O&E AMENDMENTS UPDATE

Because our post about O&E on april 13 noted that our deadlines for most amendments were week 7, and it is now week 7, I put together an update to our work with making these amendments.

HERE IT IS:

1. GENERAL STATEMENT OF PHILOSOPHY - WHO WILL DO THIS?
“create a weekly newspaper”, as well as other newspaper references – should refer also to multimedia news website.
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4. ETHICS CODE - WHO WILL DO THIS?
“5. Written reports, headlines, photographs and illustrations should give an accurate picture of an event and not highlight a minor incident out of context.”
-This section should be revised to reflect the new media that will be included on the cpj website – video, audio, interactive graphics, etc.

What kind of video and audio ethics can accompany sections 6 through 9 of the Accuracy and Objectivity portion of the Ethics code?
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5. RESPONSIBILITY - WHO WILL DO THIS?
The term graphic arts is used a couple of times. We should expand this to represent the new media that will be included on the cpj website – video, audio, interactive graphics, etc.
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6. PUBLICATION CRITERIA – SETH AND JASON
How should we revise sections A. Eligibility and B. PRIORITY to reflect the content submission criteria that we developed? Does all of the following need to be in operations and ethics? Would parts of the content submission criteria be better represented in section 19. ORGANIZATION MEMBERS AND NEWSPAPER CONTRIBUTORS AND PRODUCTION STAFF, under B. NEWSPAPER CONTRIBUTORS?

CONTENT SUBMISSION CRITERIA
(1) Only Evergreen students with a valid evergreen.edu student email account can
a. contribute content to any section of www.cooperpointjournal.com
b. post comments on www.cooperpointjournal.com content
(2) All contributions and posts must be in a student's own name.
(3) Evergreen staff and faculty submissions will be limited to a staff/faculty blog.
A CPJ blog coordinator would determine which blog postings should be listed in the links index for each section. For example, a posting from Staff A seems appropriate for both the Letters&Opinion and the Arts&Entertainment sections. The coordinator would inform the web m.e., associate editor or editor-in-chief who would OK putting a link to that blog posting in the link index on the L&O page and the A&E page.
a. Evergreen staff enrolled in an Evergreen class or program using the college-staff special tuition rate will not be considered to be students but staff engaged in professional development.
b. All Evergreen staff and faculty must have a mug shot taken at/by the CPJ before their contribution is published.
c. Every blog posting must include the full name of the Evergreen staff or faculty, which will link to a profile page that contains the mug shot of the staff/faculty, identifying information and links to all postings by that staff/faculty.
(4) All student contributors and commentors must have a mug shot taken at/by the CPJ before their contribution or comment is published.
(5) All L&O pieces must be published with a mug shot of the writer.
The mug shot and the byline will link to a page profile that will contain the mug shot of the writer, identifying information about the writer and links to every contribution (text and multimedia) from that person.
(6) All comment postings must include the first and last name of the student posting the comment. That name will link to a profile page with the mug shot of the student, identifying information and links to all contributions and postings by that student.
(7) The Cooper Point Journal editor-in-chief makes the final decision about publishing content/comments, including placement.
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10. COPYRIGHT - KRISTINA
Section D. should be revised to say that students will fill out the copyright for online at the time of registration. (Or should it? Maybe we want people to come into the office to fill out the copyright form and get a headshot taken? Thoughts?)
Section F. should be revised to say that we will be including and archiving each submission on the cooper point journal website, and that it may be included in the print edition. I’m not sure how that change affects our one-time use right.

Changes have been made and we’ll be going over them tonight at the organization meeting
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12. CORRECTIONS - JASON
Jason has revised this to reflect the website. There will be an index on the frontpage and corrections will be noted on article pages.
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14. UNAUTHORIZED ALTERATION, THEFT, AND VANDALISM – SETH AND BRYN

THIS SECTION IS DIFFICULT. HELP.
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16. DISTRIBUTION AND SUBSCRIPTIONS – BRYN AND KRISTINA?
This section was waiting for updates to the business manual, which have been made.
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19. ORGANIZATION MEMBERS AND NEWSPAPER CONTRIBUTORS AND PRODUCTION STAFF – JASON AND SETH
B. NEWSPAPER CONTRIBUTORS?
How will this change to reflect the content submission criteria noted above?
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20. POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY & APPOINTMENT AND TENURE - JASON
Revise to reflect the three managing editors, based on the position descriptions that Jason is writing.

Replace assistant business manager with associate business manager.
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25. FLAG – WHO WILL DO THIS?
How should the website be reflected in this section?
Should the flag on the website be essentially the same as the print edition flag?
Does this section need to change, or do we just need to interpret this as being applicable to the website?