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Comment on Research project explores news coverage framing of off-campus speech litigation by Megan Fromm

Megan Fromm — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:56:09 +0000

Great work, Trevor! I can’t wait to read the full study. This kind of research is tedious but really provides interesting perspectives on an important subject. Cheers to scholastic press research!

Comment on Prior review, censorship have no educational value: resolutions by Board votes on endorsement of IJEA resolution

Board votes on endorsement of IJEA resolution — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:58:02 +0000

[...] JEA board of directors voted 15-0 on April 16 to endorse this resolution from the Illinois Journalism Education [...]

Comment on Prior review, censorship have no educational value: resolutions by Board approves resolution regarding censorship

Board approves resolution regarding censorship — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:57:47 +0000

[...] The JEA board of directors on April 16 passed 15-0 this resolution regarding the Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier anniversary/First Amendment and censorship authority. [...]

Comment on Join the resolution by Kate Klonowski

Kate Klonowski — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 02:23:09 +0000

This is a fantastic idea! I will strongly encourage our partner schools to do this and have our joint publication adopt it as well. Thanks!

Comment on Tweet 7: Know copyright guidelines to avoid issues by Mark Webber

Mark Webber — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:55:43 +0000

The “face misconceptions about who owns student  work” and “Back  to school  check list: who owns what” are things I’d not seen at splc.org. I’m glad they’re part of this list. Thank you!
Mark

Comment on Hazelwood’s impact more than a memory by Jane Blystone

Jane Blystone — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:40:16 +0000

Excellent job Gary Lindsay, Janet Levin, Nick Ferentinos, Wayne Dunn – great leaders in scholastic journalism.

Comment on Prior review, censorship have no educational value: resolutions by Nation’s largest journalism teaching organization condemns Hazelwood censorship « Student Press Law Center

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:36:38 +0000

[...] another group of journalism educators is speaking out against censorship of scholastic journalism. On Tuesday, the Journalism Education Association’s board of directors unanimously approved a [...]

Comment on Ethics by any other name: Why process is more important than verbiage by Spencer Buell

Spencer Buell — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:45:55 +0000

So, we ended up running a bunch of those letters to the editor in the paper, which, we hope, sent the message that we took the community’s criticism seriously. I also addressed the issue via a short letter from the editor ( https://thegatepost.com/letter-from-the-editor-6/ )

Our staff, as you can imagine, have been talking about this a lot over the last few weeks, and I’ve been able to have conversations with some of the students who were involved. Basically, the controversy seems to have blown over, but we’re now looking at how we can revamp our front page to avoid any future problems.

First off, we have a “feature photo” we run every week on the front page, and we hear all the time that it isn’t clear whether the picture is related to that week’s front page stories (it usually isn’t). We’re going to try out giving those photos little hammer headlines and putting them in a shaded box to help distinguish them from the rest of our coverage.

We’ve also instituted a “red flag” policy for especially sensitive stories – deaths, sexual assaults, etc. and will make our best effort to make sure any of our front page articles that week collide with one another in the way these ones did. Drawing out the front page on a whiteboard every week, rather than just picking our top 3 or 4 stories, helps us get a sense for what the issue will look like, and, additionally, what kinds of conclusions our audience might draw by mistake.

If we could do things differently, we would have recognized that our long-term project needed to be held one week because it would clash with a sensitive, shorter-term piece. So for the future, we’ll be doing that, plus we’ll have a new front page layout to reduce the likelihood of any unfortunate layouts.

If and when the paper gets stolen, vandalized, etc. again, I want it to be because our coverage was too GOOD (a real hard-hitting investigative piece exposing something controversial), not because our layout, planning and foresight weren’t where they should have been.

Hope this is useful!

Comment on Ethics by any other name: Why process is more important than verbiage by MFromm

MFromm — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:58:31 +0000

Hi Spencer,
Thanks for sharing this experience–it sounds like you guys have been quite busy with all this! Your editorial does a great job detailing exactly the expense, both personal and financial, that goes into creating a student newspaper. Even better are your suggestions for how students can respond to your paper without vandalism!

We’d love to hear more about whatever followup conversations your staff had regarding the placement of the two stories that first started the incident. Would the staff make a different choice next time? How can you explain to your student body that not all news on the front page is related?

Thanks for taking the time to read and respond!

Comment on Ethics by any other name: Why process is more important than verbiage by MFromm

MFromm — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:51:07 +0000

Hi Sheila,
We hope sometime this summer or fall, although we still have some work to do on design and format. Lots of options are on the table, including a website and possible ebook, so we’ll keep you posted!