Category: Podcasts

https://splc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/1380_splcpodcastoctober2016o.mp3 Frank LoMonte: Hi, everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Student Press Law Center's monthly podcast. On the SPLC podcast we run down news and ideas about the law governing the rights of student journalists in high schools and colleges. The Student Press Law Center is an advocate for student First Amendment rights.… Continue reading October 2016 Podcast: Meet the OG in the fight for student press freedom

Montana is known for big skies, skiing, and breathtaking scenery (our Montana-raised Publications Fellow is absolutely not biased whatsoever). Unfortunately, it's now also known for highly questionable policies in dealing with sexual assaults at one of its largest universities, the University of Montana.The situation at UM came to prominence with the publication of Jon Krakauer's… Continue reading September 2016 Podcast: Digging for truth in the Treasure State

Last year, Texas A&M's student newspaper, The Battalion, produced a groundbreaking investigative report that traced their university's foundation investments to conflicts in Sudan and exploitive mining operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo among other human rights tragedies. This month, Frank talks with Texas A&M student and Betty Gage Holland Award-winning Battalion reporter, Spencer Davis, along with… Continue reading August 2016 Podcast: Dark money on campus — an award-winning investigation of university investments

Judith Wilde and James Finkelstein join SPLC for this month's Podcast to discuss the troubling trend of public universities hiring private head-hunting firms to conduct presidential searches in secret. Wilde and Finkelstein, both working from the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, recently released the result of their own research breaking… Continue reading July 2016 Podcast: Why so secret? Shedding light on closed-door presidential searches at public universities

SPLC Director Frank LoMonte speaks with Justin Hemlepp, the attorney representing Knight News, an independent student news outlet at the University of Central Florida, in their FOIA lawsuit against the university.

Audio from Rep. Will Guzzardi's presentation of HB 5902 and the House's 117-0 vote on May 31, 2016.

Rachel de Leon, associate producer with Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, explains how the CIR's RevealNews.org uncovered exaggerations in colleges' claims about equal athletic opportunities for women, and how reporters can use federal disclosure forms to break stories on their own campuses. Frank LoMonte: I’m Frank LoMonte, executive director of the Student Press Law… Continue reading May 2016 Podcast: Auditing college’s Equity in Athletics disclosure reports

Rachel de Leon, associate producer with Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, explains how the CIR's RevealNews.org uncovered exaggerations in colleges' claims about equal athletic opportunities for women, and how reporters can use federal disclosure forms to break stories on their own campuses. Frank LoMonte: I’m Frank LoMonte, executive director of the Student Press Law… Continue reading May 2016 Podcast: Auditing college's Equity in Athletics disclosure reports

New Voices Senate floor debate in Illinois.

Marcelo Rochabrun, reporting fellow with ProPublica and former editor-in-chief of the Daily Princetonian, discusses his investigation into the 990 forms of Princeton's eating clubs.  Frank LoMonte: We are reading a lot these days about the concept of grit and about how educational institutions can best prepare their young people for the workplace and for the real… Continue reading April 2016 Podcast: Using 990 forms to uncover campus secrets