Journalism advisers Valerie Kibler of Harrisonburg High School and Chad Rummel of Oakton High School discuss building community support for student publications.
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Student photojournalist’s Woodstock coverage featured at Newseum
If you’re in the D.C. area between now and October 31, make time to check out the Newseum’s recently opened “Woodstock at 40” photo gallery – not just for the story, but for the story behind the story.The back-story is that major news organizations largely underestimated the significance of the upstate New York music festival.
Retired Supreme Court justice warns of “dangerous state of civics knowledge”
If the various surveys from the last several years pointing out the deplorable state of American civics education and understanding weren't convincing enough, recently retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter — noting that two-thirds of Americans can't name all three branches of the American government — told those attending the American Bar Association's annual meeting this month that such ignorance is "dangerous" and "something to worry about."It is certainly something that we at the SPLC — where, working with students and school officials, we see the effects of such ignorance and lack of appreciation on a regular basis — have been talking about for years.
Montclair's student newspaper, government reach agreement
The student government at Montclair State University in Montclair, N.J., has agreed to amend its bylaws to better comply with the state's open meetings laws, ending a lawsuit filed by the student newspaper over alleged violations.
It’s not the coverage of the crime, it’s the coverage of the cover-up
What does it say when two of the three stories capturing first place in the AP Managing Editors First Amendment awards are about secrecy by public universities?
Calif. university student threatened after posting interview online
A California college student says a U.S. representative's staff member threatened her with arrest and legal action after she posted a recorded interview with the representative's press secretary online.
The positively true adventures of the allegedly Facebooking Mississippi cheerleader
When school authorities insisted they could control what students publish in campus newspapers and yearbooks, the public largely accepted this incursion into the First Amendment with a shrug.
MySpace not liable for assaults committed by network’s users
A recent California court ruling reemphasizes the breadth of protection that Web site operators enjoy under the federal Communications Decency Act – even where those aggrieved by the site’s editorial content claim that they are not arguing over content at all.In Doe II v.
N.D. school board replaces dismissed adviser
Recent actions by a North Dakota school board affirm the district does not plan to reinstate the high school newspaper adviser who was removed from the position in June over what the adviser said was a difference in philosophy.
College media group censures Md. university over adviser's firing
A national journalism organization censured aMaryland university July 23 after the school failed to renew the newspaper andyearbook adviser's contract.