Suicide is an important issue facing students on college campuses. Student journalists face unique challenges covering suicide, including ethical considerations related to headline wording, text descriptions, and sourcing. Health advocates, news outlets, and professional journalism organizations partnered to develop guidelines for responsible…

Although the First Amendment does not guarantee student press within public schools, it does help affirm the value of such opportunities to student communities. Private schools do not enjoy such constitutional support, but may have a more powerful tool closer to home: their own school mission statements. This study coded nearly 500 private K-12…

This study utilizes a national survey of college newspaper advisers to assess the internal workings of the college newspaper and its value as a pedagogical tool. It finds significant differences between the degree of audience and marketing coupling occurring within college and U.S. daily newspapers as well as differences in student autonomy among…

A Pennsylvania high school newspaper published an editorial in Fall 2013 announcing its decision to cease using the name of the school's sports teams, Redskins. That decision prompted the local school board to institute a policy giving administrators more editorial control over the newspaper. The controversy resonated with U.S. professional…

Support for student expression and First Amendment attitudes were measured among Missouri high school principals (n = 86). Findings demonstrated that the third-person effect was a significant predictor of these attitudes. The more principals perceived mass media to affect others over themselves, the less supportive they were for student free…

Surveys members of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication involved in scholastic journalism education to discover what they think are the responsibilities of high school newspaper advisers and where they lie along the "Hazelwood" continuum. Finds that the majority of respondents consider advisers as having the…

Considers, after surveying advisers and business managers at college/university student dailies, the extent to which these campus newspapers are instructionally independent or dependent of a university, both individually and collectively. Finds 12 dailies to be strongly independent of university control, one firmly curriculum-based, and 89 a mix…

Examines (in a national survey) administrators' perceptions of treatment by student reporters and how the respondents' views as sources differ. Discusses what journalism teachers, students newspaper advisers, and interested administrators might learn from these findings. Finds that the more often administrators served as sources, the higher was…

Surveys high school newspaper advisors, finding remarkably similar attitudes, in states with scholastic freedom of press laws and states without such laws, regarding scholastic press freedom, the way they exercise their duty in overseeing the newspaper, censorship and self-censorship, and controversy over newspaper content. Finds differences in…