A photographer at Pennsylvania StateUniversity's Daily Collegian was cleared of his remaining failureto disperse charge July 22 in a pre-trial motion after he was arrested last fallwhile covering a post-football-game riot.
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Great ‘Fair Use’ teaching tool — if you can get it…
The SPLC’s lawyers frequently lecture about the doctrine of “fair use,” and how – properly applied – it can enable journalists to sample lawfully from copyright-protected content.
Student files lawsuit after coach distributed private Facebook content
A Mississippi high school student is suing her school district after a teacher logged into the student's social networking account and distributed information that embarrassed her and led to her removal from the team.
Death By Cheeseburger book available again
SPLC friend and student press advocate extraordinaire Brian Schraum, who is working at the First Amendment Center in Nashville this summer, has created an electronic copy of the Freedom Forum's very readable 1994 book, Death By Cheeseburger: High School Journalism in the 1990s and Beyond, and made it available on the FAC's Web site as a free PDF download. The book, one of the most comprehensive looks at high school journalism ever published, has been out of print and generally unavailable for many years.While Brian accurately notes that much of the information is out of date, it still retains relevancy today both as a research guide and a historical marker of high school journalism in the 1990's.
Calif. bill would shine light on university foundations, auxiliary organizations
A bill that would provide better access toopen records at California's public, higher-education institutions hasbeen routed to the State Assembly Committee on Appropriations, though proponentsof the legislation say it should not cost any money.
July 2009 podcast: School board proses prior review rule
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Editors of Conestoga High School's national award-winning student newspaper, The Spoke, Henry Rome and Seth Zweifler discuss their school board's proposal to prior review content.
Pa. school board considers policy to prior review top high school journalism program
Student journalists in Pennsylvania are contesting a proposed policy they believe would force censorship of their award-winning student newspaper.
Principal drops suit against MySpace after students come forward for making fake profile
An Alaska high school principal has dropped a lawsuit against MySpace to determine who created a fake profile page in her name after the students who made the Web site confessed.
Md. media adviser's contract not renewed after students fail to meet with officials over stories
A Maryland university refused to renew a student media adviser's contract after students did not come forward with information they used in a series of stories detailing the misuse of student funds.
Campus Progress national conference discusses the changing world of journalism
This week I attended the Campus Progress National Conference, where panelists and guest speakers weighed in on some issues surrounding media and student press.Campus Progress, part of the Center for American Progress, works to help young people, including journalists, speak out on the issues they care about.