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Virginia student confronts school board to end prior review — Q & A with Kate Karstens

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Kate Karstens is a senior at George Mason High School in Falls Church, Virginia and the editor of their student newspaper, The Lasso. Since last March, she’s been on a campaign to codify press freedom in her school district by changing her school board’s policy of prior review. I spoke with her about her passion… Continue reading Virginia student confronts school board to end prior review — Q & A with Kate Karstens

February 2017 Podcast: Taking the Temperature of Student Journalism

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As a student at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Simon Galperin decided to look backward – to his journalism education at Rutgers University in New Jersey, where he co-founded Muckgers, an independent investigative and storytelling outlet covering the university. Seeking to gauge the strength and nature of the college journalism ecosystem, he conducted a survey… Continue reading February 2017 Podcast: Taking the Temperature of Student Journalism

If you’re a feminist (and you should be), be intersectional

Fellow Sophie Gordon talks to two student journalists who stopped by the SPLC booth at the national journalism convention in November 2016.
Sophie Gordon talks to student journalists while at the SPLC booth at the national journalism convention in November 2016.
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On Jan. 21 — just one day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration — people who identify as women (who I will from now on collectively call women because that is what they are) across the world participated in #WomensMarch(es). Women in Paris and London stood united with women in the United States in saying that… Continue reading If you’re a feminist (and you should be), be intersectional

Now is the time for New Voices
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It’s time to cure Hazelwood. In 1988, the Supreme Court handed down a 5-3 ruling that hurt student journalism publications everywhere. The landmark Hazelwood v Kuhlmeier decision determined that school administrators could exercise prior restraint if a school can present a reasonable educational justification for its censorship. This decision stifles high school and middle school… Continue reading Now is the time for New Voices