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…

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…

A Pennsylvania high school newspaper published an editorial in Fall 2013 announcing its decision to cease using the name of the school's sports teams, Redskins. That decision prompted the local school board to institute a policy giving administrators more editorial control over the newspaper. The controversy resonated with U.S. 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 work of student journalists often appears as a source in the footnotes when researchers tell the story of perhaps the most significant period in the history of higher education in the United States--the student protest era throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. Yet researchers and historians have ignored the student press itself during this…

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)

Discusses the use of photo stories in school newspapers and offers on-campus and off-campus story ideas. (GT)

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

Suggests that one of the biggest high school newspaper stories of the year is senior graduation and that it deserves better and more thorough coverage. (RB)

Discusses the role of the critic in journalism and argues that student journalists should confine their critical reviews to professional performances and should write straight news stories of school performances. (TJ)

Presents ways of writing arresting sports stories for high school newspapers. (JM)

Offers suggestions and techniques for bringing a school newspaper to "life" taking into consideration the question of censorship. (HOD)

Describes the different kinds of stories that may appear in the school newspaper and lists additional suggestions for feature stories. (RB)

Tells how one high school newspaper staff devoted an entire issue to sex without creating controversy. (RB)