Recent efforts prohibiting race-related diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives have informed localized public pushback narrating anti-equity campaigns. Emerging research and media accounts have largely focused on adults engaged with or against these efforts, with less attention on youth and their perceptions of these campaigns. To center…

The sixties and seventies were a time of great cultural, social, and political change in the United States. Events including civil rights demonstrations, anti-war protests, environmental movements, and gender rights sparked activism among students and young people across the country. In order for American youth to mobilize, they turned to…

This report concerns actions taken by the administration of Collin College to terminate the services of Professors Lora Burnett, Suzanne Jones, and Michael Phillips. The investigating committee found that the administration's actions involved "egregious violations" of all three faculty members' academic freedom to speak as citizens and…

Legal scholars rarely focus on student First Amendment rights, and general public understanding of the extent of these rights is vague at best. While media scholars have focused much attention on newspaper coverage of more mainstream issues, no notable attention has been given to examining the way news media cover student First Amendment rights.…

Describes the efforts of Jerome Barron in arguing for public access laws to the print media and presents the results of state and Supreme Court decisions regarding right-of-access laws. (RB)

Notes that despite recent United States Supreme Court decisions that have been unfavorable to the press, a First Amendment-based conditional privilege protecting the editorial process against governmental intrusion survives. (FL)

Examines the extent newspaper editorials in the twentieth century have supported the first amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and of the press. Finds that support of the first amendment was not always forthcoming in times of domestic crisis. (RS)

Examines some of the historical events that surrounded the freedom of the press conflict in the colonies, and especially in Boston. (RB)

Brenham, Texas, in 1866, was a newspaperman's town. In addition to "The Weekly Southern Banner," Brenham citizens read the "Lone Star," the "Christian Advocate," and the "Brenham Enquirer." The events of 1866 bring into sharp focus the struggle between the Fourth Estate and the federal government. This…

This journalism monograph deals with Josiah W. Gitt and his newspaper, "The Gazette and Daily," which existed from 1915 to 1970 and was referred to as "the voice in the wilderness" because of its stand on controversial issues. The monograph discusses the "Gazette and Daily," its views, Gitt's employees, the…

Discusses the vilification of John Adams and other Federalist leaders by the democratic-republican press of the 1790s. (RB)

This issue of "Journalism Monographs" deals specifically with the state of newspaper journalism in Sri Lanka, formerly the Dominion of Ceylon. The country's literacy rate is about 81 percent. The first section of this article is a general discussion of newspaper journalism in Sri Lanka, examining historical background and such press…

Originally presented as a speech at the Association for Education in Journalism convention, this article discusses the role of journalism educators, the importance of freedom of the press, and the need for good public relations by the press. (RB)

Surveys the status of freedom of the press in eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe, noting that although preliminary censorship was abolished in most of Europe by 1850, governments devised other means to influence what appeared in print. (GT)

In 1964 the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark decision, in the case of the New York Times v. Sullivan, that was hailed as a tremendous victory for the news media. This decision changed the law of libel by introducing a fourth requirement of "actual malice" in addition to three previously accepted requirements--publication,…