Our newspaper was abolished for one undecent article last year, and now our administrators shut down the funding of our school newspaper. Can someone give suggestions?
2007-04-05 11:23:49 · 2 answers · asked by james_the_student 1 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
Create an online blog with the same name as your school paper, distribute flyers to let your classmates know it exists, maintain an e-mail list (and school exit-dates so that leaving students are automatically removed unless they opt to stay in) that you use to distribute the information periodically.
The best thing to do would be allowing others to post their own feedback and responses to individual articles. The down-side would be cyber-bullying by classmates. The school probably has enough BS to deal with without adding Internet police as one of their additional job duties, but as a school paper editor in-chief would do; delete unwanted, harassing or inappropriate messages.
2007-04-05 11:36:52 · answer #1 · answered by pSyCho jOe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The online blog idea is okay, but maybe you want a legitimate school newspaper.
To get a newspaper started up again, you will need to convince administrators that past abuses will not be repeated. The only way to ensure this is to have faculty oversight of the publication. If you can come up with a plan and faculty members willing to take responsibility, you may be able to get it going again.
If there is a group that is so obsessed with "free speech" that they want to publish material inappropriate for a school newspaper, the online blog is perhaps their proper venue. But it can't have school sponsorship.
2007-04-05 19:40:22 · answer #2 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