Featured Student Coverage

The Student Press Law Center is dedicated to protecting and promoting the legal rights of student journalists so they can focus on what they do best: producing great journalism.

Student journalists of all ages serve a crucial role as watchdogs in their schools and communities, producing everything from insightful op-eds to breaking news to months-long records-based investigations. Here are just some examples of their incredible work:

  • Coronavirus Yearbook Spreads - The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the 2019-2020 academic year in unprecedented ways, leading to school closures across the country. Yearbook staffs face the unique challenge of not only documenting things like canceled sporting events, proms and virtual graduation ceremonies, but figuring out how to produce, sell and distribute yearbooks when normal processes aren’t possible. In… Continue reading Coronavirus Yearbook Spreads