Shows how humorous material can be scattered throughout the high school newspaper through the use of humorous featurettes; presents examples of humorous material taken from professional and high school newspapers. (GW)

Lists and explains six aspects which are critical to a high school newspaper. (MB)

Discusses one of the most difficult problems in the adviser's career, teaching journalism students to substitute disciplined thought for non-rational stereotyping in their reporting and writing. (LJR)

Discusses the benefits of a team-teaching approach in sports news writing classes that maintains a broad journalistic perspective while improving specific skills for reporting in either print or electronic media. (RL)

Describes an in-depth unit in investigative reporting taught to high school students in a first-year journalism course. Discusses reports written by teams of students and outlines positive results of the unit. (GW)

Describes types of sports stories and features that are important to comprehensive sports reporting in high school newspapers and newsmagazines. (Author/GW)

Describes how several computer programs can be of assistance to educators in teaching news writing and in informing students about newsroom information processing. (KS)

Describes the reference books that are part of the new equipment in editing and reporting laboratories at the Indiana University School of Journalism. (KS)

Gives a brief history of Samuel Mickle Fox, the founder and editor of America's first student newspaper, the "Students Gazette." (MB)

Discusses the ways in which to start and write a news story. (JM)

Explores the problem of what should be included in the school newspaper and discusses the topics of some recent stories printed by student journalists. (JM)

Suggests that, in order to give students real-world newspaper experience, schools model the news-stringer service developed at the University of Colorado at Boulder. (KS)

Cites examples of statements which are libelous and statements which are not, describes the three main defenses against libel, and offers practical advice to writers. (MB)

Describes an advisers' class project (at the University of Oklahoma) which consisted of reporting on the casting of a bronze plaque bearing the names of the first school newspaper, "The Students Gazette," and its editor, Samuel M. Fox, for presentation in Philadelphia to commemorate scholastic journalism's Bicentennial. (MB)

Presents a detailed study of two newspaper reports published on the same day and describing the same event. The study reveals (1) different attitudes concerning the need for objectivity in news reporting and (2) the complex and covert nature of the textual features through which bias is communicated. (SED)