Points out the importance of the first paragraph of a newspaper story and shows that leads may begin with such elements as the date; a person's name; a quotation; a prepositional, causal, or conditional phrase; or a descriptive sentence. (TJ)

Provides copyreading guidelines for the reporter, the typist, the section editor, and the copy editor; includes a chart of copyreading symbols. (GT)

Provides examples of lively, interesting yearbook copy and outlines 12 rules for writing effective copy. (GT)

Outlines five steps involved in conducting and writing about an interview: selecting a topic, backgrounding, interviewing, writing the interview story, and writing a sidebar that complements the main article. Tells how a journalism student proceeded through these steps in writing an article for his school newspaper, and presents his article. (GT)

Discusses types of sports information, other than the score of past games, that is of interest to readers; offers tips on finding angles for sports stories. (GT)

A class newsletter can help students learn about each other while they gain important social, writing, and interviewing techniques. Computer programs to produce a newsletter, to do word processing, and to manage data are described. (MT)

Offers comments from the judges of a high school newspaper writing contest, who point to problems in student writing and to student problems in distinguishing between news stories, features, and editorials. (GT)

Tells of the importance to news reporters of developing curiosity about everything around them and offers pointers for the improvement of newswriting skills. (GT)

Specific procedures for planning, producing, distributing, and evaluating newsletters are provided in this guide intended for the staff of voluntary organizations who have limited or no prior editing experience. Topics covered include the functions and purposes of a newsletter; staff qualifications and duties, and the organization of a newsletter…

This occupational simulation booklet on the newspaper reporter is one of several units resulting from the rural southwestern Colorado CEPAC Project (Career Education Process of Attitude Change). The purpose of this unit is to help students understand the kinds of writing that are contained in a newspaper while acquainting them with the type of…

Provides specific information for vocational educators who wish to write feature articles highlighting their programs for the local print media. Topics covered include idea gathering, interviews, writing, manuscript preparation, and placement. (CH)

Argues that the best newspaper writing today is in sports but that sportswriting in most school newspapers is dull; offers suggestions for improvement in overall approach, leads, avoidance of cliches and use of action words, quotes, and avoidance of bias. Includes four student-written sports stories. (GT)

Offers tips to junior high school yearbook staff members for improvement in such areas as coverage of academics and student life, caption writing, layout, use of student art, and copy writing. (GT)

Provides pointers regarding seven basic steps for writing a student body public opinion survey news story: selecting a topic, forming some hypotheses, designing a questionnaire, constructing a sample design, collecting the data, analyzing the data, and writing the news story. (GT)

This handbook gives practical suggestions for organizing and conducting publicity campaigns. It is directed to media publicists working for private agencies, studios, stations, or networks; however, the methods and principles discussed apply to all fields of publicity. The book discusses the following topics: the publicity campaign; the press kit,…