What’s scarier than tales of a haunted house on Halloween?
…complete with ghosts howling and zombies grabbing for your hair? By Candace Bowen, MJE If you’ve been keeping track of news about student media, you probably know the answer: increased prior review, censorship and student journalist punishments for covering perfectly legal topics. Sometimes this has even meant removing an adviser from that position – or…
Read MoreHandling tough topics: Kirk, Kimmel and beyond
The day after Charlie Kirk was killed at Utah State, a few students in one of my classes asked for my thoughts. And while a number of people in and out of my district would say it’s inappropriate for me to answer that question – too controversial – I answered it. Because it is very…
Read MoreAmerica is…
“The one thing that I think is vital — our most important obligation,” Mark Goodman, former Executive Director of the Student Press Law Center and of the Center of Scholastic Journalism at Kent State University, said. “We HAVE to teach students that censorship is wrong, morally, educationally, journalistically, even when it cannot be avoided or…
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