Taylor Publishing Company
www.tayloryearbooks.com
Taylor Customer Resource Center
www.yearbookstudio.com
Smart-Pay
www.smart-pay.com
MyYear
www.myyear.com
Florida Yearbook Seminar
Florida
Yearbook Seminar
Other Links
Association of Christian Schools International
www.acsi.org/acsi
Center for Scholastic Journalism
http://jmc.kent.edu/csj
Has information about certification in 50 states plus the District of Columbia. Set up as a map, this includes
summaries of what each state requires -- or doesn't require -- to teach
journalism plus links to each department of education web site.
College Media Consultants
www.collegemediaconsultants.com
College Media Instructors
www.collegemedia.org
Columbia
Scholastic Press Association (CSPA)
www.columbia.edu/cu/cspa
Dow Jones Newspaper Fund
djnewspaperfund.dowjones.com
Florida Scholastic Press Association (FSPA)
www.jou.ufl.edu/fspa
Freedom Forum
www.freedomforum.org
Journalism Education Association (JEA)
www.jea.org
JEA Scholastic Press Rights Commission
http://jeapressrights.org
Easily find everything from teaching materials to awards forms to statements about responsible journalism to
share with your staffs and administrators.
High School Journalism
www.highschooljournalism.org
National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA)
www.studentpress.org/nspa
Poynter Institute
www.poynter.org
Professional School Photographers Association (PSPA)
for digital data & image format guidelines
pspa.pmai.org
Southern Interscholastic Press Association (SIPA)
www.sc.edu/cmcis/so/sipa
Society for News Design (SND)
www.snd.org
Center for Scholastic Journalism
Are your student media forums for student expression by policy or practice? If so, would you like to be recognized as such and perhaps act as models so others can attain that status? The Center for Scholastic Journalism has developed a Google Map of schools verifying they have forum status.
If you qualify, let us know and we will add your information to the list. We know there are more forum schools out there than listed so far, but you have to take the next step. You will find an information forum below you can return to us and we will add you to the map. Be sure to note the definition of a forum listed below.
Thanks, and have a good year.
John Bowen
CSJ, JEA Press Rights Commission
If your student media are forums by policy or practice, please complete the following questions so we have thorough information for the Google Maps site and in case other advisers or principals would like more information to help their media become forums.
Please also note the following definition of a forum.
For student media to be designated as a public/student forum, the school must either:
Have a school board- or administrator-enacted policy stating students make final content decisions of protected speech*, or
Have a student media-generated policy declaring students make all final content decisions and also indicating/verifying that practice has been in effect at least two years, and there is no district or building policy that directly contradicts that practice. During that time, no adult, including the adviser, other faculty members, administrators or publication boards have dictated or changed content
In both situations, the advisers may, as part of the coaching process, offer advice and comment, but not make final content decisions
* The policy can still limit unprotected speech such as libel, obscenity and substantially disruptive material, but it must give other content control to the students
Name of school: Public ____ Private ____
Name of student media ___________________________________
Location (city and state)
Adviser:
Adviser contact info (phone and e-mail):
Media Web site (if available): _______________
Would you be willing to talk with others about your forum status?
____Yes
____No
The __________ is a forum by (repeat this section for each student media. Identify the student media by type, i.e. newspaper, broadcast, Web site, etc., and complete a form for each publication or media):
____ Policy (You must include a copy or link to your school boards policy)
____ Practice (Include a brief description of how your publication or media has operated as a forum and affirm there is no contradictory school policy. Include a copy of your publication or medias policy that describes who controls content)
____ Both
____ Length of time as a forum
Three other points:
- Please include a digital or PDF copy of your (or your boards) editorial policy
- If you can include a copy (print or broadcast or a link to your Web site) of reporting made possible by your forum status, please include that
- If you have stories to share about your forum status and how you attained it, please share those
- Did the current adviser have a hand in establishing the policy? If not, who did?
Thanks for your time and information. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact either me, jabowen@kent.edu or Katy Zupan at Kzupan@kent.edu. Please return this information to John Bowen at the above e-mail address
Michigan State University is offering an on-line class for journalism graduate credit this next semester.
