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ADV ISER UPDATE SPRING 2017 Table of Contents 7 USING DESIGN THINKING TO BUILD EMPATHY IN OUR REPORTERS Learn how Beatrice Motamedi uses design thinking principles to help her reporters build empathy for their subjects. 21 WHAT ’S FAIR USE? Copyright law can be confusing to both students and advisers alike. Gary Clites helps sort out what we can and cannot use in our student media publications. 27 CLIMBING A MOUNTAIN Hear the behind the scene story about how one newspaper staff in Kansas ousted their principal with sound investigative reporting. C OVE R P H OTO Pittsburg High School student journalists Gina Mathew, Trina Paul, Kali Poenitske, Maddie Baden, Patrick Sullivan and Connor Balthazor hold copies of The Booster Redux containing their article that led to the resignation of the school’s newly hired principal. Photo by Keith Myers/Kansas City Star SU BSC R IP T ION To be placed on the Adviser Update distribution list sign up at http://bit.ly/adviserupdate ARTICLE SUBMISSION, STORY IDEAS Adviser Update welcomes story ideas and articles from its readers. Some articles are reprints from other publications in the field of scholastic journalism. Original articles should be between 400 and 600 words in length on topics of importance or interest to Update’s targeted audience. Color photos (high resolution jpegs) or PDF graphics are welcome. Authors must include a paragraph biography and a color headshot. Writers are paid based on the depth of the article, accompanying artwork and placement in the publication. Please address all news items and story ideas to: Heather Taylor Phone: (609) 520-5912 Email: heather.taylor@dowjones. com ADVIS E R UPDATE www.adviserupdate.org @AdviserUpdate Adrienne Forgette, MJE, editor Yinuo Chen, designer Ethan Pender, copy editor CONTACT THE NE WS F UND Mail: P.O. Box 300 Princeton, NJ 08543-0300 Phone: 609-452-2820 Fax: 609-520-5804 Email: [email protected] WHO ARE WE? The Dow Jones News Fund, a nonprofit foundation supported by the Dow Jones Foundation and and other media companies, promotes journalism careers in the digital age. ADVISER UPDATE’S MISSION Adviser Update, a digital magazine published by the Dow Jones News Fund for high school journalism teachers and publications advisers, is a free quarterly serving the inexperienced as well as the verteran. It will be the seminal free resource for these educators, a clearinghouse of practical, topical information. Information about the News Fund, its services and programs is available on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube and dowjonesnewsfund.org.