LAWRENCE — When Lawrence Public Schools deployed spyware last fall, district officials said it would help them respond to a growing mental health crisis by monitoring students’ correspondence, photos, classwork and files. But student journalists were alarmed by the First Amendment problems inherent with the district’s implementation of the surveillance program, made by Gaggle. As […] The post ‘Unapologetically loud’: How student journalists fought a Kansas district over spyware and won appeared
(KRON) — Students from Mountain View High School have filed a statewide lawsuit against their school on Thursday alleging censorship. The lawsuit was filed after The Oracle, the student-ran newspaper, published a story concerning a supposed sexual assault case against a teacher in the school. In response, the school’s principal both brought down their story, […]
Student journalists and advocacy groups across the Philippines continued their protests against the University of Santo Tomas (UST), one of the oldest and largest Catholic universities in Asia, after it allegedly ordered its campus online media organization, TomasinoWeb, to delete a photo of their students in uniform entering a known convenience store.
Cindy Reves, the Hawai‘i state director for the Journalism Education Association, is being feted with the Torch of Light for her work securing 1st Amendment rights for student journalists.