Ending a nine-year legal battle, a federal judge dismissed a suit last week that aimed to declare the Ithaca City School District’s 2005 publications policy unconstitutional and to prevent the district from reimplementing it in the future. The judge’s dismissal ends a process that Robert Ochshorn and seven other 2005 Ithaca High School graduates who worked at the student newspaper, The Tattler, began in 2005.
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Records on ‘blood bucket’ challenge protest are protected by FERPA, Ohio U. representative says
Records on ‘blood bucket’ challenge protest are protected by FERPA, Ohio U. representative saysThe attorney for one of four Ohio University students facing misdemeanor charges for allegedly disrupting a student senate meeting has requested records from the university regarding the incident, but an OU representative claims those records are protected by federal law. University police… Continue reading Records on ‘blood bucket’ challenge protest are protected by FERPA, Ohio U. representative says
After WRAS deal, student opportunities under Georgia Public Media provide no unique benefits, former staffer says
A partnership with Georgia Public Media will not provide any specific benefits for student deejays at the university, members of the WRAS-FM student radio station said after a meeting with officials from the university and the state media network.
Muting the airwaves: As colleges sell off their radio stations, student deejays grapple with their identities in the digital age
College radio stations, home to aspiring broadcast journalists and deejays, have reached an existential crisis — whether or not terrestrial radio, or analog, benefits their organizations any longer.
October 2014 podcast: High school journalists’ voices ‘Still Captive’
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Rebecca Tallent and David Burns of the Society of Professional Journalists discuss their sequel to Jack Nelson's book Captive Voices.Frank LoMonte: The Student Press Law Center celebrated a very big birthday this fall, turning 40 years old since our founding in 1974. The origin of the Student Press Law Center dates back to a landmark… Continue reading October 2014 podcast: High school journalists’ voices ‘Still Captive’
October 2014 podcast: High school journalists' voices 'Still Captive'
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Rebecca Tallent and David Burns of the Society of Professional Journalists discuss their sequel to Jack Nelson's book Captive Voices.Frank LoMonte: The Student Press Law Center celebrated a very big birthday this fall, turning 40 years old since our founding in 1974. The origin of the Student Press Law Center dates back to a landmark… Continue reading October 2014 podcast: High school journalists' voices 'Still Captive'
Civil liberties groups call on Tenn. school district to revise 'unconstitutional' tech policy
A Tennessee school district’s technology and internet policy, which allows school administrators to examine electronic devices students bring from home and monitor communications or data transmitted on the district’s network, violates students’ rights to free speech and protection against “suspicionless searches,” The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee and the Electronic Frontier Foundation wrote in a letter to the district Monday.
Investigation finds more than 700 newspapers in Pepperdine U. dorm room, stolen for prank
The Department of Public Safety at Pepperdine University is accusing three students of taking more than 700 copies of six issues of the student newspaper. Two of the students, the paper's adviser said, admitted they took the papers for a prank on a friend.
Arizona State U. student senator impeached after speaking with media
Isabelle Murray, the impeached Tempe Undergraduate Student Government senator, spoke to a reporter of The State Press, the student newspaper at the university, earlier in October about a bill she was working on regarding black face paint at football games.
Protections for student journalists in critical care
An eye-popping July 2014 report from the Pew Research Journalism Project, “America’s Shifting Statehouse Press,” documents the near-extinction of the statehouse press corps across America: Since 2003 – and state governments were under-covered even then – the number of full-time reporters working in state Capitols is down 35 percent.