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Key Finding 10

Of the high schools that do not offer student newspapers, 40 percent have eliminated student papers within the past five years. Of those, 68 percent now have no media.

"Clearly, greater participation in student media will be a big help, but also, more frequent and more general conversations about our first freedom can make a difference. It's something that all of us-not just those in the journalism community, but all who care about education-should advocate.''  

-Rosalind Stark, Retired Executive Director, Radio and Television News
Directors Foundation, where she oversaw the high school journalism
program; board member, Student Press Law Center

Twenty-six percent of schools surveyed do not offer an official school newspaper. This graphic shows that of the schools that dropped their newspapers in the past five years, 41 percent still have at least one student media activity.

Continued student media offerings by schools that have dropped their student newspapers in the past five years

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