What did you take away from Fall Press Day 2010? Please reflect on what you learned or what you found most valuable by leaving a comment on this post. Just click on the comment link at the bottom of this post. On the next page scroll down, fill in your first name, last initial, and [...]
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As a new school year begins, the Student Center is preparing to connect students, teachers, advisers, and professionals in new and exciting ways. Our vision is to create an online community committed to supporting student journalists and furthering student press rights. This is a site where students can pose questions and ideas to one another along with [...]
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Do students have the right to turn down a drug and alcohol urine or swab test while they are on school property or at a school function or event? It seems that there are many different views and opinions on this, but what is the correct answer? Many questions are left unanswered: Why the need [...]
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Yesterday, Valerie Streit from CNN wrote a story about how the recession is squeezing recycling programs. In Atlanta, Georgia people are putting out their recycling to be picked up and it is not getting picked up. Citizens are being forced to house their recycling in their garages and/or driving it themselves to the recycling [...]
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According to Journalism.Org, there are 9 elements of journalism that news mediums and journalists should try to follow. These 9 elements embody what journalism in its truest and purest form should be and what journalists should follow to provide a fair and accurate story and the elements are: Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth Its first [...]
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For one of my articles I wrote about offering contraceptives in high schools. While interviewing a vice principal, I felt that she was not supportive of me writing about this conterversial subject. I was wondering how your high school deals with subjects such as this in the school’s newspaper? Does your administration try to discourage you from [...]
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A group project from my Journalism 1 class at Hunterdon Central focuses on today’s changing media and what it might look like in the future. One of the factors we study is the rise in citizen journalism or the idea that with today’s digital tools anyone can be a journalist. In fact most of the large online news sites actively solicit material [...]
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A new MTV series follows students who are work on their high school newspaper. The first episode of The Paper airs April 14 at 10:30 PM. It could be interesting on a number of levels. Is the depiction of what the staff goes through similar to your own experiences? What are some of the storytelling [...]
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