Posts under ‘Legal Issues’

Via a thread on the CMA listserv, Frank LoMonte at the Student Press Law Center points out an SPLC podcast (I didn’t even know they were doing podcasts!) “in which legal experts Steve Zansberg and Robert Becker discuss how to minimize your risk of unpleasant confrontations with police when attending high-security events like the inaugural. […]

Image by Getty Images via DaylifeHere’s an interesting angle on the debate tonight at Belmont University in Nashville: Hack the Debate. I missed it the first two times around, but it might be easier to handle than CNN’s fever chart of undecided voters.
Current TV will broadcast the debate live and overlay debate-related Twitter messages in […]

This is ridiculous.
Two UK students and the photo adviser for the Kentucky Kernel were arrested at the Republican National Convention Monday afternoon in St. Paul, Minn., on charges of felony rioting. They were photographing the protesting of the convention.Photographers Ed Matthews and Britney McIntosh and adviser Jim Winn were three of 286 people arrested as […]

Image via Wikipedia Adam Hemphill writes about a recent case of an attempt by administrators to control online content for a college newspaper through a somewhat unique avenue - demanding access to the newspaper’s web server if the server is purchased by the university.
Seattle Pacific University’s Falcon student newspaper is in the crosshairs in the […]

Image via WikipediaThis is almost a week late, but I wanted to chime in on the topic of this month’s Carnival of Journalism, hosted by my good friend Doug Fisher of the University of South Carolina (USC of the East).
This months’ Carnival of Journalism features the following topic:
 What changes will need to be made in […]

The Daily Eastern News online edition has been getting some pretty nasty comments lately about a pair of stories with some controversy surrounding the topic matter. As a result, the editor, online editor, and a host of us advisers have been knocking around a new comment policy to attach to the comments on dennews.com (scroll […]

As an update to the previous post, below is the online archives policy of the GWHatchet. Thanks to Howard Marshall for the info, which is in their policy manual, but also not online yet.

The College Media Advisers members-only listserv has been buzzing lately about online archives policies. Apparently, everyone is discovering that their names show up in online searches, so every split infinitive and muddle-headed article they wrote for the college paper (not to mention “youthful indiscretions”) is coming back on them like heartburn after 8 pieces of […]

Along with March Madness, it’s a useful exercise to revisit the idiocy (yes, I don’t think that’s too strong a word) of the NCAA’s “blogging policy.”
Yes, for those of you who will be traveling to various sites to witness your men’s and women’s basketball teams compete for the championships - BEWARE! If you want to […]

This year, a slightly revised version of an earlier article I wrote was printed in Keeping Free Presses Free, a publication of the Student Press Law Center and CMA. Even though the printed publication is distributed at conventions, I think the information is worthwhile for a general audience who might not be able to attend, […]