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…

In the history of US news media, partisanship, class, race, and gender biases have always infused the press and that coverage has often been shaped behind closed doors by those with the greatest power. People of color have been systematically excluded from the press, both in general society and on college campuses. However over the past several…

The article documents the process by which four independent high school students from the Francis W. Parker School in Chicago and the faculty adviser of their school newspaper, "The Weekly" (a monthly), produced a daylong journalism symposium designed to promote and explore democratic education, student leadership, and professional…

While the scale of the environmental problems facing the planet mean that effective environmental journalism is now more important than ever, the environmental beat can be extremely challenging for journalists. One way to address this is by providing specialized training for future journalists. This study involves an investigation of the extent to…

The author describes two 9th grade experiences that began his transformation from a lackadaisical student into a motivated learner. In the first incident, a word of advice from a teacher made him aware that his actions mattered. In the second, his engagement in writing a story for the school newspaper taught him the power of discovering new…

Subjective reporting by the campus press is a reversion to news reporting prior to 1835. (DB)

Offers basic tips for improving the quality of photographs in a student newspaper. (GW)

Describes a method of making prints that can produce interesting photographs. (TJ)

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

Describes the "Daily Pinion" at McKinley High School in Honolulu, one of only a few high school daily newspapers in the United States. (SR)

Offers ideas on ways to increase readership of the editorial pages in college newspapers, including the masthead, using a variety of design elements, and making it truly a students' newspaper by running plenty of letters to the editor. (SR)

Suggests ways for student journalists to produce newspapers with credibility. (RB)

Describes how one junior high school newspaper won a first place award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. (RB)

Provides a list of fourteen layout ideas intended to improve the appeal of the high school newspaper. (RB)