Based on the personal experiences and observations of a person who has worked in the field of high school, collegiate, and professional journalism, this paper discusses the professional press as a preface to examining scholastic publications. The comments on the professional press are: financial stability is necessary for a newspaper to enjoy its…

High school journalists are beginning to look beyond the restrictions of reporting the news of the campus to the larger responsibility of reporting the news of the community. Such a functional approach to news gathering can help school journalists to see the relationship between their school and the community and to discover that learning how to…

In "Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier" (1988), the U.S. Supreme Court said public school officials can censor school-sponsored expression for legitimate educational purposes. The decision raises concerns that high school newspapers no longer will publish controversial information or criticism of school policy. This study, a content…

A study examined the opinions of high school principals and advisers regarding a free student press and adviser role to determine whether opinions and practices had changed since the Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier decision. A survey was sent to both the newspaper adviser and the principal at 531 schools throughout the United States during the spring…

A study investigated the extent to which high school journalism teachers, principals, and local newspaper editors in selected Iowa communities have a common understanding of each other and the issues of high school journalism. A questionnaire sent to 187 newspaper editors, high school principals, and journalism teachers was returned by 118…

Describes what the Columbia Scholastic Press Advisors Association has meant to the author, who has been a high school publications adviser since 1973. Notes that hope is the spirit that keeps advisers and students going, and notes instances for hope and celebration. Notes that writing things down gives them validity and that "what reads easy…

Employing the community attachment model, a study hypothesized that the greater the personal experiences in and the greater the attachments to a community, the greater the reading of the local newspaper. The primary logic is that social ties and feelings of attachment generate needs for information that can be satisfied through reading of the…

The purpose of the study reported here was to determine how many inner city school newspapers had folded in recent years and why they ceased publishing. A random sample of 267 or 25% of the total large central metropolitan (inner city) secondary schools was generated. Principals of 149 such schools replied to the simple, one-page questionnaire.…

A study examined how school newspapers in residential schools for deaf persons acted as a mode of transmission for the issues of the deaf community itself and to the outside world. It investigated the content and format of these newspapers (known collectively as "Little Papers") in four geographic locations in the United States, in an…

Encountering an aggressive student press can be an intimidating and frustrating experience for an administrator. By understanding the rights and responsibilities of a college newspaper staff, administrators can improve their relationships with the press, as well as benefit themselves by using the newspaper to inform campus groups of important…

High school publication staffs depend on national critique services as a major means of evaluation and recognition, but most have no measure of how one critique service compares to the others, because they can afford the entry fee for only one evaluation. Thus, a study was conducted to test the validity of three major national critique…

A study investigated whether scholastic journalism educators agree on definitions of prior review and prior restraint. A total of 83 officers or directors of local, state, or national scholastic journalism organizations, including the membership list of the Scholastic Journalism Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass…

The study described here identified and quantified the primary reasons why college or university student newspaper advisers quit. Members of College Media Advisers, a national organization of college and university advisers, were sent surveys. A total of 233 of 449 members returned the surveys, for a response rate of 52%. Respondents indicated…

Intended to provide a comprehensive conceptual framework to serve as a scaffold for past, present, and future research on "scholastic journalism" (journalism in the secondary school), a topical content analysis of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Secondary Education Division research, teaching,…

A study examined the readership habits and gratifications of southern Illinois student and non-student newspaper readers. The study involved the "Southern Illinoisan," a privately owned regional newspaper, and the "Daily Egyptian," a student-operated newspaper. Other papers included the "Chicago Tribune," the…