Get Me Rewrite!: Five Years of the Student Newspaper Diversity Project

Abstract

In the five years of a newspaper project involving high school and university students that publishes an annual special edition exploring a diversity issue within the local community, several key pedagogical, political, and economic revisions have been made. Nevertheless, the bedrock principles of service-learning and civic journalism have remained constant. The project history shows that a sound theoretical foundation rooted in student and community education and awareness can withstand pressures of censorship by school administrators, ethical and pedagogical concerns that balance student safety with product integrity, and the economic need to become self-sufficient.

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
Published
2005-09-01
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10.59236/rjv5i1pp89-109
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