Please consider a donation to @splc.org. They do amazing work for amazing student journalists.
"We have power to organize, we have power to call out [and] keep institutions accountable.”
Today, more than 150 Maryland high schoolers did just that — signing a cross-district open letter demanding the district follow the state's press freedom law.
🔗 Their story: https://loom.ly/c7SmtGY
Congratulations to Andrew Hum and Kim Hong of Holmdel High School for winning the First Amendment Award from Youth Journalism International!
Learn more about Hum and Hong’s experience advocating for student press rights in their 2025 editorial: https://loom.ly/qf5U4Rg
It’s an urgent moment for student journalists, and they need support from individuals like you and organizations like SPLC.
Please consider a gift today to ensure they get the legal help they need when it matters most. All donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar: https://loom.ly/S5dflTM
With the academic year coming to a close, don’t forget to nominate a student journalist for SPLC’s Student Press Freedom Awards!
Both the Courage in Student Journalism Award and the Student Freedom of Information Award come with cash prizes. 🏆
Learn more and apply at the link in our bio.
While many college publications around the nation face budget cuts, Prism writes about how some have responded with more in-depth reporting and sounder, more strategic business decisions.
Read the full story: https://loom.ly/PCvtDsg
🚨 Fourteen national journalism groups wrote to IU admins today, urging them to act on a student media task force’s recommendations — and warning that the press community is still watching after actions taken last fall undermined #studentpressfreedom at IU.
Read the letter: https://loom.ly/-sc9RPE
Nebraska students were recently honored by @kennedyhrc.bsky.social for in-depth reporting on the state prison system. 🎉 https://loom.ly/nekJVs0
We were proud to provide pre-pub assistance to this team as they gave a voice to the incarcerated and their families.
Submit your nominations here: splc.org/awards/
When student journalists tackle a tough story, the instinct to suppress it is both a legal risk and a missed opportunity. SPLC spoke with K-12 Dive about what school leaders should do instead — and why 18 states have New Voices laws protecting student press rights. https://loom.ly/EZrKTJ4
Katie Fallow
Student Press Law Center
Student Press Law Center
Student Press Law Center
Student Press Law Center
Student Press Law Center
Student Press Law Center
Student Press Law Center
Student Press Law Center
Student Press Law Center
At least 20 U.S. colleges have significantly cut funding to student media, according to a Prism analysis. Students are taking strategic business risks to sustain newsrooms
Each year since 1984, the Student Press Law Center presents competitive awards to recognize exceptional efforts of high school and college journalists in fighting for student press freedom and in tell...
splc.org
A University of Nebraska–Lincoln student project that investigated the overcrowding, understaffing and other multilayered issues confronting Nebraska’s prison system took home the College Journalism Award at the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book and Journalism Awards on May 20.
It’s an urgent moment for student journalists, and they need support from individuals like you and organizations like SPLC.
Please consider a gift today to ensure they get the legal help they need when it matters most. All donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar: https://loom.ly/S5dflTM
