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News Literacy Project, Press Pass NYC and Student Press Law Center head to SXSW EDU stage
The News Literacy Project, Press Pass NYC and Student Press Law Center have been selected to present at SXSW EDU, one of the world’s most prominent education conferences. A student journalist will join a panel of nonprofit leaders for the session, “Think Like a Journalist: Building Civic Resilience.” Young people face unprecedented challenges in the… Continue reading News Literacy Project, Press Pass NYC and Student Press Law Center head to SXSW EDU stage
Lawsuit: UT-Dallas disciplined student ‘for practicing journalism’
Gregorio Olivares Gutierrez is suing administrators at the University of Texas at Dallas, alleging they violated his First Amendment rights when the university found he had discriminated against a student by editing their letter to the editor and publishing it with a disclaimer.
Levin: The open records stonewalling is working
Student journalist Joshua Levin writes that government officials have found a trick to keep the public from seeing what they are up to: They don’t have to always say no. They can simply make getting the records so difficult that nobody wants to try.