Washington State moves forward with bill protecting student media

2/8/2016

(L-R) Student media attorney Mike Hiestand, Kylie Charney-Harrington, a student journalist with The Blazer, the student newspaper at Timberline High School in Lacey, Wash., and Mountlake High School student media adviser Vince DeMiero were among those to testify before a Washington State Senate Committee Jan. 21 in support of a bill that would protect the free press rights of the state’s high school and college student journalists. [Photo by Dan Hiestand]

Washington state Sen. Joe Fain speaks at the state Senate education committee's hearing on the New Voices of Washington bill on Jan. 21. [Photo by Dan Hiestand]

Track the latest legislative efforts in Washington State and around the country at New Voices USA, a network of state-by-state campaigns to pass anti-censorship legislation that will grant extra protections to student journalists.

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Mike Hiestand

Mike Hiestand is the founder of Zenger Consulting. He is currently Senior Legal Counsel with the Student Press Law Center. He was the staff attorney for the nonprofit Center, located just outside Washington, D.C., between 1991-2003 and worked as the Center’s sole consulting attorney until 2012. He continues to assist student media via the Center's legal hotline and works with the SPLC on special projects affecting the student press community. Over the years, he has provided media law and First Amendment help to nearly 18,000 high school and college student journalists and their advisers.

He is also the founder and president of Houstory Publishing, creators of the Home History Book archival journal and The Heirloom Registry.

Washington State moves forward with bill protecting student media

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