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Four journalism students from across the country described facing censorship, arrest and harassment for covering their schools’ most pressing issues during a Sept. 30 celebration of student reporting at UC Berkeley Journalism. The event, hosted by the Student Press Law Center and moderated by NBC News White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor, highlighted the tenacity of… Continue reading SPLC, UC Berkeley event celebrates student journalists
Current and former students suing the Lawrence, Kansas, school district over its use of AI surveillance tools saw a big victory this summer when a federal judge ordered the district to pay more than $113,000 in the students’ legal fees for violating the Kansas Open Records Act.
Educator Sara Bauknecht writes that, this time around, professional newsrooms should avoid assuming that today’s college students and recent grads are AI experts here to save the day. She offers some ways professional and student journalists can work together and help each other explore AI’s possibilities and potential pitfalls.
