Offers four brief stories on redesigning "The Columbus Dispatch" newsroom, what changes technology caused, what high school teachers should teach photographers, and what skills are needed in packaging the news. (SR)

Describes how a changeover to desktop publishing, working in teams, expansion of the journalism room, and the concept of packaging combined to dramatically change a high school newspaper's approach and product. Argues for a debate on evaluation services. (SR)

Gives a four-step approach to creating a "package" of news items on a featured topic. (SR)

Describes the complete redesign of an award-winning student newspaper from a "stodgy" paper to one that presents the news in "packages." (SR)

Discusses reasons why centerspreads should be an integral part of today's scholastic newspapers. (SR)

Presents guidelines for cropping photographs for student publications. (JL)

Outlines a six-step process that allows computer operators, using Photoshop software, to create "knock-outs" to precisely define the path that will serve to separate the object from the background. (SR)

Discusses the benefits of using grids in yearbook design. Shows how using the grid horizontally makes it easier to design vertical and horizontal packages that work together. (SR)

Discusses the graphics and visual layout of high school newspapers winning the 1975 Gallup Award for excellence in scholastic journalism. (RB)

Lists twenty-five basic layout guidelines to improve or strengthen school newspapers. (MB)

Suggests using a copy machine to make silhouettes, line art, and multiple conversions to help yearbook staffs, advertising staffs, and journalists to create a feature page. (MB)

Outlines a step-by-step approach to creating a grid to help in "packaging" news items on the front page, inside news page, and sports page. Offers a completed prototype. (SR)

Describes how a high school newspaper, in response to a large-scale readership survey, used the concept of "packaging" news (breaking story ideas down into smaller pieces to entice readers) to rethink and redesign the paper. Offers hints and staff goals based on their experience. (SR)

Discusses what a high school yearbook sports staff should deliver to their peers in overall sports coverage. Suggests that keys to good sports coverage are quality action photos that entice readers, "featurized" sports articles, attention to the overall design of the spreads, team photos that which show faces clearly, and a scoreboard on…

Discusses methods for determining the content of an editorial page and for designing and arranging the various physical elements of the page. (MB)