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Looking for your suggestions

JEA’s Press Rights Commission will meet at the Poynter Institute Jan. 5-7 to focus on important future legal and ethical issues to address. We always look for your suggestions and advice. Leave a comment or contact a commission member. Have a great new year.

Predictions for 2010?

“Old Media/New Tricks” is gathering predictions for media in 2010. Using Twitter, the blog’s creators are urging 140-character tweets about what others see in the coming year. They said their tweet would be: 2010 media predictions: More collaboration (soon with Wave), tablets on the rise, mobile strategies emerge, paywalls lose favor. #Media2010 I posted one:…

Focusing our efforts

JEA’s Scholastic Press Rights Commission will meet Jan.5-7 at the Poynter Institute to work on and develop commission projects to better serve members, their students and communities in terms of press rights and responsibilities. Some of the topics commission members are considering are: • Brainstorming and implementing a “blast outreach campaign” to students about their…

Start the semester out right

Just relaxing and avoiding work is a good way to spend winter break, but, with the new semester not far off, maybe a little time can go into getting lesson plans in order. Why not explore some of the wealth of online materials available? Particularly if it’s a new group of students and a new…

Celebrate the Bill of Rights

Today is the 219th birthday of the Bill of Rights. Take time to celebrate our freedoms on this day this and every year. Support for this celebration comes from 1 for all. Check out their website for more materials and information.

Elementary school students First Amendment rights honored

The National Association of School Boards has posted their interpretation of the Morgan v. Swanson case which was handed down November 29 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. You can read their rendition of the case at http://tiny.cc/130vu

Can compromise create an environment where freedom can thrive?

In reviewing for a unit on media literacy for my online ethics class, I found this in the “Elements of Journalism” by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel: “A newspaper that fails to reflect its community deeply will not succeed,” the authors quote Jack Fuller, president of the Tribune Publishing Company. “But a newspaper that does…

So say we all

Rushworth M. Kidder, founder of the Institute for Global Ethics, highlights an ethical process called the Potter Box in his book, How Good People Make Tough Choices. This process, first discussed by Ralph B. Potter in 1965, suggests four steps decision-makers should consider before making policy or taking action: • Consider the situation • Determine what…

First Amendment Press Freedom Award

If you and your students attended the JEA/NSPA convention this past week in KC, you are aware of the courageous fight some teachers and advisers wage against censorship. In some cases they kept their student media operating as designated forums for student expression or as practicing forums for student expression. Others still continue to fight…

Rethinking news values

We all emphasize the aspect of news values in our journalism programs: timeliness, conflict, consequence, proximity and more. Perhaps it is also time to update those values with a list of ethical news values for our scholastic media programs. The original news values, for the most part, say authors Philip Patterson and Lee Wilkins in…

Press Rights Commission sessions at KC

Those looking for sessions about legal issues at the Kansas City JEA/NSPA convention can consider these sessions offered by members of the press rights commission: • Designing a Strong Editorial Policy, Friday 9 am, 2206 KCCC: Editorial policies can be your strongest ally or your worst enemy. Learn what a strong policy should contain and…