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7 Constitution
4.7 Group Magazine club gives a voice to the Pleasanton Middle School student body as our core purpose. We aim to create a student-run magazine, which freely and positively connects with our readers with issues important to our middle school community. Every writer is dedicated to fulll our number one promise: to provide content of the highest integrity and quality with a professional approach to journalism and publishing. Section 1: Our Duty to Our Audience 1.1 ! The 4.7 Magazine will treat our readers openly and fairly by telling the complete, unvarnished truth. 1.2! The 4.7 Magazine serves the Pleasanton Middle School audience, including administrators, faculty, and staff; parents; and students. As part of the school, the magazine will cover events and issues concerning student interests. This will also be a medium for student ideas and opinions. We will produce content that features a wide variety of students and their viewpoints. 1.3! We will publish only information that will benet our audience.

1.4 ! We will not tolerate any plagiarism or false content. Staff members and outside contributors who do this is betraying our pledge to our readers. Section 2: Obligations to the Club 2.1 ! Every student is welcome to join the staff or contribute articles.

2.2 ! Every staff member is required to turn in their due articles on time at the specied deadline determined at club meetings. 2.3 ! 2.4! Every staff member must follow Pleasanton Middle School rules. Plagiarism is prohibited.

2.5! Every staff member must respect each other and their opinions, cooperating with others as best they can. 2.6! No member should be sharing details about a future publication to the public before it is published.

2.7! Every journalist at the 4.7 treat sources fairly and professionally. Nobody should pay for information, inquire pointlessly into someones personal life, threaten sources, or promise favorable coverage. Every staff member should tell their purpose to people they cover. 2.8! Every staff member is encouraged to promote our magazine and club among other students. 2.9! Every staff member must attend rst and last meetings of every month.

Section 3: Editorial Policies 3.1! The 4.7 Magazine and its staff are protected by and bound to the principles of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and other laws and court decisions regarding such journalistic principles. 3.2 ! The 4.7 Magazine will not publish any material determined by student editors to be a disruption of the education process, an invasion of privacy, a violation of copyright, or promotion of illegal services or products (as dened by state or federal law). 3.3 ! Student editors and the advisor reserve the right to edit articles for length, grammar, punctuation, and unacceptable content. 3.4 ! Student editors and the advisor also reserve the right to determine which article will appear on the front page or other pages on the magazine. 3.5! Photographers write their own captions.

3.6! Letters sent to the editors become the sole property of The 4.7 magazine and can be edited for length, clarity and accuracy. 3.7! Publication Credit: Every article will receive a byline. Photographs will receive photo credit in the caption. 3.8! Any articles submitted without following the article submission policy will not be published.

I, ! ! (your name here)! ! , have read and agreed to all the conditions above. I promise fulll the responsibilities of a 4.7 magazine student staff member and writer.

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Date ________________________