Gives suggestions on style and materials for beginning editorial cartoonists. (HTH)

Guidelines for critical evaluation of speeches, a skill seldom taught in journalism courses, are given in the areas of content, organization, rhetoric, and environment (CORE). (HTH)

Provides suggestions for helping journalism students keep informed of local and regional news events, an area in which most students are very weak. (HTH)

Describes the journalism education career of a Fullerton College, California, instructor. (KS)

Reminds college newspaper staffs that they need not choose between serving the students' needs and winning journalism awards, since the two are inseparable and that reporting and editorials must be directed toward the students and how news events affect them. (HTH)

Reports on the coverage of California's October 17, 1989, earthquake by student reporters for "The Laney Tower," the campus newspaper of Laney College. (DMM)

Offers a personal account of a loaned executive program, whereby a Southern California Edison corporate communications employee served as interim chair of Cerritos College's journalism department. Reviews benefits to the firm and the college, and lessons learned during the experience. (DMM)

Presents data showing that progress for women in journalism education has been minimal, but points to a few encouraging signs of progress. (AEA)

Reviews issues related to the future of journalism discussed at a February 1993 conference of the Journalism Association of Community Colleges. Describes the changing demographics of professional journalists and the new demands that will be placed upon them by a changing workplace. Discusses techniques for conducting investigative reporting. (MAB)

Examines ways in which college journalism instructors can promote their programs in times of shrinking budgets. Provides over 40 suggestions for increasing student participation in journalism programs, funding special projects, and promoting greater departmental visibility on the college campus. Includes a "Top Ten" list of promotional activities.…

Describes the development of a journalism telecourse that, rather than present videotaped lectures, uses footage from interviews with practicing reporters and television news anchors to illustrate themes and processes in the field. Discusses issues related to the designing of the program, obtaining interviews with eminent journalists, and…

Describes an interview between a newspaper editor and a job applicant to show an editor's considerations in hiring reporters; offers tips to journalism graduates on preparing job applications. (GW)

Outlines areas that deserve more attention from community college journalism educators, including career guidance for students and education of college counselors regarding journalism careers. (GW)

Includes reports from three divisions of the Association for Education in Journalism: "Exchanging Teaching Ideas, Practices Major Aim of Photojournalism Division,""Secondary Education Division Promotes Journalism in Any Setting," and "Graphics Division Emphasis Shifting toward Development of Teaching Aids." (KS)

Presents some of the findings of a study which describes, analyzes, and interprets the role and function of the California Journalism Articulation Committee. (KS)