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Agents of social change is a phrase once widely used by Canadian student newspapers to describe a doctrine of activist civic journalism. ==Origin: 1965-68== The phrase was first used in 1965 at the annual conference of Canadian University Press in Calgary, when a delegation led by the ''McGill Daily'' proposed and passed an amendment to CUP's statement of principles that said "one of the major roles of the student press is to act as an agent of social change." The motion's authors argued that university students, including student journalists, had a special role to play in the social and civil-rights revolutions of the time, and objective reporting could not achieve this. Instead, student journalists had to take sides on social issues, and guide campus opinion accordingly. CUP's leadership soon realized that being "agents of social change" meant that distanced, objective reporting was impossible. In 1967 CUP removed all prohibitions against "unbiased" reporting from its charter, replacing the word "unbiased" with "fair." In 1968, CUP fleshed out the 1965 "agents of social change" clause into a longer list of resolutions, reading as follows: *that the major role of the student press is to act as an agent of social change, striving to emphasize the rights and responsibilities of the student citizen; *that the student press must in fulfilling this role perform both an educative and an active function as agents of social change; *that the student press must present local, national and international news fairly, and interpret ideas and events to the best of its ability; *that the student press must use its freedom from commercial and other controls to ensure that all it does is consistent with its major role and to examine what other media avoid. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Agents of social change」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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