SUMMER 2013
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My mentor, my comrade, my friend
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Adviser Update
FRIEND OF JOURNALISM — Dr. Stephen G-M Shenton
receives the Pennsylvania School Press Association’s
Friend of Journalism award at a 2003 luncheon. With Shenton are then Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Foundation Executive Director Janet Neidig, PNA NIE Director
Susan Morgan, and then PSPA Executive Director George
Taylor. Update photo courtesy of PSPA
S UMMER 2013
ROUNDUP
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with your information. Photos with
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Next deadline is Sept. 1.
ACES
The American Copy
Editors Society, in
conjunction with
10 other journalism
organizations, has
released its first
e-book, “Telling the
Truth and Nothing But.”
The book is available now as a free
download at rjionline.org and is designed
for media professionals who are
responding to incidents of plagiarism and
fabrication. The book offers tools to help
identify and address those incidents.
Last September, ACES issued
an invitation to several journalism
organizations to develop resources for
newsrooms to help combat plagiarism,
obfuscation and fabrication. The issue
was raised by Poynter Institute’s
Craig Silverman in a Regret the Error
blog. Silverman cited cases in which
journalists and media groups with good
reputations were guilty of plagiarizing,
falsifying information, faking bylines
and reporting inaccurate or unverified
information.
See Rich Holden’s related column
on page A7 of this issue.
t is with great sadness that I note the passing of
Dr. Stephen G-M Shenton, professor emeritus of
Shippensburg University. It was to Shippensburg
that a very young, inexperienced teacher and adviser
went for his initial dip into the pool of scholastic
journalism. While we spent just a week on campus,
we were expected to do loads of work both prior to
and after our time together. Dr. Shenton was a real
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