Looks at the experiences of Richard Gilbert, reporter and assistant editor for "The Herald Telephone," a daily newspaper in Bloomington, Indiana, and discusses Gilbert's suggested guidelines for high school journalism advisers. (MS)

Interviews rookie reporter Rob Karwath, recent graduate of the University of Kansas journalism school, concerning his education, school newspaper experience, internships, and current job at the CHICAGO TRIBUNE. (SR)

Discusses topics for humorous feature stories dealing with significant questions that confront teenagers and can increase reader interest. (SRT)

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)

Advocates setting up a "beat system" for high school newspapers to use to provide updates on established areas of coverage, such as administrators, department chairs, club and class sponsors, sports, the school board, the city council and even the custodians. Includes examples of ways to incorporate this information into brief updates in…

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)

Provides pointers for news writers in such areas as approaching a story, conducting an interview, using quotations, and protecting sources. (GW)

Describes several sports situations and possible approaches to reporting them in the school newspaper; points out the importance of effectively reporting athletic activities while maintaining a proper perspective of the role of sport in the academic community. (GW)

Presents "team coverage" by high school journalism students of the trial of a high school student charged with burglary, confinement, murder, battery, and arson. Notes that covering the trial was the experience of a lifetime for the reporters. (RS)

Recounts the author's experience writing a series of stories about a patient with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). (MS)

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)

Discusses good writing and good reporting in high school journalism. Presents writing tips, editing tips, and discusses weak writing (such as backward and cluttered sentences) and good writing. (SR)

Discusses pet peeves and suggestions for improving yearbook sports coverage from six high school yearbook experts. (SR)

Shows how humorous material can be scattered throughout the high school newspaper through the use of humorous featurettes; presents examples of humorous material taken from professional and high school newspapers. (GW)