Type-Hi Newsletter Summer 2014
Standing Committees (May 1, 2014 – April 11, 2015) FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
TIPA’s Freedom of Information Committee is the watchdog of student press freedoms at Texas colleges and universities. This committee monitors student press freedom incidents and situations in Texas, collects relevant information, interacts with the appropriate adviser(s) and reports to the TIPA faculty advisers’ body for further action or support. The committee may be called upon to intervene in instances where the student media is restricted. Chair Jim Sernoe, Midwestern State jim.sernoe@mwsu.edu Pat Spence, Stephen F. Austin pspence@sfasu.edu
Bob Templeton, Midland College btemple@midland.edu
Kenneth Pybus, Abilene Christian Kenneth.pybus@acu.edu
CONVENTION
Committee members provide leadership and assistance in annual convention planning, including determining and securing workshop speakers/ presenters, recommendation of future convention sites, assist with other convention activities as needed.
Chair Fred Stewart, A&M-Commerce fred.stewart@tamuc.edu Rhonda Ross, TWU rross7@twu.edu
Julie Freeman, Baylor julie_freeman@baylor.edu
Jim Sernoe , Midwestern State jim.sernoe@mwsu.edu
Jenny Moore, A&M-San Antonio jmoore@tamusa.tamus.edu
Dennis Robertson, East Texas Baptist drobertson@etbu.edu Chad Thomas, UT-Dallas chadthomas@utdallas.edu
SCHOLARSHIP
(Composed of previous year’s recipients and respective advisers) Committee members review scholarship applicants prior to annual convention; discuss applicants at annual scholarship meeting and determine scholarship recipients. Committee also reviews scholarship application requirements and procedures and makes recommendations for any changes/modifications. (This committee will be sent 2015 scholarship applications prior to the 2015 convention. The committee will review the applications then meet at
2014 Live News Video winning entries online Below are the links to the winning Video News Conrtest entries from the 2014 TIPA convention in San Antonio. Thanks to Cade White of Abilene Christian University for making this possible. 1sr Place Stephen Snook Sam Houston State http://youtu.be/723HCxNzdPA 2nd Place Baylor Bendele Texas A&M-Commerce http://youtu.be/Zf_ZgdJi9uM 3rd Place John Edwards UT-Tyler http://youtu.be/Di7VLOYY0bs
Start planning for convention
The 2015 TIPA Convention will be returning to the El Tropicano Riverwalk Hotel in San Antonio April 8-11.
The number of available rooms at the hotel has been increased to prevent convention participants from having to stay elsewhere. Hotel room rates: Single ($134) Double ($134) Triple ($144) Quad ($144) Room reservation deadline: March 13 Convention registration: $90 per person Registration deadline: March 6
the convention to determine scholarship recipients.) Robert Muilenburg (Del Mar College) Raul Alonzo (Del Mar College) Mike Haynes (Amarillo College) Amanda Castro-Crist (Amarillo College) Eddye Gallagher (Tarrant County College) Chris Whitley (Tarrant County College) Kenney Kost (Tarrant County College) Vicky Kendig (Mary Hardin-Baylor) Avery Reese (Mary Hardin-Baylor) Katelyn Holm (Mary Hardin-Baylor) Kevin Dilley (UT-Tyler) Morgan Jones (UT-Tyler) Susan Peterson (Texas Tech) Carson Wilson (Texas Tech) Julie Freeman (Baylor) Paul Carr (Baylor) Linda Wilkins (Baylor) Dennis Bautista (St. Mary’s University) Stela Khury (St. Mary’s University)
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED/ BROADCAST CONTEST RULES
Committee members review contest rules and guidelines including categories and descriptions, submission guidelines and methods, division breakdowns, eligibility, and make recommendations for change or modification at the next faculty advisers’ business meeting. Committee members also assist the executive director in securing out-ofstate judges for contests.
