Discusses elements of an editorial page masthead with respect to two considerations: what information to include or leave out, and visual appeal. (GT)

Provides simple guidelines for designing advertisements for school newspapers; includes illustrative advertisements from a Chicago high school newspaper. (GT)

Offers the views of a professional feature writer on ways to write good feature stories. (GT)

Reviews good paste-up techniques for student newspapers; includes descriptions of necessary tools, how to do layouts, and how to finish by handling the wax on the paste-up sheets properly. (TJ)

Redesigning a school newspaper with a knowledge of the basic rules of layout can deliver new excitement and improved readability to the newspaper. (HOD)

Offers advice to the school newspaper sales person so an account will not only be sold but will be properly serviced. (HOD)

Profiles Jesse Coronado, editor-in-chief of the University of California student newspaper, and outlines his plans to enlist minority staff and to broaden the paper's minority coverage and appeal. (HTH)

Provides examples of featurettes--very short feature articles--and offers suggestions for writing them. (GT)

Offers ideas for making an editorial page interesting and relevant. (HOD)

Shows how to improve sports coverage in the high school newspaper through such techniques as previewing upcoming events, spotlighting newsworthy people, investigating sports issues, providing statistics, and equalizing coverage of all-school sports events. (GW)

Discusses how to analyze business planning and methods which can help a school newspaper. (MB)

Suggests a number of unusual approaches to holiday-related feature stories. (GT)

Points out the necessity for college newspapers to ask for bids from several printers. Suggests several basic considerations that should be part of the bids, indicates some optional services that might be used during the year, and urges colleges to ask for references. (TJ)

Provides examples and suggestions to aid newspaper staffs in keeping news solidly grounded in the community by probing how it pertains directly to the interests and concerns of the school and community. (GT)

Tells how a weekly high school newspaper switched to a front page format built in most issues around a single story or subject; includes reproductions of the front pages of six different issues. (GT)