The Student Press Law Center is here all year long to help students obtain needed records, but in honor of Sunshine Week, we are excited to announce the nominations for the Student Freedom of Information Award, as well as several terrific (and fun) resources.
On February 28, student journalists and other supporters of student press freedom testified in the Missouri Senate Progress and Development Committee in support of SB1099, which would establish the Cronkite New Voices Act to protect freedom of the press in school-sponsored media. Students who testified included Anna Colletto, a 2023 Student Press Freedom Day co-chair.… Continue reading SPLC submits testimony on Missouri New Voices bill
Two California student journalists and a student media adviser have sued their district and administration, accusing them of “bullying, threatening and coerc[ing]” the student newspaper staff to “save face” and then retaliating by cutting a journalism class and removing the adviser.
Student journalists and other supporters of student press freedom will testify today at a public hearing of the Nebraska legislature’s Judiciary Committee in support of LB 1071, a bill that would ensure student press freedom.
Student Press Freedom Day 2024 is Thursday, Feb. 22. Learn more at studentpressfreedom.org.
Student journalists undertake responsible journalism and hold the powerful accountable. They are often the only reporters covering their campuses or even their communities, and they can provide a prospective no one else can. Yet their press freedom isn’t always guaranteed by the First Amendment. Here are three ways you can help student journalists by supporting… Continue reading Three Ways You Can Support Student Press Freedom
Student journalists undertake responsible journalism and hold the powerful accountable. They are often the only reporters covering their campuses or even their communities, and they can provide a prospective no one else can. Yet their press freedom isn’t always guaranteed by the First Amendment.
The Brechner Freedom of Information Project analyzed the financial and editorial independence of newsrooms at four-year colleges with 5,000 or more students enrolled.
The Student Press Law Center submitted written testimony Feb. 9 in response to proposed amendments to Wisconsin’s SB 571. SPLC strongly supports the original legislation but urged the state Senate Committee on Universities and Revenue to reconsider amendments that would significantly undermine the bill’s protection of student journalists. The legislation, based on SPLC’s model bill,… Continue reading SPLC submits testimony on Wisconsin New Voices amendments
Va. Code Ann. § 23.1-401.2 Public college student journalists; freedom of speech and the press. A. As used in this section: “Institution-sponsored student media” means any material that is prepared, substantially written, published, or broadcast by a student journalist at a public institution of higher education under the direction of a student media adviser and distributed or… Continue reading Virginia College Press Freedom Act
