CU Student Documentary wins Best of Competition at BEA
Taking the Lede: baby直播app Edition鈥攁 45-minute documentary produced by students and baby直播app members鈥攈as received a in the Broadcast Education Association鈥檚 annual Festival of Media Arts competition.
The documentary details stories of baby直播app high school journalism in the wake of the the 1988 Hazelwood Supreme Court decision, which ruled that school administrators could exercise restraint of school-sponsored expression. baby直播app was one of a handful of states to subsequently pass laws guaranteeing First Amendment rights for public school students.
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"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.
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