The Civic Journalism section of the Proceedings contains the following 7 papers: "Resurrecting Critical Theory: Public Journalism" (Gregory Selber); "Constructing Meaning: The Role of the Audience in News Writing" (Jack Morris); "Media Coverage of Sports and Politics: An Examination of the Press' Role in Campaigns for…

The Law section of the proceedings contains the following 6 selected papers: "Is the Public Interest Meaningless? Levels of Meaning and Ambiguity in the Public Interest Standard" (Philip M. Napoli); "An 'Unholy Alliance': The Law of Media Ride-Alongs" (Karen M. Markin); "Is Internet Service Provider Immunity Growing? An…

Describes a newsreading program designed for journalism students in a reporting class. (HOD)

Reports on the coordinated efforts of editing, reporting, and advertising students in publishing a newspaper fashioned after "The New York Times." (HOD)

Describes a basic radio-television newswriting segment that culminates with a script for a five-minute newscast or mini-documentary. (HOD)

Offers school administrators eight suggestions for increasing the amount and quality of newspaper coverage, including writing a regular newspaper column, discussing educational coverage with the managing editor, inviting education reporters to observe school activities, using the district staff's writing talents, and holding news conferences.…

Notes that one of the toughest jobs when teaching future journalists is to convince them to control their use of description while permitting originality in their work. (RL)

Preparing a three-part report about one journalist's work provides journalism students with glimpses of the real world of journalism. (RL)

Highlights playwright Jerome Lawrence's efforts to give journalism students practice in reporting performing and representational arts news events. (RL)

Tells how the student news service at the University of Houston operates to place student writing in area publications and to provide students with assignments for stories needed by specific publications. (GT)

Describes a seminar in which journalism students from five high schools conducted a telephone interview with author/journalist Jessica Mitford, attended media workshops conducted by professionals and university professors, and wrote news reports of the event for a competition in which the best three stories were published in area newspapers. (GT)

Offers tips to junior high school yearbook staff members for improvement in such areas as coverage of academics and student life, caption writing, layout, use of student art, and copy writing. (GT)

A study of a North Carolina newspaper indicates that newspapers using fully integrated electronic editing systems have fewer errors in spelling, punctuation, sentence construction, hyphenation, and typography than newspapers not using electronic editing. (GT)

Reports on a study of news discourse in Hong Kong. The study argues that, across the world of news discourse, in English as well as other languages, there is a very high level of diversity and interdiscursivity of practice. (19 references) (Author/CK)

Notes that the connection between literature and the news stems from journalism's focus on writing and rhetoric, yet journalism could easily reside with history, visual arts, or stand by itself. Contends that journalism, with its focus on fact and objectivity, can and does stand on its own as a precise, rigorous craft and should not be thought of…