Last spring, the University of Northern Iowa’s student newspaper reported about the administration’s unconstitutional prior restraint of media interviews given by resident assistants.
West Virginia state senators unanimously voted to pass Senate Bill 121, providing for the creation of the Student Journalist Press Freedom Protection Act. The bill is now in the House of Delegates for consideration.
Through casework at FIRE’s Student Press Freedom Initiative, we’ve identified a couple of trends that characterize the current landscape for the student press.
FIRE reported that the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh was subjecting student journalists to a convoluted process of contacting University Marketing and Communications in order to interview any campus staffer.
Each year on Student Press Freedom Day, FIRE celebrates the work of student journalists and support their right to freely explore the realities of college life
