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…

Survey data on mass communication students' perceptions of plagiarism and fabrication indicate an ethics gap in which students are more concerned about ethical breaches in journalism than in academics. Further analyses found that the ethics gap increases among students near graduation who had higher levels of concern and suggested harsher…

Provides ideas on how to plan an awards banquet for a high school journalism staff. (RB)

Tells how to make feature articles on school faculty and administration interesting to readers. (RB)

Demonstrates how to shoot and develop black and white film when the subjects are a black, a white, and a Chicano. (RB)

Tells how to develop a filing system for photonegatives. (RB)

Suggests tips for taking candid photographs of people and using the darkroom to find that special shot. (RB)

Suggests ideas for encouraging high school publications staffers to produce consistently high quality work. (RB)

Reports a personal experience in which knowledge of the law helped a student photographer complete an assignment for the newspaper. (RB)

Provides tips that will help improve and maintain good relations between the printer and the publications staff. (RB)

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

Describes several situations in which student journalists in various universities had to handle ethical issues related to compromises of integrity, unethical conduct, and conflicts of interest. (TJ)

Provides a number of suggestions for making use of and profit from the photographs and the negatives left over from the school publications. (RB)

Contains a list of do's and don'ts that are intended to provide high school students with guidelines for preparing headlines. (RB)

Contains a selected annotated bibliography of 51 items covering articles published from January through August, 1974, organized under the following categories: advertising, broadcasting, media criticism, editorial policy, graphics, job opportunities, pedagogy, and photography. (RB)