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"If he had stuck to telling stories about others and not himself, NBC anchorman Brian Williams would not be in the mess he is in this week."

"It took years, but I realized what I loved most in journalism was immersing myself in the lives of ordinary people, be it for a day or a week or for months, and telling their stories. Years ago, I started carrying around a William Faulkner quote in my wallet, from a speech he gave in 1950 accepting the Nobel Prize. He talked about how it was the writer's privilege to remind man of his finest qualities, his compassion and sacrifice, and to "help man endure by lifting his heart.""

"Four key U.S. Supreme Court decisions define student free expressions rights a school administrator should understand:"

"We need to create a place that affords privacy but retains accountability. One that's for more than just venting - a place to communicate problems and observations with an expectation of being heard. This could be the platform for a new journalism based on trusted values. John S. Knight, one of the two brothers who ran the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain (and created the Knight Foundation), understood that local journalism was more than about disseminating facts, or selling papers. He believed a newspaper editor ought to be the "conscience of a community." Journalism, at its best, is as much about listening as it is about publishing or broadcasting "

"I sat down with three students and two student activists to discuss whether corporal punishment in schools violates student rights. We also considered the state of student first amendment rights, the right of students to protest, and religion in schools. A recap of our conversation is posted above, and you can watch the whole Google+ Hangout here."

"Teens today might have a mixed reputation, but there's no denying their influence. They command millions of fans on Twitter and Vine, start companies with funds they raised on Kickstarter, steal scenes on TV's most popular shows, lead protests with global ramifications, and even-as of Friday-win Nobel Peace Prizes. But which ones rise above the rest? We analyzed social-media followings, cultural accolades, business acumen and more to determine this year's list (ordered from youngest to oldest)."

ALLENDALE - The Northern Highlands Regional High School Board of Education is expected to vote tonight on a revised policy governing student publications. The changes to the policy come in response to an incident in the spring in which a story written for the student newspaper, The Highland Fling, was censored by administrators. "I think we saw there were concerns last year," Board of Education President Barbara Garand said, adding that the policy has previously been revised a "couple of times." Among those concerns, she said, were the use of anonymous sources, which students would need to divulge to their adviser under the new policy. The school board approved a revised version of the censored story, written by Adelina Colaku, that was published in June after a three-month fight. The story detailed an ongoing dispute between former Superintendent John Keenan and nine tenured administrators and supervisors. The original version raised concerns over the use of anonymous sources. Michael Rightmire, whose job as director of technology had been eliminated in May and was a source in the article, agreed to go on the record for the revised version of Colaku's story. John Woodnick, the newspaper's faculty adviser for 10 years, stepped down from the Fling, but continues to teach English. Colaku said she is particularly concerned with the change in policy regarding anonymous sources. "The law says if an adviser knows who anonymous sources are and the administration wants to know, they can ask and the adviser is obligated to tell them," she said. "That would have been a great impediment on the procession of my story," Colaku said. Gina Palermo, editor in chief of the Fling in 2012-13, said she is concerned with the regulation that says school-sponsored publications should "foster a wholesome school spirit and support the best traditions of the school." Instead, she said student newspapers should be held to the same standards as professional media. "In a professiona

"A revised policy governing student publications at the Northern Highlands Regional School district would require students to divulge anonymous sources to their advisers, the Record reported."

"The Knights are part of a technology revolution that is transforming high school football nationwide and creating opportunities for companies that supply equipment and services. Many sources finance the sport, including school boards, parents and booster clubs. That all adds up."

"When we started doing online and especially with YouTube, people would say, "Young people don't care about international news. They don't have an attention span, so keep it short." Of course, that was all wrong. ...."

"A new conservative school board majority here in the Denver suburbs recently proposed a curriculum-review committee to promote patriotism, respect for authority and free enterprise and to guard against educational materials that "encourage or condone civil disorder." In response, hundreds of students, teachers and parents gave the board their own lesson in civil disobedience. On Tuesday, hundreds of students from high schools across the Jefferson County school district, the second largest in Colorado, streamed out of school and along busy thoroughfares, waving signs and championing the value of learning about the fractious and tumultuous chapters of American history."

"Much has changed in the world of journalism since the pyramid was constructed. New media platforms have been invented; business models have collapsed; arguments about who is a journalist abound. Pyramids may be tombs for dead kings, but they have a way of hanging around - for a long time. What you are about to experience is the most up-to-date version of the Pyramid of Competence. It contains 10 sections, one for each of the competencies. It begins with a description and a definition, followed by a list of imagined courses that could impart that competency, topped off with an example of an essay that could be used to cultivate that area of journalistic knowledge."

"In the era of distributed media, the relationship between journalist and audience is asymmetrical. As "audience" transmutes to "community," and the level of communication and information increases exponentially, as news becomes less ecclesiastical and more egalitarian, the role of the professional journalist is changing. Fortunately, there is still a role. Here are six roles the modern journalist should serve:"

"Watch the ad then let's pull it apart to see what video storytelling lessons we can adapt to news writing:"

"Here, Mr. LoMonte reviews students' First Amendment rights and what student journalists can do to lessen the chances that school administrators will try to restrict their publications."

"Today he provides some reasons, in the big picture, school journalism programs are valuable."

"In an e-mail to the Pennsylvania School Press Association that was obtained by The Inquirer, adviser Tara Huber said that she was suspended without pay for "willful neglect of duties and insubordination," and that the newspaper would have $1,200 docked from its student activity fund. The suspension came after Huber failed to prevent students from printing a copy of the paper in June in which they removed an op-ed article containing Redskin, a word they maintain is discriminatory.  Neshaminy principal Rob McGee did not return messages Tuesday afternoon. Huber, reached by telephone, said she could not discuss the matter further."

"This year, for the first time, American high school students show a greater overall appreciation for the First Amendment than do adults. More students than ever before say they are thinking about the First Amendment. Nine in 10 say people should be able to express unpopular opinions. Six in 10 say the press should not be censored by the government. What happened? One explanation: the digital age. In 2011, Connecticut researcher Ken Dautrich found "a clear, positive relationship" between social media use and support for free expression. He now finds the same link between digital media use and First Amendment support."

"The suit was eventually settled out of court, but the issue hasn't gone away, said Courtney Bowie, a senior staff attorney with the Racial Justice Program of the New York City-based civil-liberties advocacy group. "At the time, the case law wasn't quite as clear as it is today as to whether it is permissible for a school district to search the entire contents of a student's cell phone," Bowie said an in an interview. "In 2010, smartphones that could basically hold all the power and information of a computer were still a new thing, and [this issue] hadn't really been fleshed out in the courts yet." "

"The obsession with clicks is said to be responsible for a degradation of online content: clickbait headlines, listicles of best burger places, and videos of adorable kittens that do little to turn readers into enlightened citizens. Such a critical perspective is important and necessary. Yet my findings show that the effect of metrics is more complex than this. In my research, I analyze online news in two countries, the United States and France, which have different journalistic traditions. I rely on ethnographic methods, a mix of observations and interviews, to systematically compare what editors and writers say about their work with what they actually do when they are in front of their computers. After more than 400 hours of observation spent in the editorial departments of six online publications, as well as a hundred interviews with writers and editors, here is what I learned:"