I. Creation and Purpose
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- Spinnaker News, the official publisher of the University of North Florida;
- Spinnaker Radio, the official radio station of the University of North Florida;
- Spinnaker Television, the official television station of the University of North Florida;
- Spinnaker Business; and
- Spinnaker Creative Services Department, the official student-run marketing and promotions outlet of the University of North Florida.Spinnaker Media serves as the umbrella organization over student-run media outlets at the University of North Florida. The student-run media outlets are:
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- formulating yearly budget requests for itself, Spinnaker Business, Spinnaker News, Spinnaker Creative Services, Spinnaker Radio and Spinnaker Television.
- endorsing those budget requests to the appropriate funding bodies each year;
- providing support to each of the student outlets and the Media Adviser;
- assisting each medium in developing goals and objectives for the year and evaluating the performance of each of the outlets based on those goals; and
- selecting the leadership for each of the student outlets.Spinnaker Media, through its Advisory Board, is responsible for
- Spinnaker News, Spinnaker Creative Services, Spinnaker Radio and Spinnaker Television are granted certain freedoms defined by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Spinnaker Radio and Spinnaker TV are guided by the regulations promulgated by the Federal Communications Commission. Spinnaker Media outlets' content independence is expressed in their institutional statement of relationship with the university. Spinnaker Media also recognizes that with freedom comes responsibility, and the student-run media outlets must abide by the rules, regulations and body of law set forth specific to each.
- Spinnaker Media shall be guided by the direction and advice of the Media Adviser, a position in the Division of Academic Affairs at the University of North Florida who must
- be approved by the Chair of the Department of English at the University of North Florida;
- have experience and knowledge in the respective fields of each media entity;
- have knowledge of the process and procedures involved with creating synergy between the respective media outlets;
- display fiscal understanding regarding each entity's budget request; and
- be responsible for day-to-day oversight of the operations of the individual media outlets in Spinnaker Media in cooperation with the student leaders of each outlet. Assisting and advising does not include the right to dictate or to punish for editorial content.