Even 17-year-old reporters need a first amendment lawyer now

As high school journalists face censorship from sources and their own school officials, they’re calling in attorneysHigh school journalism is often seen as a gentle apprenticeship: a place where teenagers cut their teeth on post-game reports from Friday night football or incremental updates of a student-council race. But at 17, Myesha Phukan wanted to work on something meatier. As a student reporter for the Oracle at Mountain View high school, she and a group of student journalists began methodi...

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