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Eager to learn, students find Hazewlood as inspiration, provocation to ‘ruffle feathers’
by Don Bott Hazelwood stories: My favorite part of teaching Journalism 1-2, the beginning class made up mostly of freshmen, is the unit on press law and ethics. Up until that point, we focus mostly on writing for various pages. A few in the class by this point are beginning to grasp the power of…
Tweet19: Practice sensitivity in your reporting
Practicing sensitivity is essential. Examine your approach to covering difficult topics. #25HZLWD http://tinyurl.com/a9w8szq How do we, as today’s information consumers, sift through the rumors, the gossip, the failed memories, the spin and try to capture something as accurately as possible? How can we overcome our own limits of perception, our biases, our experience and come to…
Tweet18: Develop, follow code of ethics
Develop a strong code of ethics, and follow it daily in planning all coverage. #25HZLWD http://jeasprc.org/tweet18-develop-follow-code-of-ethics No matter which media platform you use, ethics will play a daily role in your decision making. Rushworth Kidder in “How Good People Make Tough Choices” says ethics is a “right versus right” process. “Right versus wrong” situations are…
Blog12: Out of adversity, strength: Hazelwood leads to thoughtful passage of Iowa free expression law
by Jack Kennedy Hazelwood stories: Random thoughts about the Hazelwood decision: I was aware of this court case as it developed, unlike the Tinker case. I had been a high school sophomore when the protests in Des Moines were going on in December of 1963. I was 100 miles away, but may as well have been…
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…
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…
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…
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…