(Committee will make recommendations concerning the contest for discussion and/or action at the 2015 TIPA Business Meeting.) Chair Fred Stewart, A&M-Commerce fred.stewart@tamuc.edu Julie Freeman, Baylor Julie_Freeman@baylor.edu
Jim Sernoe, Midwestern State jim.sernoe@mwsu.edu
Debbi Hatton, Sam Houston State SCM_DAH@shsu.edu
Robert Muilenburg, Del Mar College rmuilenburg@delmar.edu Robert Bohler, TCU rbohler@tcu.edu
Beth Francesco, UT-Arlington bfrances@exchange.uta.edu
LIVE CONTEST RULES Committee members review contest rules and guidelines including contests and descriptions, submission guidelines and methods, eligibility, and make recommendations for change or modification at the next faculty advisers’ business meeting. Committee members also secure judges for annual on-site contests.
Each officer position is for two years. Officer positions are President, Vice President, Secretary. Chair Jim Sernoe, Midwestern State jim.sernoe@mwsu.edu
MEMBERSHIP
Chair Fred Stewart (A&M-Commerce fred.stewart@tamuc.edu
Committee members review the annual list of active TIPA member schools and develop plan(s) to contact non-members about TIPA and invite these schools to join the organization, participate in organization activities and/or attend the annual TIPA spring convention. All potential member information is sent directly to the Central Office for follow-up.
Debbie Hatton, Sam Houston State SCM_DAH@shsu.edu
Libby Stapleton, Angelina College lstapleton@angelina.edu
(Committee will make recommendations concerning the contest for discussion and/or action at the 2015 TIPA Business Meeting.)
Jim Sernoe, Midwestern State jim.sernoe@mwsu.edu Julie Akers, Stephen F. Austin jakers@sfasu.edu Jay Miller, SMU jamiller@mail.smu.edu
Bob Templeton, Midland College btemple@midland.edu
ADVISER OF THE YEAR
(Chaired by previous recipient) Committee members review application guidelines and recommend any changes at the annual TIPA faculty advisers’ business meeting. Committee members will also secure out-ofstate media professional to review the applications and recommend the Adviser of the Year. Chair Butler Cain, West Texas A&M bcain@wtamu.edu
NOMINATING COMMITTEE
(Chair named by TIPA president, odd-numbered years)
Committee members contact TIPA faculty advisers concerning involvement as a TIPA officer. TIPA officers typically begin as Secretary and move up the ladder to President.
Chair Laura Krantz, Tyler Junior College lkrantz@tjc.edu Paul Carr, Baylor Paul_Carr@baylor.edu
Dennis Robertson, East Texas Baptist drobertson@etbu.edu
UT names director (editorandpublisher.com, May 2014)
R.B. Brenner has been named director of the University of Texas School of Journalism beginning in August. He leaves the deputy director of the journalism program at Stanford University. He previously worked in several editing positions at The Washington Post and succeeds Glenn Frankel who announced his retirement to work as an author fulltime.
NOTICE
Please submit material for the Type-Hi Newsletter to TIPA, Fred. Stewart@tamuc.edu. Submit announcements, personnel information, student media-related news items, photos, opinion and letters to the editor. All material must be TIPA, journalism, media or student media related.
Texas case tests power of courts to scrub the Web Submitted by: Kenneth R. Pybus, J.D. Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication Student Media Adviser Abilene Christian University
Texas media professionals, journalism students and student media advisers should be aware of a case now under consideration by the Supreme Court of Texas. Kinney v. Barnes was argued in January and involves two important questions related to Texas media law: 1. whether the Texas Constitution’s free speech provision sets a higher standard than the First Amendment when it comes to court orders to take down libelous statement, and 2. whether a permanent injunction constitutes a prior restraint under one or the other free speech guarantees, or both.
Kinney, one of Barnes’s former employees in a lawyer placement firm left to start his own recruiting firm. He sued after Barnes posted on two websites accusing Kinney of paying kickbacks to place clients. Kinney asked for a permanent court order forcing Barnes to take the statement off his websites. The trial court dismissed the case saying, rightfully in my mind, that such a court order would be an impermissible prior restraint. The appeals court affirmed that decision. The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld libel as a legitimate tort to compensate individuals for the harms to their reputation caused by negligent, reckless and knowing publications of false statements. But it has never upheld a case in which courts have ordered the false statements to be scrubbed from history. Instead, libel has always involved monetary damages to compensate a defamed person or company.
