A journalism professor explains how working as a news reporter for a local newspaper contributed to his credibility as a teacher. (FL)

Discusses the professionally based "performance review" used to assess students' journalistic potential and ability in the Capital News Service program at Michigan State School of Journalism. Includes the performance review itself, which evaluates accuracy, communication skills, reporting, and writing. (SR)

Shows why the "screw model" of news story organization helps journalism students to visualize the way stories should and should not be structured. (RL)

Honors Bill Moyers as the 1982 recipient of the American Society of Journalism Administrators Citation of Merit. (HOD)

Argues that the criteria used in deciding news value has little to do with how editors and reporters operate in the everyday world of journalism. Contends that journalists' knowledge of news is reducible to their common-sensical understanding of it. (MS)

Discusses emerging practices in graphics courses, how graphics affects writing and reporting, and the danger of reporters overillustrating. (MG)

Shows how a teaching technique raises questions about how to get, interpret, and report the important facts of a news story. (RL)

Provides suggestions for giving potential investigative reporters a general overview of the topic in first-year reporting and writing classes. (KS)

Asserts that students need a solid background in world affairs, and that this end can be achieved by making world affairs personally meaningful to students. Describes a project that attempts to help make this connection, and supplies relevant story ideas and questions for an editing assignment. (MS)

Points out that interviewing is an important task of reporters that gets too little classroom time. Suggests ways to use videotape to help students see themselves in actual interview situations. (TJ)

Journalism schools have the responsibility for teaching both practical news reporting and news writing skills but must also ensure that students understand the role of the press in a free society. (KS)

Reports the findings of a study of those in U.S. journalism programs who are training students to become sports journalists. Examines who they are, whom they are teaching, the type of courses they are teaching, the textbooks they use, and what attention, if any, is given to women's sports in these classes and textbooks. (SR)

Explores the issues and problems that have emerged in news reporting of rape. Evaluates the adequacy of journalism texts and other materials in relationship to the teaching of these issues. Proposes an approach to improving journalism training on rape-related issues. Discusses appropriate material for an introductory reporting course and describes…

The author develops students' appreciation for accuracy in reporting by having them write correction notices for stories in which they made mistakes in the facts, and by withholding assignment grades until corrections have been submitted. (RL)

The author gives journalism students practice in "finding" news by requiring them to write a "hard news" story for a self-imposed deadline during each week of the course, thus creating the atmosphere of actual on-the-job news reporting. (RL)