A bill to protect the free expression rights of student journalists died unexpectedly in the Indiana Senate today.
You Don’t Have The Votes: Indiana New Voices Legislation Dies in Senate
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The Booster Redux demonstrates the importance of anti-Hazelwood laws
This week, a group of student journalists in Pittsburg, Kan. achieved something that many their age only dream of: affecting real, tangible change in their community.
Super Tuesday: New Voices Edition
Tuesday came with a flurry of activity for states considering New Voices press freedom bills, including Vermont, Rhode Island and Missouri.
Arizona case demonstrates student journalists should be mindful of court recording rules
Experts are disputing an Arizona judge’s order to journalism students to delete audio recordings of a sentencing hearing.
Newspapers disappear from Virginia Tech campus after story updating murder trial
Somewhere between 900 to 1,200 newspapers were stolen from the Virginia Tech campus last week after a seemingly routine update to a local murder trial involving two former university students.
Supreme Court declines to hear free speech case
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a case that would have set precedent for student speech freedoms on social media.
Bringing the receipts: A response to the call for stories of student press censorship in Texas with Rachel Dearinger
New Voices of Texas page asked for stories of censorship students and advisers have faced in the Longhorn State, and Rachel Dearinger responded.
U.S. District Court affirms First Amendment right to complain in rejecting motion to dismiss former student's complaint
A case in Virginia has provided a welcome stand against retaliation for students exercising their First Amendment rights. On March 30, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia rejected a motion to dismiss by the defendants in Deegan v. Moore, finding that student Jennifer Deegan had been well within her rights to… Continue reading U.S. District Court affirms First Amendment right to complain in rejecting motion to dismiss former student's complaint
Rhode Island joins the race with New Voices bills in House and Senate
Two bills introduced in both the Rhode Island House of Representatives and Senate look to defend student journalists’ freedom of speech in school-sponsored and independent media.
March 2017 Podcast: Protecting College Media as a “Tailored Public Forum” with Nicole Comparato
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In 1988, Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier drastically curtailed the free press rights of K-12 students, but the decision didn't address collegiate press and has since been applied inconsistently to journalists in the post-secondary setting. This month, Executive Director Frank LoMonte interviews Nicole Comparato, the Editor-in-Chief of the University of Miami Law Review. Comparato proposed a better-defined public forum category for college press in… Continue reading March 2017 Podcast: Protecting College Media as a “Tailored Public Forum” with Nicole Comparato