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Author: Moriah Balingit

School searches newsroom

Uncategorized
December 17, 2007September 5, 2018 Moriah Balingit

It happened after hours, in the dark, when the reporters and editors had all gone home.

Tagged reports, Winter 2007-08

Shield law may leave gap

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December 17, 2007September 5, 2018 Moriah Balingit

For many journalists, the passage of the Free Flow of Information Act through the House of Representatives was an important step in creating the first federal shield law, which would protect journalists from being compelled by federal prosecutors to disclose their sources and other unpublished material in most circumstances.

Tagged reports, Winter 2007-08

Close call in California

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December 17, 2007September 5, 2018 Moriah Balingit

Twenty years after the Supreme Court announced its decision in the landmark student press case Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, experts still struggle to gauge its impact.

Tagged reports, Winter 2007-08

Digital divide

Uncategorized
December 17, 2007September 5, 2018 Moriah Balingit

Former editor in chief Jenny Redden of Oklahoma State University's student newspaper, The Daily O'Collegian, always thought of the newspaper and its Web counterpart, ocolly.com, as one and the same.

Tagged reports, The Daily O'Collegian, Winter 2007-08

Former Regent student who posted freeze-frame of Robertson sues school

News
December 3, 2007December 4, 2018 Moriah Balingit

A former student at Regent University School of Law filed suit Nov. 29 against the university, claiming that it violated his First Amendment rights when it punished him for posting an unfavorable picture of university president and televangelist Pat Robertson on the Internet.

Tagged Regent University, Va., Virginia Beach

Principal in Texas pulls paper with article on student drug use

News
November 27, 2007September 5, 2018 Moriah Balingit

The principal of McNeil High School in Austin pulled this month's issue of the student newspaper because of an article about drug use on campus.

Tagged Austin, McNeil High School, Texas, The Trail Blazer

Final report finds Eastern Michigan violated Clery Act

News
November 21, 2007September 5, 2018 Moriah Balingit

The U.S. Department of Education issued its final report Tuesday to Eastern Michigan University, detailing the school's violations of the federal Clery Act in failing to properly notify the campus about an investigation into the homicide of a student who was killed in campus housing.

Tagged Clery Act, Eastern Michigan University, Michigan

Wash. teacher who advised independent publications fired

News
November 20, 2007September 5, 2018 Moriah Balingit

Cascade High School teacher and former newspaper adviser Kay Powers was fired Nov. 2 by the Everett School District for allegedly violating district policies while helping students produce an underground newspaper and literary magazine.

Tagged "tyro libre", Cascade High School, Free Stehekin, Washington

Magistrate bars Cal State from enforcing portions of conduct code

News
November 15, 2007September 5, 2018 Moriah Balingit

A federal magistrate said he will temporarily barSan Francisco State University and the 22 other California State Universitysystem campuses from enforcing certain provisions of the student conduct codethat he ruled could be used to punish students for Constitutionally protectedspeech.

Tagged California State University system, San Francisco State University

Daily O'Collegian cuts off content from Web counterpart

News
November 14, 2007September 5, 2018 Moriah Balingit

OKLAHOMA -- The Daily O'Collegian stoppedproviding content for its Web counterpart, ocolly.com, after the generalmanager, a faculty member, hired a student to work for the Web site over theeditor in chief's objections.

Tagged Daily O'Collegian, ocolly.com, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University

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