KnightBlog » amendment http://www.knightblog.org Informed, engaged communities Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:51:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Celebrate Constitution Day By Learning About the First Amendment http://www.knightblog.org/celebrate-constitution-day-by-learning-about-the-first-amendment http://www.knightblog.org/celebrate-constitution-day-by-learning-about-the-first-amendment#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:47:23 +0000 Kristen Taylor http://www.knightblog.org/?p=317 Today, celebrate Constitution Day by learning more about the First Amendment.

Take the quiz, find ways to protect student journalists, and nominate a school for the First Amendment Press Freedom Award (deadline December 1st).

How else might we celebrate Constitution Day?

]]> http://www.knightblog.org/celebrate-constitution-day-by-learning-about-the-first-amendment/feed 0 Knight-Batten Awards, First Amendment, Games, and Innovation http://www.knightblog.org/knight-batten-awards-first-amendment-games-and-innovation http://www.knightblog.org/knight-batten-awards-first-amendment-games-and-innovation#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:02:18 +0000 Kristen Taylor http://www.knightblog.org/?p=294 On Wednesday, J-Lab (the Institute for Interactive Journalism) announced the winner of this year's Knight-Batten Innovation Award: Wired.com's Wikiscanner coverage "which helped readers investigate and expose ego-editing and corporate whitewashing of Wikipedia entries."

PolitiFact.com, with its "Truth-o-Meter" for 2008 presidential campaign statements, and Ushahidi: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information, a site to report incidents of political violence from mobile devices, email, and the Web, won Special Distinction Awards.

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Yesterday, Patricia Martin of the Culture Scout Blog posted about teens and the Knight Future of the First Amendment survey and research.

"It seems that when First Amendment rights are made relevant through self-expressive technologies, kids grasp it. It makes the case for why information privacy needs to become part of the First Amendment freedoms."

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At the 2008 Online News Association Conference (follow the conference Twitter updates) that continues until Saturday, sessions and pre-conference workshops on media included a workshop on news games; Kurt Greenbaum of STL Social Media Guy blogged about how journalists are embracing news games. The Knight News Challenge winner Gotham Gazette is mentioned.

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And Heidi Williamson, who helps promote the Knight News Challenge (the $5 million yearly contest to fund innovative digital news delivery), has posted a new Seesmic video "What are the obstacles for innovation?" More than two dozen video responses have been posted, and you can join the discussion with your response here.

]]> http://www.knightblog.org/knight-batten-awards-first-amendment-games-and-innovation/feed 0 Five Freedoms Project Site and Network Launch http://www.knightblog.org/five-freedoms-project-site-and-network-launch http://www.knightblog.org/five-freedoms-project-site-and-network-launch#comments Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:35:40 +0000 Kristen Taylor http://www.knightblog.org/?p=61 Funded by Knight Foundation, the Five Freedoms Project announces its Web site launch (fivefreedoms.org) and online network.

A resource for educators, students, and citizens, the site has an "actionable five-part framework" for leadership skill development, an area about voice and the learning cycle, and identifies five categories for impact.

You can read blog posts from the inaugural Five Freedoms Leadership Academy, convened recently at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. here, and answer the Five Freedoms question for July:

When have you exercised your First Amendment rights to bring about meaningful change? (Weigh in here.)

How do you think voice for the five freedoms can be articulated?

]]> http://www.knightblog.org/five-freedoms-project-site-and-network-launch/feed 0 First Amendment and my high school newspaper http://www.knightblog.org/first-amendment-and-my-high-school-newspaper http://www.knightblog.org/first-amendment-and-my-high-school-newspaper#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:21:04 +0000 Lee Oglesby http://www.knightblog.org/?p=46 Editor's note: Lee Oglesby is interning in Knight Communications department this summer. Below, she shares her thoughts about the first amendment and her high school newspaper. Look for a few more posts from Lee in coming weeks.

This week I’ve been reading up on the Future of the First Amendment survey - a Knight-sponsored survey that reveals how little high school students know about the first amendment - and the High School Journalism Initiative, a program that hopes to fix this problem while encouraging students to love journalism.

I graduated from Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High (a public-magnet school in north Dade) a year ago and, frankly, I’m not surprised that kids my age don’t know about the Bill of Rights. Sure, they’ll use “free speech” as an excuse for just about anything. But actual knowledge is limited and few kids think it actually applies to them as students. If you told an average student from my high school that the rights of the First Amendment had been extended to secondary students in 1943, they’d be shocked.

With that said, first amendment awareness at Krop wasn’t all bad. The school newspaper, The Lightning Strike, is pretty good. Actually, it’s really good. Readership went up dramatically in the span of a few years and several of the students I knew who took the journalism classes will go on to be great journalists.

screenshot of the Lightning Strike home page

As I was writing this and browsing the newspaper’s online site, I spotted the Knight Foundation logo in the corner. Turns out my high school paper had some help from the High School Journalism Initiatives. Go figure.

What was your high school newspaper like?

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