Stories students can best tell:
Reporting protests, walkouts and marches
Between March 14 and March 24, the SPRC shared legal and ethical guidelines as well as coverage suggestions for reporting walkouts, protests and marches.
Because the topics are still ongoing and current, we’re loading all of our advice under one banner, for your convenience.
If you have other questions or examples of coverage you would like to share here, please submit them through the comments section below.
We intend to add material as needed or available.
• Students, join movement to make change: Mary Beth Tinker
• Legal issues in covering protests
• Tips for reporting protests
• Tips of audio reporting of protests, walkouts
• Plan and pack for social media coverage of protests
• More than a march: a civics lesson and a wake-up call
• SPRC package offers insights for reporting protests, marches
• Reporting stories student journalists can best tell
Shared materials
• Eric Garner shared this collaborative documentary created by the students of WMSD-TV at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, as well as students and alum from schools across the country. It covers the days after the incident as the school begins the rebuilding, and healing, process. youtu.be/8EB5Uk5l660
• Coverage by Harker School of San Jose and San Francisco student marches. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JufhGhnFAbk