Suicide is an important issue facing students on college campuses. Student journalists face unique challenges covering suicide, including ethical considerations related to headline wording, text descriptions, and sourcing. Health advocates, news outlets, and professional journalism organizations partnered to develop guidelines for responsible…

Objective: Media framing of health issues reflects public opinion and impacts readers' perceptions and behavior. This study examines how meditation -- a recommended stress coping strategy for college students -- is framed in campus newspapers from 1997-2018. Participants: A total of 494 articles were analyzed. Methods: Semantic network analysis…

Explores the educational role of the campus newspaper as an open forum for ideas and opinions from diverse sources and its legal restraints and responsibilities in so doing, as reflected in a review of recent court cases related to the issue. (RS)

Considers the implications of a court decision on administrative censorship of advertising in school newspapers. (RL)

Investigates the substance use-related content of a sample of student-run college newspapers. Basic information about alcohol and other drug (AOD) use was reported in about one-fifth of the items, while three-fourths dealt with social, legal, safety, or health problems associated with AOD use, especially alcohol consumption. Very few dealt with…

Reports the experience of a faculty journalism adviser who was dismissed from his position because of a controversial editorial that appeared in the high school newspaper. (RL)

Examines trends in magazine graphic arts and layout, as well as the impact of these trends on yearbook and school newspaper design. (HTH)

Tells of the devastating effects California's Proposition 13 is having on community college journalism education programs. (GT)

Examines the perceived influence of alcohol advertising in a daily campus newspaper on the drinking behaviors of students. Findings indicated that college students do perceive that their drinking patterns are influenced by alcohol promotions in the campus newspaper and, furthermore, that self-identified binge drinkers were influenced significantly…

In Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a school principal's decision to delete several stories from the school newspaper. However, the ruling failed to adequately address two related areas involving what constitutes school-sponsored speech and how broadly could schools regulate that speech. (CB)

Discusses the necessity of being aware of what constitutes libel in secondary school publications and offers examples of materials that may be libelous, including letters to the editor, quotations, photographs, headlines, and picture captions. (DF)

Guidelines for making decisions about the content, coverage, and organization of a college newspaper. (RL)

Discusses a court decision to suppress an edition of a high school newspaper. Traces the precedents on which the court based its decision and suggests that the decision is in contrast to most other recent court decisions involving school newspapers. (TJ)

Contains information on typesetting machines currently on the market. [RL]

Suggests books about publication design; discusses current trends in school newspaper design; and provides reproductions of gridded newspaper page layouts from student newspapers and of layouts from professional newspapers. (GT)