Archive for 'FERPA/Identifying Students'
We’ve Posted Our “Guide to Moving Online”
Posted on 31. Aug, 2011 by Aaron Manfull.
Tweet After more than 300 posts to the site, we decided it was time to compile some of them into a guide to help advisers and staffs with their journeys online. So, we created a “Guide to Moving Online.” You will find everything from Planning and Social Media to Comment and Publicity advice. The committee [...]
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Sample Combined Editorial Policy for High School Student Media
Posted on 11. Jul, 2011 by Aaron Manfull.
Tweet This is the sample combined editorial policy referenced in this previous post. This is a sample of an combined media editorial policy to be used as a starting point for scholastic journalism staffs. The policy combines newspaper, yearbook, web and broadcast mediums into one policy. The combined media policy was created by Aaron Manfull, [...]
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Schools should consider collapsing multiple editorial policies into one media policy
Posted on 11. Jul, 2011 by Aaron Manfull.
Tweet As scholastic media staffs begin integrating the web into their everyday routine, it’s becoming more and more evident that to be most effective, school programs should not be seen as individual mediums, but as a media program. As a result, editorial policies should begin to follow this shift in thinking. Instead of having a [...]
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Goodman Discusses the SPLC, FERPA and the Student Media
Posted on 08. Nov, 2010 by JEA Digital Media.
Tweet In a recent email on the JEA Listserv, Mark Goodman gave a nice, succinct explanation of FERPA and how it relates to the student media, summarizing content from the SPLC. FERPA is a blockade many staffs run into as administrators use it to say everything from photos can’t run online to student names can’t [...]
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The three ‘P’s of online legal issues
Posted on 28. Jan, 2009 by JEA Digital Media.
Tweet Those thinking about expanding their student media outreach need to keep three concepts in mind: three Ps of online legal issues. Policy When you design editorial guidelines for your digital media, create them as equivalents with your print or broadcast media. You do not want separate and unequal designations of rights and responsibilities, especially [...]
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You don’t need permission to run photos in your web news publication
Posted on 28. Jan, 2009 by JEA Digital Media.
Tweet Do you need permission to run photographs in your print news publication? No? Then you don’t need it for online pictures either. Student journalists have every right to publish online photos they would otherwise use in their print publications. The fact that those pictures can be seen by a larger, potentially worldwide group is [...]
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Web and Print Legal guidelines are the same
Posted on 28. Jan, 2009 by JEA Digital Media.
Tweet The law as it applies to scholastic news Web sites comes down to one guideline: The courts make no distinction between print publications and their online counterparts. So many shareholders will tell you the law is different, that somehow the rules are altered for Web publications. Those shareholders – administrators, community members, etc. – [...]
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