{"id":22,"date":"2013-03-04T15:13:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T20:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www3.law.harvard.edu\/journals\/hlpr\/?p=22"},"modified":"2015-10-02T15:22:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T15:22:06","slug":"protecting-student-journalism-that-serves-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/lpr\/2013\/03\/04\/protecting-student-journalism-that-serves-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting student journalism that serves democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the front end of an essay I co-authored with\u00a0<\/em>Frank LoMonte, the executive director of the Student Press Law Center in Washington, D.C. \u00a0The essay appeared in full Friday in The Atlantic.\u00a0<\/em>Follow me\u00a0@jonathanwpeters<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

This is not your father\u2019s journalism industry.<\/p>\n

NBC News has a\u00a0Storify page<\/a>, the\u00a0New York Times<\/i>\u00a0has a\u00a0Tumblr<\/a>, and PBS has a\u00a0Pinterest board<\/a>. The Associated Press has\u00a0built a partnership<\/a>\u00a0with dozens of news companies to collect royalties from aggregators.\u00a0The Wall Street Journal<\/i>\u00a0has produced\u00a0original videos<\/a>\u00a0for YouTube, and the people formerly known as the audience can submit photos to CNN through its\u00a0iPhone app<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is a journalism industry in which the production of news is widely dispersed and the traditional media are reinventing themselves to survive in the digital world. The ongoing challenge, as clearly\u00a0expressed in 2009<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0Columbia Journalism Review<\/i>, is to preserve independent reporting while the economic foundation of newspapers, the chief source of such reporting, continues to erode.<\/p>\n

While the traditional media adapt to their changing circumstances, student journalists are playing a more vital role than ever before. Campus-based publications, and student collaborations with professional news outlets, are filling in gaps created by the traditional media\u2019s decline. They\u2019re informing the public, covering the states and towns where the schools are located (and beyond). These reporting enterprises come in all shapes and sizes.<\/p>\n

Arizona State University operates the\u00a0Cronkite News Service<\/a>, which allows students to cover public affairs in Washington, D.C., and Phoenix. Ohio University operates the\u00a0Statehouse News Bureau<\/a>, which offers students a paid internship to cover public affairs in Ohio\u2019s capital city. Boston University operates the\u00a0New England Center for Investigative Reporting<\/a>, which teams up professional journalists with student researchers to produce long-form stories. And nearly every school in the nation is home to a student newspaper that covers local and campus affairs, many of which have an impact far beyond campus borders.<\/p>\n

For years, there\u2019s been a growing consensus that journalism programs need to transform themselves into teaching hospitals for news production. Consider these conclusions and recommendations \u2026<\/p>\n

Click here to read more (The Atlantic)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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