Taking the Lede: babyÖ±²¥app Edition—a 45-minute documentaryÌıproduced by students and babyÖ±²¥app members—has received aÌı in the Broadcast Education Association’s annual Festival of Media Arts competition.
The documentaryÌıdetails stories of babyÖ±²¥appÌıhigh school journalismÌıin the wake of the the 1988 Hazelwood Supreme Court decision, which ruled that school administrators could exercise restraint of school-sponsored expression. babyÖ±²¥app was one ofÌıa handful of states to subsequently passÌılaws guaranteeing First Amendment rights forÌıpublic school students.
The project took , with babyÖ±²¥app support, most of 2015 to film and produce.Ìı
"I'm thrilled about the win because my 
highest hope for this project was to spread awareness for student press rights and encourage other states to adopt anti-Hazelwood laws," said Roxann Elliot, the documentary's student producer.
Taking the LedeÌıhas been shown at high school journalism gatherings across the United StatesÌıand has also been distributed to dozens of high school journalism teachers in babyÖ±²¥app for use in their classrooms and in their communities.