Advice to the new fellows: Work hard, work early, believe in your skillets; Learn everything you can from your Active Voice mentors; Revel in every moment because it will fly by before you know it. Despite what I have learned, I am going to break an important journalism code and begin with a cliche: All… Continue reading Signing Off: Nashwa Bawab
Throughout my first presentation as an Active Voice Fellow, the unrelenting portrait of a young, female audience member invaded my mind: her eyes blinking in a foreign yet caustic visual Morse code, nose sharply angled up. The taste of pin drop silence parched my throat, and a tingling humidity perched on my skin, as if… Continue reading Signing Off: Sindhu Ravuri
The Torch, the award-winning student newspaper at St. John’s University in Queens, New York is using crowdfunding to pay off debts rather than give up its decades-long status as an independent publication.
After recently graduating from Kearney High School, Joey Slivinski and Thomas Swartz opened their yearbooks to find blank spaces under their portraits. Both submitted witty quotes about their gay identities, only to find that the school scrubbed them from the pages.
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATIONSECTION OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICESTANDING COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC EDUCATIONSECTION OF STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAWREPORT TO THE HOUSE OF DELEGATESRESOLUTIONRESOLVED, That the American Bar Association urges all state, local, territorial, and tribal legislative bodies to enact statutes and school districts to adopt policies that:rigorously protect the ability of student journalists at… Continue reading AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION SECTION OF CIVIL
In a major development in the movement for student press freedom, the American Bar Association has announced its support for New Voices legislation.
When a professor was pulled out of a lecture and suddenly stopped teaching his other classes, Alex Nemec, a student journalist at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, filed records requests to find out why. Nemec has encountered two hurdles to accessing records, the first imposed by the University and the second by the professor himself.
The Kentucky attorney general will appeal a ruling from a circuit court’s determination that he does not have authority to review records the University of Kentucky has kept confidential following sexual harassment and sexual assault allegations.
A citizen activist lost his First Amendment case against a Missouri police department when a federal court held that there is no constitutional right to insist on access to photograph government activities. The ruling does nothing, however, to undermine the well-established right to photograph police when they're doing official business in public.
Government officials who engage in viewpoint-based "moderation" of social media comments run the risk of First Amendment liability, a new Virginia court ruling determines.