The Latest – Page 67

Adviser hopes for spread of anti-Hazelwood legislation

by Karl Grubaugh Hazelwood stories: On the 25th Anniversary of the Hazelwood decision, I can rejoice that it’s never applied to me. I live, teach and advise a scholastic newspaper in California, which has some of the strongest protections for student journalists and advisers in the nation. But I know so many other advisers from across the…

Tweet16: Know how to fight legal battles, if you must

If legal battles are necessary, students have to fight them, and know protected from unprotected speech. #25HZLWD http://tinyurl.com/bc98rs4 Advisers cannot fight legal battles for students. It is imperative students understand the difference between protected and unprotected speech and what is worth fighting for. Additionally, students need to know the process and resources available for them…

Tweet15: Know how to use public records

You have the right to information. Know how to use public records. #25HZLWD http://jeasprc.org/tweet15-know-how-to-use-public-records Open records—in other words, the government information that is accessible to the public— vary by state. Sometimes, finding exactly what is public in your state is simply a matter of knowing what state statute details this information. Use the links below…

Jan. 13 decision paralyzes student mood about journalism

by Brenda Gorsuch Hazelwood stories: When I became the newspaper adviser at West Henderson High School in 1983, I loved telling my students about the Supreme Court’s Tinker v. Des Moines Community School District decision from 1969. I enjoyed listening to them discuss the rights the First Amendment and the Court had guaranteed them. My students…

Tweet14: Use anonymous sources sparingly

Tweet-14–Use anonymous sources sparingly and have good reason for doing so. #25HZLWD http://jeasprc.org/tweet14-use-anonymous-sources-sparingly/ For any journalist, using anonymous sources creates a true predicament—one in which the newspaper’s credibility is on the line, and the reporter takes full responsibility for the authenticity and accuracy of whatever the anonymous source says. This is a difficult and precarious situation…

School censorship costs advisers, students at Illinois student media

by Randy Swikle Hazelwood stories: Here is a nutshell of Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois., and how Hazelwood diminished Barb Thill’s J-program: In Illinois, all but four staff members of one of the nation’s most honored student newspapers quit the publication and dropped their journalism class after school officials publicly rebuked student reporters and their…

Students stop presses to tell Hazelwood story,
principal wears black armbands with them

by Terry Nelson Hazelwood stories: Yorktown High School newspaper/ Broadcaster students of 1988, do you remember the Hazelwood First Amendment Supreme Court decision? It was 25 years ago… Here’s how I recall our story… I can’t believe it was 25 years ago. My students and I had discussed the Hazelwood case extensively in class, so…

Fighting the chilling effects of censorship leads to students funding own outside school paper

by Liz Palmer Hazelwood stories: Six years ago we began teaching journalism as a husband-wife team at duPont Manual High School’s communications magnet program in Louisville, Kentucky. Around the same time, one of the assistant principals became principal. Manual is the city’s highest profile and most competitive magnet school, and it puts the principal under considerable…

California ed codes protect student expression, adviser teaching

by Casey Nichols Hazelwood stories: I live and teach in a state protected from the Hazelwood decision by a carefully crafted California Education Code. And yet, periodically it rears its ugly head. In the past 19 years since I’ve advised at Rocklin High School, in both yearbook and newspaper, a parent will on occasion take exception…

Tweet11: Approach controversy with confidence, professionalism

Don’t self-censor. Learn how to approach controversial stories with confidence and professionalism. #25HZLWD http://www.jeasprc.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/SPRC-Standard-7-controv2.pdf Sometimes, being a student journalist means going head-to-head with others over stories that make people—even those on your staff—uncomfortable. Often, students are incredibly thoughtful and sensitive toward what stories might create tension or even generate real scrutiny of a person or…

Hazelwood made some better teachers, journalists; others suffered from fear

by Nancy Hastings Hazelwood stories: It’s hard to believe that it’s been 25 years since the Hazelwood decision came in…. it seems like only last week when the phone calls poured in from local media and area high schools asking for my opinions on what this would mean and my help to defend student rights from…

Scholastic journalism enhances critical thinking, exploration and leadership;
Hazelwood promotes none of it

by Bob Button Hazelwood stories: The Supreme Court decision in Hazelwood is arguably the worst blow to scholastic journalism in our lifetime – primarily because it struck a hammer in favor of control and against education in America’s schools. Having grown up in an era when student newspapers were seen as PR tools for the school,…