Tag: Winter 2009-10

In the age of social media, school Internet filters can limit high school journalists.

There are legitimate policy arguments for drafting and applying shield laws with reasonable limitations to guard against their abuse to frustrate justice. But we should be beyond the point where your authenticity as a journalist is defined by who signs your paycheck. Shield laws are about protecting the integrity of the newsgathering process, and unpaid students increasingly work at the heart of that process.

Whether and how to cover suicide cases in a high school publication presents a dilemma. The newsworthiness of such a topic is clear, but the effects of reporting on such an unfortunate event to an age group in the height of self-discovery can be brutal, unlike many other stories in the publication. There is no simple "right" or "wrong" answer to covering suicide.

A confusingly worded federal law has many schools worried about the amount of student information they can legally put on their Web sites.

Lucrative nature of high school sports leads to limitations on news media

Advertisements are an economic necessity for many student newspapers, but when their content is controversial, student editors may wonder whether the revenue is worth the headache.

Should charter schools be exempt from California's student free expression law? 

As ambitious college reporters and editors aim to build resumes and do it all on campus, student newspapers must fight to keep conflicts of interest out of their newsrooms.

A press pass is the ticket to successfully covering sports news for any college media outlet. But restrictions attached to passes by athletic conferences have caused concern among journalists.