Student newspaper

A student newspaper is a newspaper run by university or high or middle school students that covers local and in particular school or university news.

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Newspaper - University - High - Middle - School - Students - News

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Working for one's school high school newspaper is sometimes an extracurricular activity but often a journalism class is taught at the school, in which students learn about the journalistic profession and also produce the paper. Some schools have a basic class in which students only learn about newpapering, and a class that produces the newspaper.

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Extracurricular activity - Journalism

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Student press in the United States is limited by the powers permitted to the school administration by United States Supreme Court decisions such as Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District and Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, in spite of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Under these decisions, the school admistrators, such as the principal, superintendent, school board members, or their subordinates, are allowed prior review and censorship of any school publication that receives school funding. Furthermore, Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier established that student publications aren't "true" public forums (in contrast with "real" newspapers and magazines such as the New York Times or Newsweek), and therefore aren?t entitled to the full rights granted by the First Amendment.

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United States - United States Supreme Court - Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District - Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier - First Amendment - United States Constitution - Principal - Superintendent - Prior review - Censorship - New York Times - Newsweek

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The UK's most famous student newspaper is Varsity, the student newspaper of the University of Cambridge. Its former editors include Jeremy Paxman, Richard Whiteley, and Michael Winner.

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Varsity - University of Cambridge - Jeremy Paxman - Richard Whiteley - Michael Winner

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