Describes five common headline styles, how to place them properly, and their advantages and disadvantages. (SRT)

Suggests ways high school yearbook photographers can shoot pictures that will "tell the story" of their school. (JL)

Recommends using a feedback form to help student reporters solve problems relating to the accuracy of direct or indirect quotation of sources. (JL)

Provides guidelines for high school editors to help improve their paper's operation, image, and content, including devising a style manual and covering school board, faculty, parent, and administration activities. (HTH)

Outlines several steps to follow to write exciting and lively news or feature stories. (SR)

Presents transcripts of a "good" interview and a "bad" interview. Gives role-playing exercises for interviewing and using quotes. Instructs the teacher to make specific points about what was done well and what could be done better. Discusses how using these exercises can make learning to be a reporter fun. (SC)

Discusses techniques used to write a monthly celebrity interview column for a high school newspaper. (RL)

Intended for Thompson Valley High School newspaper faculty advisers and student staff, this handbook provides a model for organizing and publishing a student newspaper, the "Thompson Valley Voice." In addition to an introductory section, the handbook contains four parts. The policies section contains staff rules, policies, grading system, job…

Provides a mini-unit on editorial writing for journalism advisers to use directly with staff members in an independent study situation. (TJ)

Shows the editor's viewpoint in the development of a news story on drug abuse in a North Philadelphia Puerto Rican community. Relates problems of working with a reporter, remaining accountable to the public good, and protecting employees and sources in a potentially dangerous situation. (LS)

Explains the three basic components of journalism: reporting, writing, and interviewing. Stresses the importance of accomplishing the three components and provides guidelines for all three functions. (LS)

This guide provides a description and step-by-step instructions for the use of "Newsroom," a desktop-publishing program for the Apple II series of microcomputers produced by Springboard Software Inc. Based on the 1984 version of the program, this two-hour exercise focuses on the design and production of a newsletter with text and…

This collection of 18 brief, informative news stories with datelines from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries is intended to provide students with an understanding of how the press has helped to develop and has been the beneficiary of many of the freedoms all Americans enjoy. The collection can also be used in a straight historical context as the…

Brennan discusses the daily activities required in the production of a television news show. In "The Not-So-Glamorous Life of a TV Reporter," Linda Yu describes the time and effort required to become a television reporter. (LS)

This booklet accompanies the New York State Library exhibit of material related to the trial of John Peter Zenger. This 1735 trial established the legal precedent giving juries the power to decide libel suits. Labeled "the germ of American freedom," the trial was an important step in the development of American concepts of free speech…