This study explores a Capstone course's pedagogical process and considers both the challenges and triumphs that emerge from experiential learning within a news desert region. The research employs micro-ethnographic methods to analyze the learning outcomes gleaned by both students and instructors of one magazine publishing Capstone course over the…

In this study, I investigated how student publications portrayed whiteness as the dominant feature of the campus environment between 1945 and 1965 among the member institutions of a consortium of elite U.S. Midwestern liberal arts colleges located in rural and industrial towns across Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and western Pennsylvania. These…

This article features the diaries and letters of a college student, John Price, who attended Denison University from 1917 to 1921. It shows how Price was pushed and pulled into writing in the extracurriculum by his literacy sponsors, which resulted in his founding a humor magazine as "the jock" took over as "the big man on college…

An Ohio principal and former language arts teacher developed a student publishing shop to encourage writing by rural elementary students. The project involved cooperation among teachers, parents, and volunteer, and featured student writing centers in many classrooms. Student-made books were published on a fairly tight schedule, using donated…

Discusses how student journalists provided coverage and answers for high school publications during the energy crisis that crippled Ohio in the late winter of 1977. (MB)

Argues that high school journalism teachers must emphasize the difference between law and ethics, especially with regard to stories on controversial topics. Reviews several of these stories published in a high school newspaper in Columbus, Ohio. (MS)

A study identified the principal ways in which high school newspapers are funded in Ohio, particularly with respect to the public or private nature of the schools, the paper size, frequency of publication, the methods by which papers are printed, and the sorts of staffs that publish them. Of the 1,080 high schools listed for the state, 228…