The challenges of last year will likely continue this school year, but SPLC is here to help. Staff attorney Jonathan Gaston-Falk shares this open letter to advisers to acknowledge and offer support for the particularly difficult moment they face.
Four important recommendations for student journalists based on what we learned from the Spring 2024 campus protests.
Charges against two Dartmouth College student journalists were dropped Tuesday just hours after a coalition of 15 national journalism and First Amendment organizations, including SPLC, sent a letter denouncing the students' arrests.
Expressing deep concern about the arrests of two Dartmouth College student journalists, a coalition of 15 national journalism organizations today called for charges against the students to be dropped.
Two student journalists at Dartmouth College were arrested last night while covering protests on the campus. Each was charged with criminal trespass. According to The Dartmouth, the college’s student newspaper, two of its reporters, Charlotte Hampton and Alesandra “Dre” Gonzales were both wearing press identification, and Gonzales was taking photos of the events. Among 90… Continue reading Student journalists arrested while covering Dartmouth protests
As a member of SPLC's Attorney Referral Network, Florida attorney Dineen Pashoukos Wasylik recently helped the University Press at Florida Atlantic University when it was sued for libel. Now she shares advice for other student media in the same situation.
308 F. Supp. 1329 (D. Mass. 1970) The editor of the student newspaper at Fitchburg State College, John Antonelli, successfully sued the college president after the president refused to pay to print future editions of The Cycle unless he or someone he appointed approved the paper first. The president was upset that the paper printed material… Continue reading Antonelli v. Hammond
The Student Press Law Center is here all year long to help students obtain needed records, but in honor of Sunshine Week, we are excited to announce the nominations for the Student Freedom of Information Award, as well as several terrific (and fun) resources.
Two California student journalists and a student media adviser have sued their district and administration, accusing them of “bullying, threatening and coerc[ing]” the student newspaper staff to “save face” and then retaliating by cutting a journalism class and removing the adviser.
Va. Code Ann. § 23.1-401.2 Public college student journalists; freedom of speech and the press. A. As used in this section: “Institution-sponsored student media” means any material that is prepared, substantially written, published, or broadcast by a student journalist at a public institution of higher education under the direction of a student media adviser and distributed or… Continue reading Virginia College Press Freedom Act
