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ADvISER UPDATE
n who are we?
The Dow Jones News Fund, a nonprofit
foundation supported by the Dow Jones
Foundation and other newspaper companies, encourages young people to consider
journalism careers.
n Adviser Update’s mission
Adviser Update, a newsletter published by
the Dow Jones News Fund for high school
journalism teachers and publications
advisers, is a free quarterly serving the
inexperienced as well as the veteran. It will
be the seminal free resource for these educators, a clearinghouse of practical, topical
information.
n Contacting the News Fund
Mail: P.O. Box 300,
Princeton, NJ 08543-0300
Phone: 609-452-2820
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Diane Cohn, director of finance
n Contacting Adviser Update
Please address all news items to
George Taylor, Adviser Update editor.
Mail: 200 North Lehigh St.,
Tamaqua, PA 18252
Phone: 570-668-4451
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Prior review high schools breeding new generation of fearful journalists
Successful alumni
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believes everything on the Internet is true, including that her
dumpy date is a French model? That’s Mariel Booth, a model
and actress living in Los Angeles who went to Northern HS in
Calvert County, Maryland. This spread is one in a series created for the school’s 40th anniversary that looked at successful
alumni in different careers. Aside from Booth, students contacted alumni in law enforcement, fire departments, the military and
other professions to look at the impact Northern grads have
had on their world.
Gary Clites, adviser
The Patriot Press
Northern HS, Owings, Md.
gclites@comcast.net
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n 1988, an article about divorce and teenage pregnancy was censored from The Spectrum student newspaper at Hazelwood East
HS in St. Louis, Mo. Twenty-five years later, student journalists still
wonder: will my story be next?
Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier stunted the freedom of young reporters
by giving school principals the ability to review and restrain articles
printed in school-sponsored publications. Though articles must meet
one of five criteria to be subject to censorship (they can’t be libelous,
for instance), some principals choose to review all content prior to
publication.
“I get angry about Hazelwood to this day,” First Amendment Center
President and CEO Ken Paulson said. “I wish I could turn back the
clock.”
And while many principals exercise their right to review articles,
most do not understand the implications of their actions.
“Young people who don’t have the right to freedom of the press
don’t embark on their careers with robust appreciation [for their freedom],” Paulson said.
Today, a generation of reporters will graduate high school without
ever having practiced their right to free speech and press, creating a
pool of applicants ill-prepared for careers in journalism.
Freedom critical
Joseph Russomanno is an associate professor at the Walter Cronkite
School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State
University. Since his transition from the newsroom to the classroom in
1994, Russomanno has taught his students that the First Amendment
is a critical component of good journalism.
“If you are teaching high school students how to be journalists,
lesson one is the free nature of it,” he said.
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Empowering students
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