Recommends a newspaper approach to organizing a feature and opinions section in student magazines. Offers suggestions for feature areas. (HTH)

Points out the difference between a journalism exercise and real journalism and calls for a return to newsgathering and reporting in school newspapers and newsmagazines. (TO)

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)

Exposes some of the myths behind yearbook production, such as the fact that the "magazine approach" to production dates back to the 1920s. Criticizes the "Disneyation" of yearbooks--deliberate omission of "negative" material. Cautions that newspaper advisors generally make poor yearbook advisers. Argues that the most…

Presents brief descriptions of the ten high school and college newspapers that won the 1976 Pacemaker Awards for journalistic excellence and creative presentation. (GW)

Reviews the 1973 college (Associated Collegiate Press) and high school (National School Press Association) Pacemaker newspapers. (TO)

Lists the nine high school and college newspapers, and the one newsmagazine, that won Pacemaker Awards in 1978; discusses characteristics that make each of them outstanding, and provides reproductions of a front page from each publication. (GT)

Defends the reporting of controversial topics in school publications on the basis that suggestions for the responsible solution of problems are necessary in a democracy. (RB)

Presents an overview of distinctive features of the ten high school and college winners of the 1977 Pacemaker Newspaper Awards; then reproduces a front page from each of the publications and presents additional information about each. Includes judges' comments on each of the winning publications. (GW)

Indicates that prizewinning school publications differ from good publications in having three qualities: wide-ranging content reflecting organized, creative approaches to coverage; intelligence and sensitivity in content; and thoughtful design. Includes illustrations from prizewinners. (TJ)