The Malheur Enterprise has won a national award for fighting secrecy as it reported on the Treasure Valley Reload Center. The First Amendment Award was given to the family-owned newspaper by the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a national journalism organization. The award cited the work of the Enterprise to obtain public[Read More…]
By Steven Mitchell - The Enterprise
Vale district pulls high school yearbook over words, spurring censorship concerns
AROUND OREGON: Vale School District officials could be violating student journalists’ First Amendment rights by pulling the high school’s yearbook after some found words and phrases on the cover offensive, according to a national organization that protects the free speech rights of student journalists.