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Author: Laura Napoli

A call for help

Uncategorized
February 1, 2012September 5, 2018 Laura Napoli

School searches and seizures of students’ cell phones are becoming increasingly common. The confiscation of phones is of special concern to student journalists, because “smart” phones are becoming the Swiss Army knife of newsgathering, capable of shooting photos and video, recording interviews, and holding endless virtual pages of notes.

Tagged reports, Winter 2011-12

Work for hire? A guide to the legal issues involved when student journalists become ‘employees’

Legal
January 1, 2011October 5, 2020 Laura Napoli

Each day throughout the country, thousands of college students show up for work at the newsroom or the broadcast station.

Tagged "Student journalists", college, copyright, employee, employment, finances, First Amendment, liability, money, paying student journalists, public, reports, Winter 2010-11, work for hire

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