Peter Bobkowski, assistant professor of journalism at the University of Kansas, discusses his research on the impact of scholastic journalism experience on students' readiness for civic participation.Frank LoMonte: Hi everyone, and welcome to another installment of the Student Press Law Center’s monthly podcast, a run down of developments of importance to the rights of student… Continue reading November 2015 Podcast: The link between high school journalism and civic participation
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As student protests heat up, journalists face access issues
At Smith College, student activists banned reporters from covering their protest unless the reporters agreed to endorse their mission. Media bans have been common in the wave of protests sweeping college campuses.
Law journal honors Mary Beth Tinker, devotes issue to free speech in schools
SPLC's Frank LoMonte and Mike Hiestand wrote articles for the law journal about free speech in schools today, particularly what they see as a worrisome trend of schools' control of students' online speech.
Former Mississippi student who was suspended for posting rap song online has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court will now have to decide whether to hear its first case on student off-campus online speech.
After being punished with a funding cut after an investigative story runs in Memphis, pressure from SPLC helps get money restored
"When SPLC attorneys drafted legal responses to the university's actions of seemingly harassing a student for reporting unfavorable news and cutting the newspaper's funding based on its content, the university president at the time started to listen."
High school paper in Wisconsin slapped with a prior review policy after publishing a story on rape culture; SPLC’s model guidelines soon replace policy
"The SPLC helped me realize that what I was fighting for was important. With their support, we were able to overturn the prior review policy and return Cardinal Columns to the rightful hands of student journalists."
High school journalists in Pa. punished for refusal to print the word “Redskins;” SPLC joins journalists in protracted struggle against retaliation, censorship
Editors of Neshaminy High School’s student newspaper, The Playwickian, decided to ban the school’s mascot name, the Redskins, from publication on the grounds that it was a racist term.
Student journalists at Loyola ban outside media from taking pictures in student protesters’ “healing space”
Student staffers of the Black Tribune, a publication run by Loyola students of color, would not allow outside media to take pictures inside the protesters' arm-locked circle, following a demonstration against racism on campus.
Conference honors 25th anniversary of Clery Act, stresses need for more transparency
Educators, campus police officers, victim advocates and attorneys gathered in Washington, D.C. Friday to celebrate 25 years of the federal campus crime law and talk about what's next.
Fraternity member accused of stealing 250 papers, asking students to help him
Student editors at Northwest Missouri State University were distributing papers at the student union when a student identified as a fraternity member ran by and grabbed a bundle of 50 newspapers.