gloria Olman Hazelwood stories: Twenty-five years before the Hazelwood Supreme Court decision, I was defending students’ right to publish on topics from a teacher strike to locker searches and letters to the editor. “I will defend your right to publish all the way to the Supreme Court, but it will be on a serious matter,…
Hazelwood is everyone’s problem
by Carrie Faust Hazelwood stories: Since the Supreme Court voted to limit the rights of scholastic journalists with the Hazelwood v Kuhlmeier decision in 1988, Colorado – and six other states – have enacted legislation to ensure the rights of students in those states would not be affected. Ideally, because some state laws can trump…
Tweet20: Don’t fight censorship alone: Share with others
Report censorship and share your stories about the legal and ethical problems you face. #25HZLWD http://jeasprc.org/tweet20-dont-fight-censorship-alone-share-with-others Those who face censorship or restraints on their ability to publish factual, truthful and accurate information should know they are not alone. The SPLC has its legal assistance network, the Journalism Education Association has its Panic Button and its…