Type-HiNewsletter

Summer 2014

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

(May 1, 2014 – April 11, 2015)

Standing Committees

Below are the links to the winning Video News Conrtest entries from the 2014 TIPA convention in San Anto-nio. Thanks to Cade White of Abilene Christian University for making this possible.

1sr PlaceStephen Snook

Sam Houston Statehttp://youtu.be/723HCxNzdPA

2nd PlaceBaylor Bendele

Texas A&M-Commercehttp://youtu.be/Zf_ZgdJi9uM

3rd PlaceJohn Edwards

UT-Tylerhttp://youtu.be/Di7VLOYY0bs

2014 Live News Video winning entries online

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 pre-vent 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

Start planningfor convention

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-of-state 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.

(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

Jim Sernoe, Midwestern State jim.sernoe@mwsu.edu

Debbie Hatton, Sam Houston State SCM_DAH@shsu.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-of-state 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.

Each officer position is for two years. Officer positions are President, Vice President, Secretary.

Chair Jim Sernoe, Midwestern State jim.sernoe@mwsu.edu

MEMBERSHIP

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.

Chair Laura Krantz, Tyler Junior College lkrantz@tjc.edu

Libby Stapleton, Angelina College lstapleton@angelina.edu

Paul Carr, Baylor Paul_Carr@baylor.edu

Dennis Robertson, East Texas Baptist drobertson@etbu.edu

(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 full-time.

UT names director

Please submit material for the Type-Hi Newsletter to TIPA, Fred.Stewart@tamuc.edu. Submit an-nouncements, personnel infor-mation, student media-related news items, photos, opinion and letters to the editor. All material must be TIPA, journalism, media or student media related.

N O T I C E

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:

whether the Texas 1. 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 whether a permanent 2. 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.

Texas case tests power of courts to scrub the Web

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 stu-dents, particularly in those early years of advising. We’d like to start training and supporting the next gen-eration of college media advisers. If you know of any new advisers start-ing at your institution or at another school, please let us know by send-ing their contact information (or an introductory email) to me at rkani-gel@gmail.com <mailto:rkanigel@gmail.com> or CMA Associate Executive Director Lori Brooks at lorimbrooks@collegemedia.org<mailto:lorimbrooks@colleg-emedia.org>. We’ll follow up with them.

If you’re involved in your state’s col-lege media organization, we’d also appreciate if you shared this mes-sage with its leadership or through its social media channels. We would love to know about new advisers en-tering those ranks.

Thanks!Rachele Kanigel, PresidentCollege Media Association

Letter from CMA to all advisers

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)

YB: Acme Statesman (statesman@acmestate.edu; 555-555-5550)

Adviser: Jane Doe (JaneD@acmestate.edu; 555-555-5552)

And so on for the remainder of your student media…………..

Please take a few minutes to update your school’s entry for the TIPA Directory web page. Provide gen-eral location and website informa-tion 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 stu-dent media adviser/director/man-ager. A submission guide is be-low. 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.

Update directory entry now

Pacemaker yearbook finalistAggieland (Texas A&M)

Pacemaker winners will be an-nounced Oct. 29-Nov. 2 at the ACP/CMA National College Media Convention in Philadel-phia.

Pacemakerfinalist

Texas Intercollegiate Press Association

Texas A&M University-Commerce2600 S. Neal

Box 4104Commerce, TX 75420

Ph: 903-886-5231Fax: 903-468-3128

Email: Fred.Stewart@tamuc.eduWeb: TexasIPA.org

Follow Type-Hi (TIPA magazine of convention on-site contest winners,

previously published/broadcast contest rules,

newsletter) at www.ISSUU.com/texasipa

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.

The Kilgore College position is now open with details available at kilgore.edu/job_listings.asp.

Borders leaves Kilgore for publisher job