General resources for Policy and Ethics
in Student Media
Resources listed here can provide additional information for ethics and staff manual development, as well as assistance for your journalism students and program.
Organizations
American Society of News Editors
Columbia Scholastic Press Association
Journalism Education Association
—Scholastic Press Rights Committee
National Association of Broadcasters
National Press Photographer’s Association
National Scholastic Press Association
Radio Television Digital News Association
Reporter’s Committee for Freedom of the Press
Society of Professional Journalists
Publications/Media
Principals Guide to Scholastic Journalism
Press Rights Minute, JEA Scholastic Press Rights Commission
Individuals
Ethics Codes
Articles and materials
Yearbook Ethical Guidelines, JEA Scholastic Press Rights Commission
Students, the First Amendment and the Supreme Court, JEA Scholastic Press Rights Commission
Fighting FERPA With Facts, JEA Scholastic Press Rights Commission
Foundations for Scholastic Journalism, JEA Scholastic Press Rights Commission
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Information of how colleges
restrict athletes’ social media use available
year-round for localization
Even though Sunshine Week 2014 has passed, you can still obtain information about how colleges regulate athletes’ speech using social media and whether colleges would release the information when asked.
This information is interesting and important on its own, but can also be localized for coverage in scholastic media.
The resources are available here and here.
The SPLC has licensed these pieces using a Creative Commons license to encourage republication.
Information in the packages was researched by students at the Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland and developed into the finished product by SPLC Publications Fellow Sara Gregory and journalism intern Rex Santus of Kent State University.
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