Protest policies: The first line of defense for student journalists
By Izzie Lund and Kaleigh Carroll, Western Washington University
When you cover a protest, what organization, document or person do you turn to?
Established journalists may point to people within their publication, others in the industry — like — or personal contacts they’ve established during their career.
But what about student journalists? These are the questions we asked ourselves 16 weeks ago, and we discovered there wasn’t a clear answer.
So we decided to change that.