In fact, in Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697 (1931), the Supreme Court specifically rejected the idea of banning a newspaper editor from publishing in the future because of his previous libels. That case limited such prior restraint to only extreme situations – national security and the safety of troops, obscenity, immediate incitement to violence or words that have the “full effect of force”.
Kinney’s lawyer, however, argued the Internet changes all that because it’s essentially permanent and ubiquitous. And courts in a couple of states have agreed with that reasoning, allowing judges to force libelous statements off the Internet rather than simply making the speaker responsible for the harms caused by that speech. On the other hand, Barnes’ lawyer argued the First Amendment, Near v. Minnesota and other Supreme Court precident should stop judges from forcing speakers to remove speech from the Internet. And even if it doesn’t, the Texas free speech clause should. Most people are unaware Texas even has its own free speech provision. Article 1, Section 8 of the Texas Constitution (under the heading FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND PRESS; LIBEL) reads:
Every person shall be at liberty to speak, write or publish his opinions on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that privilege; and no law shall ever be passed curtailing the liberty of speech or of the press. In prosecutions for the publication of papers, investigating the conduct of officers, or men in public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases. The outcome of this case will be
significant for Texas journalists and may even find its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. At stake is whether our understanding of prior restraint and the protections of free speech we have enjoyed for almost a century will stand or whether the Texas Supreme Court will allow courts and plaintiffs to force writers and speakers to wipe the Internet of offending passages.
Letter from CMA to all advisers
Some of you are retiring and others are moving on to other jobs or taking a break from advising. If you are, we wish you well and hope you’ll keep in touch. We also want to reach out to your successors. You know how much CMA has helped you and your students, particularly in those early years of advising. We’d like to start training and supporting the next generation of college media advisers. If you know of any new advisers starting at your institution or at another school, please let us know by sending their contact information (or an introductory email) to me at rkanigel@gmail.com <mailto:rkanigel@ gmail.com> or CMA Associate Executive Director Lori Brooks at lorimbrooks@collegemedia. org<mailto:lorimbrooks@collegemedia.org>. We’ll follow up with them. If you’re involved in your state’s college media organization, we’d also appreciate if you shared this message with its leadership or through its social media channels. We would love to know about new advisers entering those ranks. Thanks! Rachele Kanigel, President College Media Association
Update directory entry now Please take a few minutes to update your school’s entry for the TIPA Directory web page. Provide general location and website information for your school followed by name of each student media, web address for each media, telephone number for each media and name,
email and telephone of each student media adviser/director/manager. A submission guide is below. Please try to get the updated information to the Central Office by Sept. 1. If there are NO changes or updates, please respond to this email accordingly.
SAMPLE: Acme State University
12345 Main St, Anywhere, TX 00000 www.acmestateuniversity.edu Enrollment: 23,500
Jane Doe (JaneD@acmestate.edu; 000-555-1212) Director of Student Media
N: Acme Press (thepress@acmestate.edu; 000-555-5555)
Adviser: John Doe (J.Doe@acmestate.edu; 555-555-5551)
Pacemaker finalist Pacemaker yearbook finalist Aggieland (Texas A&M) Pacemaker winners will be announced Oct. 29-Nov. 2 at the ACP/CMA National College Media Convention in Philadelphia.
Borders leaves Kilgore for publisher job
Gary Borders has left Kilgore College to become publisher of The Daily Tribune in Mount Pleasant, Texas. He took the Kilgore student media position following the retirement of Bettye Craddock last year.
YB: Acme Statesman (statesman@acmestate.edu; 555-555-5550)
The Kilgore College position is now open with details available at kilgore.edu/job_listings.asp.
And so on for the remainder of your student media…………..
Texas Intercollegiate Press Association
Adviser: Jane Doe (JaneD@acmestate.edu; 555-555-5552)
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