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Issues for possible discussion
Journalistically, it is been an interesting week for discussion issues. Two commercial issues and one scholastic event come to mind. • In Missouri, according to a SPLC News Flash, a school confiscated a student’s photos of an event in which a student was injured, would not allow the photographer to publish in print or online any…
Looking to meet your needs
Concerns bounced around the JEA listserv this week: • Who owns the copyright of student media work? • How to best answer ethical concerns about controversial stories? • What should a class in editorial leadership contain? • How do student media handle requests not to picture some students? Questions like these prompted JEA’s Scholastic Press…
Advice for your administrators: Student media CAN equal solid learning
Part 2 Achieving the most positive educational experience for everyone involved – students, advisers, administrators and community – is really simple. And it does not involve control or stripping the educational value of student media. Here are some suggestions: • Hiring the most qualified educator to teach and advise your scholastic media or helping one without…
Making a list…
The Center for Scholastic Journalism’s Candace Bowen, in response to a request on the JEA listserv, started a “wish list“ for administrators that would make student staffs’ lives easier and more effective. We would encourage you to check out that list and add to it.
Supporting the SPLC by shopping eBay
By bidding on several items on eBay within the next four days, you can help the Student Press Law Center and purchase parts of journalism history. Journalism teacher Jan Ewell placed on eBay several The New Republic magazines containing articles that led to Stephen Glass’ discrediting as a journalist. These are the articles mentioned in the…
The power of choosing the right words – and images
Whether it’s news about a tornado that hit New York City recently, the use of mosque in stories about the World trade Center or just how scholastic journalists refer to those they report, choosing the right words, and knowing their various meanings, is just another example of ethical decision making. Consider these articles as classroom…
Making sense of media: It’s not time for death knells
As part of his Ender series, author Orson Scott Card titled one book Speaker for the Dead. Ender, a child who had vanquished an alien threat to humanity, left Earth and spent time speaking for the dead, talking of people’s lives, their hopes and fears, their successes and their failures. Although some would currently argue…
Celebrate Constitution Day by seeking answers
Today we celebrate Constitution Day as all schools are mandated to by federal law. To focus this celebration of the Constitution’s 223 birthday, let’s ask ourselves and our school officials a few questions: • If we don’t train our students to practice and believe in our Constitution and Bill of Rights, how can we possibly…
Paul Steiger of Pro Publica on emerging ethical issues
Paul Steiger of Pulitzer Prize winning Pro Publica raised ethical issues generated by the rise of journalists using social and new media today at the Poynter Kent State Media Ethics Workshop. Among the issues Steiger raised (and can easily be discussed in terms of scholastic media): • The blurring of the lines between fact and…
Poynter’s making sense of information
Poynter’s Kelly McBride talked about Poynter’s Making Sense study of media this morning at the Poynter-Kent State Media Ethics Workshop. You can find a lot of usable information from this session at the workshop’s website. Some key points: • 31 percent of people say they want news from outlets with which they share a point…
Ethics workshop available Sept. 16 via streaming video
Kent State’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication will host the Poynter Kent State Media Ethics Workshop Thursday, Sept. 16, available as streaming video as well as live. The event also will be available to viewers on mobile devices. All participants can contribute to the workshop discussions and ask questions of speakers via Twitter. Workshop…
And now for something…untrue
Even though the “Great Roethlisberger Hoax” is history, parallel effects could be long-lasting. What will happen to fact-checking, verification and synthesis in print media – and online – in the future? After all, there are some who would argue that journalism’s use of social media creates a new standards. The need for speed outweighs the…