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

Reports on a study in which 255 editorials from a sample of California community colleges were categorized and evaluated. (GW)

Describes electronic publishing, a possible future home for some of today's community college journalism students. (FL)

Suggests ideas for creating centerspread layouts in order to enliven the layout of student newspapers; includes illustrations. (GW)

Argues that journalists and photojournalists require training in the same skills, including the skills needed in news judgment, organization, interviewing, story idea development, and copy writing. (AEA)

Points out the advantages to journalism students of working on student newspaper staffs and discusses principles of news reporting. (GW)

Reminds college newspaper staffs that they need not choose between serving the students' needs and winning journalism awards, since the two are inseparable and that reporting and editorials must be directed toward the students and how news events affect them. (HTH)

Describes the responsibilities of running a one-person journalism department: teaching newswriting and editing courses, acting as both newspaper adviser and academic counselor, and sponsoring activities. (AEA)

Provides suggestions for keeping down costs when reviving a dead yearbook, starting from scratch, or merely making ends meet on a struggling book. (KS)

Describes how a part-time instructor promoted the formation of a student newspaper. (KS)

Tells how the adviser of the student newspaper at West Valley College (Saratoga, California) was dismissed after the newspaper published stories based on investigations into alleged wrongdoings by administration members. (GW)

Describes the campus controversy that erupted when a college newspaper reported that many instances of cheating had been discovered among Middle Eastern students. Questions whether the newspaper story should have been published. (GW)

Provides suggestions for transferring the responsibilities of student-newspaper advisers. (KS)

Describes a college's summer program for gifted students entering fifth through eighth grade, which included production of a student newspaper. (GW)

Suggests ways community college journalism instructors can recruit and retain students in journalism classes (e.g., host a high school press day, fund a journalism scholarship, sponsor events for high school journalism teachers and advisers, serve as counselor for journalism majors, have a yearly journalism convocation, and involve campus…