Explains how a photo wheel can speed newspaper layout. (FL)

Examines the live television news show produced by students and faculty at Northern Illinois University with the aim of helping others avoid some difficulties and frustrations when setting up a similar show in their journalism curriculum. (TO)

Discusses the successful use of the Apple Laserwriter printer in the production of the student newspaper at a Florida university. (HTH)

Describes the Circulation Management Project being developed by the Empire State College of the State University of New York--a program designed to upgrade the newspaper circulation department. (HOD)

Describes a project in which students planned and produced a cable television program. Contains the guidelines used in the project and a statement of the philosophy underlying it. (FL)

Describes the use of the laboratory newspaper approach, in which a newspaper is produced by students under the supervision of the jouranlism program, by Central Missouri State University. (HOD)

Discusses the technology that makes possible the use of microcomputers for entering news copy that can then be read and printed by a computerized typesetter. Discusses the advantages and other considerations of such a system. (HTH)

Evaluates the effectiveness of interactive multimedia instruction in a video production class as compared to the typical classroom lecture. Finds that students using the interactive multimedia system did not score higher on a posttest than students who attended lecture. (SR)

Discusses some of the changes in journalism quality--not all of them necessarily good--precipitated by electronic newsroom technology in the newsroom. Encourages journalism faculty to take advantage of the opportunity to study first-hand what these changes mean, noting that, historically, this is only the third transition print production has…

Discusses the feasibility and advantages of using microcomputers for teaching newspaper page design and layout. (HTH)

Outlines a course experiment in which a public affairs reporting class utilized cable television facilities to produce a magazine show and thus learn the differences between working in print and an electronic medium. (CRH)

Journalism students at two Texas universities learned important things about television news production when they switched newsrooms and studios for a day. (RL)

Journalism teachers share ideas about copywriting assignments, research in public relations, student involvement in a television production, and the use of journalism classes to monitor language skills. (HOD)