It is crucial that all women — but particularly the most vulnerable — are able to find allies of all genders to trust, support and listen to them.
Female journalists are disproportionately targeted for sexual harassment and assault
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The status of women of color in the U.S. news media 2018
A look at where women journalists of color are — and aren’t — in legacy print, radio, TV, and digital news.
Re-imagining a 21st Century Democracy
Swearer Center, Brown University, (academic journal, starting on page 66). (Fall 2018). Co-authored by Frank LoMonte, Sophie Gordon and Peter Bobkowski. “Journalism-related activities, such as working on the school newspaper or the news website, engage students in current community issues and can nourish a lifetime of civic engagement.”
Hard News. Angry Administration. Teenage Journalists Know What It’s Like.
High schools across the country have pushed back this year against student journalists who have reported on sensitive subjects, like the reaction to school shootings and adolescent sexuality.
Gianficaro: New Jersey Legislature to help stamp out student censorship
The Burlington County Times, Willingboro Township, N.J. (July 22, 2016). Bill Gurden’s students won journalism awards; he won their respect. Under his tutelage, The Stinger became a model student newspaper, spawning journalism majors at colleges and universities throughout the country. Right up to the moment the school administration removed him as adviser in the spring of 2014.
Bill would give student journalists more freedom, prevent schools from censoring content
The Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader (4/1/2016). “[Student journalists] are going to have the expanded opportunity to go after the stories they are really passionate about,” said Dave Davis, adviser to Hillcrest High School’s HTV Magazine.
Newly proposed bill could protect student journalists
The State News, East Lansing, Mich. (3/23/2016). “Understanding the ethical responsibilities that come with the First Amendment is important and ought to be encouraged at both the high school and collegiate level,” said Michigan State journalism professor Sue Carter.
Bills to protect student journalists from censorship more popular in conservative states.
The College Fix (3/21/2016). “The people [of North Dakota] just got it right away … regardless of party, regardless of ideology,” said Frank LoMonte.
Freedom of Speech, Press, Open Meetings Legislation Proposed in Md.
Southern Maryland Online (3/2/2016). The First Amendment is “being thrown out the window” under the Hazelwood decision, said Gary Clites, president of the Maryland-D.C. Scholastic Press Association.
Talking Politics – Walter Cronkite New Voices Act
Mid-Missouri Public Radio (2/24/2016). “Just to think that that would happen to someone who’s put so much work into a story that they’re told, ‘No, your students aren’t mature enough to hear this,’ I think that’s ridiculous and I think this bill is really important to protecting high school journalism rights,” said Abby Kempf, a senior at Rock Bridge high school, and one of the editors-in-chief of the school’s journalism program.