Notes that the keys to "beat" reports are accountability and personal contact. Discusses ways to tie students' generation of story ideas from their beat to their final grade and to make personal contact with the news sources on their beat. Includes a beat report form and a student survey form. (RS)

Explains how high school journalists can serve as powerful leaders within the school by recognizing at least four journalistic functions of a newspaper: informing, explaining, analyzing, and persuading. (DF)

Reports on an analysis of more than 200 high school newspapers which showed that only nine papers included humor on a regular basis. Uses excerpts from those nine newspapers to illustrate how humor can be used. (FL)

Discusses how to use sidebar stories to cut down very long stories. Presents several examples of effective sidebars from school newspapers. (RS)

Proposes using the community surrounding a school as a source of story ideas. (FL)

Offers a roundup of what happened to high school newspapers and yearbooks when Mt. St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980. (FL)

Discusses the administration's view of student journalism and the student press, as presented by one high school principal. Recognizes the value of journalism as an effective teaching/learning tool and recommends that educators stimulate rather than stifle students' ideas. (KEH)

Maintains that good news reporting requires hard work, careful research, and even more careful verification. Notes that there is nothing old fashioned about news reporting, except that, like fine antiques, good news reporting in scholastic publications is hard to find. (RS)

Discusses three ways to improve and strengthen a school newspaper's image through effective public relations designed to (1) encourage readers to react; (2) solicit comments from parents, news sources, community leaders, and politicians; and (3) encourage the school board to respond. (RS)

Provides tips for uncovering story ideas for high school newspapers. (FL)

Presents tips for selling ads in school newspapers. Discusses getting started in sales, the sales call, after the sale, and beyond the basics. (SR)

Offers four brief stories on redesigning "The Columbus Dispatch" newsroom, what changes technology caused, what high school teachers should teach photographers, and what skills are needed in packaging the news. (SR)

Discusses the validity of evaluation procedures in this first of a series of four articles about critiquing publications. (AEA)

Discusses the difference between schooling (the process of getting an education) and education (the product of that process). Explains the role of the student press in dealing with both areas. (FL)

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