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6Tenets of Responsible Journalism
• Establish policies that
empower effective reporting
• Build better citizens through
critical thinking
• Hire trained advisers who use
sound curricula
• Open lines of communication
among all parties
• Provide strong content
through accuracy, diverse
sources
• Present content in verbal,
visual context
Posters and other materials available soon
And to supplement the principles………
JEA Adviser
Code of Ethics
Media advisers will:
• Model standards of professional
journalistic conduct to students,
administrators and others.• Empower students to make
decisions of style, structure and
content by creating a learning
atmosphere where students will
actively practice critical thinking
and decision making.• Encourage students to seek out
points of view and to explore a
variety of information sources in
their decision making.• Ensure students have a free,
robust and active forum for
expression without prior review or
restraint.• Emphasize the importance of
accuracy, balance and clarity in all
aspects of news gathering and
reporting.
• Show trust in students as they
carry out their responsibilities by
encouraging and supporting them in
a caring learning environment.
JEA Adviser
Code of Ethics
• Remain informed on press rights
and responsibilities.• Advise, not act as censors or
decision makers.• Display professional and
personal integrity in
situations which might be
construed as potential
conflicts of interest.• Support free expression for
others in local and larger
communities.• Model effective communications
skills by continuously updating
knowledge of media
education.• Journalism Education
Association, 2000
JEA
principles
Prior review is a weapon in the arsenal of
censorship, and the Journalism Education
Association opposes its use in
America’s schools
• JEA believes students should make final
decisions of content for all student media.
• JEA believes prior review has no educational
value and inhibits open dialogue and
exchange of ideas.
• JEA believes prior review negates the
educational value of a trained, professionally
active adviser and teacher working with
students in a counseling, educational
environment. Prior review simply makes the
teacher an accessory, as if what is taught
really does not matter.
• JEA believes prior review, as well as
restraint, gives school officials, who are the
government, the power to decide in advance
what people will read or know. Such officials
are potential newsmakers and their
involvement with the newsmaking process can
interfere with the public’s right to know.
• JEA believes prior review establishes the
possibility of viewpoint discrimination which
destroys a free marketplace of ideas where a
community can be fully informed and
undermines all pretext of responsible
journalism.
• JEA believes prior review leads toward self-
censorship, the most chilling and pervasive
form of censorship in schools. Fear like this will
eliminate any chance of critical thinking and the
development of active, inquiring citizenship.
• JEA believes learning must be a dynamic
process, one in which an adviser helps students
but does not make decisions for them.
• JEA believes advisers should trust students as
they carry out their responsibilities of accurate,
complete and thorough journalism without
administrative interference.
• JEA believes student journalists must be
accorded the same freedoms and
responsibilities as their commercial
counterparts and that these students must be
provided with accurate information on their
rights and responsibilities.
• JEA believes censorship or unwarranted
administrative
interference with the journalistic process is the
last resort of an educational system failing its
present and future citizens.
Go to Web site with teaching materials
JEA Scholastic Press Rights Commission
http://jeapressrights.org