recommendedsites

Recommended journalism sites
for administrators

• JEA’s (Journalism Education Association) Scholastic Press Rights Commission Web site
http://jeapressrights.org
This site has recently been revised and updated to emphasize what JEA calls the six principles of responsible journalism. These principles focus on developing professional standards of journalism in all student media reporting. Core to the principles is an Adviser Code of Ethics and emphasis on accurate, thorough and complete reporting.

• Student Press Law Center
http://splc.org
Along with legal guidance for advisers, students and administrators, this site provides exceptional teaching resources to give students practical background in press law. Paired with the JEA site, students and advisers get comprehensive legal instruction to help them more fully appreciate their freedoms and apply their responsibilities.

• Center for Scholastic Journalism, Kent State University
http://jmc.kent.edu/csj
This site provides access to journalism certification standards in all 50 states, highlights schools that practice being designated forums for student expression and explains the school’s online master’s program in journalism education. The site also has up-to-date information on Ohio workshops for students, advisers and administrators and the latest educational programs in journalism.

• ASNE’s (American Society of Newspaper Editors) High School Journalism site
http://hsj.org
This site has just about everything: from hosting publications’ Web sites to compiling literally hundreds of lesson plans. Materials on the site are designed for students, administrators and advisers. ASNE and The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation offers all-expense-paid two-week intensive journalism seminars each summer. Thirty-five journalism teachers are accepted at each of five universities to learn or reinforce their journalism skills and knowledge. Application forms are available on the site.

• The Poynter Institute
http://poynter.org
The Institute is known as the working journalist’s university or think-tank, a school for “journalists, future journalists and teachers of journalists.” It offers seminars and training at its St. Petersburg, Florida, campus and extensive information and readings on its Web site.

• NewsU
http://newsu.org
Sponsored by Poynter, this site started out as online seminars for commercial journalists. It still is, but now it has expanded its outreach to include college and high school students and instructors. Best of all, most of the courses are free and anyone can register. These courses allow you to work at your own speed and are perfect for supplementing in-class and text instruction. They have engaging graphics and situations and cover a myriad of journalistic skills. A relatively new part of NewsU is a summer Boot Camp for advisers, three weeks of online instruction at minimal cost to study basics of journalism education.

• Poynter High
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=88
Developed by former high school editor and commercial journalist Wendy Wallace, this site takes many of Poynter’s teaching concepts and re-directs them to scholastic journalists. The site develops story ideas, looks at award-winning examples of scholastic journalism and offers plenty of tips on reporting, writing, editing and design.

• J-ideas
http://jideas.org
This program was designed to develop and encourage excellence in scholastic journalism through activities, programs, distance learning classes and other outreach. Its goal is to expand First Amendment and civic awareness in schools. It also offers an online course for administrators through Ball State University.


	Recommended journalism sites for administrators • JEA’s (Journalism Education Association) Scholastic Press Rights Commission Web site http://jeapressrights.org This site has recently been revised and updated to emphasize what JEA calls the six principles of responsible journalism. These principles focus on developing professional standards of journalism in all student media reporting. Core to the principles is an Adviser Code of Ethics and emphasis on accurate, thorough and complete reporting. • Student Press Law Center http://splc.org Along with legal guidance for advisers, students and administrators, this site provides exceptional teaching resources to give students practical background in press law. Paired with the JEA site, students and advisers get comprehensive legal instruction to help them more fully appreciate their freedoms and apply their responsibilities. • Center for Scholastic Journalism, Kent State University http://jmc.kent.edu/csj This site provides access to journalism certification standards in all 50 states, highlights schools that practice being designated forums for student expression and explains the school’s online master’s program in journalism education. The site also has up-to-date information on Ohio workshops for students, advisers and administrators and the latest educational programs in journalism. • ASNE’s (American Society of Newspaper Editors) High School Journalism site http://hsj.org This site has just about everything: from hosting publications’ Web sites to compiling literally hundreds of lesson plans. Materials on the site are designed for students, administrators and advisers. ASNE and The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation offers all-expense-paid two-week intensive journalism seminars each summer. Thirty-five journalism teachers are accepted at each of five universities to learn or reinforce their journalism skills and knowledge. Application forms are available on the site. • The Poynter Institute http://poynter.org The Institute is known as the working journalist’s university or think-tank, a school for “journalists, future journalists and teachers of journalists.” It offers seminars and training at its St. Petersburg, Florida, campus and extensive information and readings on its Web site. • NewsU http://newsu.org Sponsored by Poynter, this site started out as online seminars for commercial journalists. It still is, but now it has expanded its outreach to include college and high school students and instructors. Best of all, most of the courses are free and anyone can register. These courses allow you to work at your own speed and are perfect for supplementing in-class and text instruction. They have engaging graphics and situations and cover a myriad of journalistic skills. A relatively new part of NewsU is a summer Boot Camp for advisers, three weeks of online instruction at minimal cost to study basics of journalism education. • Poynter High http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=88 Developed by former high school editor and commercial journalist Wendy Wallace, this site takes many of Poynter’s teaching concepts and re-directs them to scholastic journalists. The site develops story ideas, looks at award-winning examples of scholastic journalism and offers plenty of tips on reporting, writing, editing and design. • J-ideas http://jideas.org This program was designed to develop and encourage excellence in scholastic journalism through activities, programs, distance learning classes and other outreach. Its goal is to expand First Amendment and civic awareness in schools. It also offers an online course for administrators through Ball State University.	For more explanation of what is responsible journalism, click here “A core value of being a journalist is to understand the role of the press in a free society. That role is to provide an independent source of information so that a citizen can make informed decisions. It is often the case that this core value of journalistic independence requires a journalist to question authority rather than side with authority. Thus, if the role of the press in a democratic society is to have any value, all journalists – including student journalists – must be allowed to publish viewpoints contrary to those of state authorities without intervention or censorship by the authorities themselves. Without protection, the freedoms of speech and press are meaningless and the press becomes a mere channel for official thought.” Dean v. Utica Community Schools 345 F.Supp.2d 799 [E.D. Mich. 2004]
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