In order to build skills in editing on a VDT, journalism students need additional experience to equal those handling copy with a pencil. (KS)

Describes games designed to reinforce Associated Press (AP) writing style and the verbal skills and thought processes used by editors. (HTH)

Describes a strategy to increase students' awareness of journalistic ethics through making ethics the topic of news stories. (KS)

Originally presented as a speech at the Association for Education in Journalism convention, this article discusses the role of journalism educators, the importance of freedom of the press, and the need for good public relations by the press. (RB)

Describes a first exercise in photojournalism and discusses how it can introduce students to such central issues as the rules of composition, the methods of editing, the ethics of dealing with subjects, and the role of the process in politics and culture. (SR)

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)

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)

Reveals that the rate of error detection was poorer with video display terminals than with pencil-and-paper editing; students using the terminals also took longer to detect errors. (KS)

Reports on the findings of a 1976 survey of 131 journalism departments which indicated that the trend toward use of electronic editing equipment is strong. (KS)

Describes the reference books that are part of the new equipment in editing and reporting laboratories at the Indiana University School of Journalism. (KS)

Proposes that educators need to take some risks and break out of the familiar patterns of teaching. Finds that teaching students risk-taking as a method to write news stories is rewarding for both the students and the teacher. (MS)

Explains how a computer and a large-screen television can help journalism instructors teach editing and writing skills. (FL)

Indicates that electronic equipment can produce a high quality newspaper at lower costs, according to an informal survey. (RB)

Offers four ways to help first-year reporting students get on the right copy-editing track: copy edit three times, copy edit aloud, use a tape recorder, or read a story backwards. (Author/RL)