Alternative, online student media, like the Odyssey Online and the Tab, are becoming more popular on college campuses — sometimes causing rifts with traditional student papers.
Reporting Out of the Mainstream
Author: Ryan Tarinelli
Tug of war
For high school newspaper advisers, standing up for students’ free speech can come with a price.
Big League – little speech
They announced the boycott through Twitter, vowing not to participate in any football activities until embattled Missouri President Tim Wolfe resigned over perceived inaction toward an inhospitable racial climate.
Adviser questions demands for additional coursework, but college attorney insists there's no retaliation
A college journalism adviser believes he's been singled out unfairly with demands that he take additional graduate courses or lose his job, but the college insists the requirement was forced by an outside accrediting agency.
Back on the Trail: Retaliation questions resurface at Northwest College after adviser's job is imperiled
For the second time since 2010, the student media adviser at a two-year Wyoming college finds his job imperiled after students published articles about campus controversies that displeased administrators.
Illinois House unanimously sends New Voices press freedom bill on to Senate
Nearly 20 years after Illinois' governor unexpectedly vetoed a measure protecting student journalists against institutional censorship, press-rights advocates are halfway toward their long-sought goal.
Florida appellate court rules that universities cannot withhold names of student government officials
The Fifth District Court of Appeal withdrew its earlier opinion and decided the trial court had erred when it comes to student government officials' misconduct being protected by FERPA.
Illinois student press freedom bill passes unanimously through House committee
The Illinois New Voices bill would extend First Amendment protections to high school journalists. College journalists in the state are already protected.
New Nebraska law allows universities to only name a single candidate for top positions
University of Nebraska administrators now only have to present a single candidate for chancellor and president positions, instead of four.
North Carolina draft bill would remove teacher pay from the public record
A draft bill in North Carolina would make individual teachers' salaries exempt from the public records law to prevent teachers' "envy and jealousy."