Presents a personalized reaction to the Kennedy Memorial report on high school journalism and discusses the results of a survey taken among Minnesota high school publications advisors. (RB)

Expresses several reservations about the way in which the Commission on Inquiry into High School Journalism presented its report on scholastic press freedom as published in "Captive Voices." (RB)

Argues for teaching journalism to the non-journalist and suggests areas which might be included in general courses on journalism for students who might have limited educational exposure to press problems. (RB)

This digest identifies some of the ethical issues which appeared in the mass media in the 1980s and discusses the implications which these issues have for the law and for those who already work in or study the mass media, as well as for those college students contemplating a career in journalism or broadcasting. (NKA)

While the typical pantheon of journalism history heroes is made up almost entirely of individuals who campaigned for more governmental regulation and increased social liberalism, there is also an opposing tradition in American journalism, one based on the premise that governmental cures are in most cases worse than the diseases they are designed…

A study used a communication perspective to examine the extent to which the civilian/military First Amendment dichotomy is warranted and to add to First Amendment theory the subject of the First Amendment rights of servicemembers. The study was limited to the freedoms of speech, press, assembly, petition, and association. It did not include…

The concept of institutional academic freedom is discussed. Attention is directed to how the concept confounds the distinct values and standards traditionally used in analysis of cases involving individual rights in higher education, and legal and practical problems it raises for the maintenance of traditional concepts of academic freedom. The…

This annotated bibliography of 72 books, journal articles, government reports, and newspaper feature stories focuses on the changing role of intellectuals in China, primarily since the 1949 Chinese Revolution. Particular attention is given to the Hundred Flowers Movement of 1957 and the Cultural Revolution. Most of the cited works are in English,…

The prison press in the United States operates under varying degrees of First Amendment freedom. Court decisions have been varied, and have not resolved whether convicts can produce or receive publications without censorship by prison officials. Until about 1970, censorship of the prison press was rarely challenged. Most newspapers and magazines…

Comments are divided into four sections: (1) a summary of the problems posed by the tenure system; (2) a brief survey of several alternatives to conventional tenure; (3) a review of some problems facing colleges in financial exigency; and (4) a few positive suggestions for the future. (Author/PG)

Article presented 7 existential principles of learning as well as 7 existential conditions for facilitating learning designed to help students realize their potentialities. (RK)

Concludes that Freedom of the press is a function of subsystem autonomy in an overall political system. (Author/RB)

First of a nine part series on American journalists, this article describes the contributions of John Peter Zenger to the cause of press freedom. (RB)

Argues that there should be a re-evaluation of the African press of pre-independence Kenya. (RB)

Discusses recent federal and Supreme Court decisions regarding the printing of obscene words and photographs in high school and college publications. (RB)