No student publication, whether non-school sponsored or official, print or electronic, will be reviewed by school officials prior to distribution or withheld from distribution. The school assumes no liability for the content of any student publication and urges all student journalists to recognize that with editorial control comes responsibility, including the responsibility to follow professional journalism standards.
No censorship of student publications will occur. Student staff may edit for content at the discretion of the editor-in-chief in consultation with the faculty adviser.
As part of the learning experience in the journalism laboratory of student publications, all copy for publication in the Richland Chronicle or decoy or broadcast on KDUX should undergo three edits with a writing coach or faculty member for instructional purposes only. These edits will be for style, grammar, spelling and form only; content will not be edited. The practice of such editing is not considered to be censorship or prior restraint, and it is at the discretion of the editor-in-chief and station manager to enforce this policy.
