{"id":83507,"date":"2015-10-01T11:37:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T16:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=83507"},"modified":"2015-10-01T13:59:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T18:59:55","slug":"vcsu-professor-listopad-receives-first-amendment-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=83507","title":{"rendered":"VCSU&#8217;s Listopad receives First Amendment Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/listopadsteve.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-83508\" alt=\"listopadsteve\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/listopadsteve-240x300.jpg\" width=\"168\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/listopadsteve-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/listopadsteve-140x175.jpg 140w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/listopadsteve.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/a>Valley City (CSi- VCSU)\u00a0 Steven Listopad, assistant professor and director of student media at Valley City State University, received a Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award at a reception at the Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Listopad was honored for his work in support of the John Wall New Voices Act, a bill \u201cwhich ensures the free-speech rights of journalism students in North Dakota public schools and colleges.\u201d Listopad was a leading advocate of the bill, which unanimously passed the North Dakota legislature last session and went into effect in August 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The Hefner Foundation cited Listopad \u201cas a shining example to teachers everywhere when he helped his students craft the nation\u2019s strongest and most comprehensive statutes protecting North Dakota student journalists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other recipients of 2015 First Amendment Awards were Victor Navasky, editor of Nation magazine, who received a lifetime achievement award; James Risen, New York Times investigative reporter; writer\/activist Malkia Amala Cyril; and professor\/activist Zephyr Teachout.<\/p>\n<p>The Hugh M. Hefner Foundation was established to work on behalf of individual rights in a democratic society.\u00a0 The primary focus of the foundation is to support organizations that advocate for and defend civil rights and civil liberties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City (CSi- VCSU)\u00a0 Steven Listopad, assistant professor and director of student media at Valley City State University, received a Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award at a reception at the Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015. Listopad was honored for his work in support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":83521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83507"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83520,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83507\/revisions\/83520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}