Presents techniques for weaving quotes into a stylish feature story. Describes "Quote Framing" and "Split Quotes," and gives different levels of appropriate and inappropriate uses for each. Suggest that most professional newspapers and magazines are working examples of correct form for the use of quotations, direct and…

Studied the coverage of juvenile crime in the Hawaiian press. Analyses of a master list of 649 newspaper articles for a 10-year period show a wide disparity between the output of articles and actual youth crime trends. The media also tended to focus on gang activity in its coverage of youth crime. (SLD)

Contributes to scholarship on journalistic narrative method, socially responsible journalism, and journalism education by examining a three-part series in the "New York Times" portraying life on a single block in Harlem. Finds that the systematic use of personalization reproduced stereotypes and suppressed evidence that would counter…

Presents a story package from the high school newspaper "The Northern Lights," called "Deadly Decisions." Includes an editorial, an eyewitness account, a timeline of the coverage itself, an interview with a local TV reporter, photographs, and a graph of the events the stories covered. (SR)

Argues that using evocative details makes for truly effective high school yearbook stories. Notes that the art of observation is crucial. Describes the difference between telling a story and showing it with details that will help the reader see and feel the story through these powerful images. (SR)

Reports findings of an ongoing study of cadet reporters at the media in Germany, Australia and Hong Kong. Concludes that regardless of the politico-cultural and linguistic contexts, qualities such as accuracy, thoroughness of research and clarity of writing remain the basics of any journalistic education. Notes the media organization has the…

Suggests knowing the basics is critical if newspaper advisers and staffs are to move their newspaper into the best, excellent, superior, above average, all-everything category a scholastic press evaluation service may award. Discusses the basic areas of writing, design, photojournalism, advertising, and overall coverage. (RS)

Presents advice to scholastic journalists on writing leads for feature stories. Discusses using a summary, a question, a direct quote, a first-person account, alliteration, a shocking statement, contrast, historical reference, descriptions, narratives, metaphors, and similes. (RS)

Describes the attitude of the author, a journalism instructor, who emphasizes in his classes that journalism is work worth doing, even fun, despite the fact that its hard work for low pay. Notes the importance of accomplishing this while also demanding meticulousness in students' work. Describes ways the author accomplishes this. (SR)

Magazine writing courses lean heavily on a model borrowed from journalism, but this is not the only, nor the most advantageous, model to apply to magazine writing. Despite the differences between the constraints that magazine writers and news writers face, many texts on magazine writing are reminiscent of textbooks on basic news writing. However,…

A study tested the notion that information stories in "USA Today" are more readable because its editors shorten them by leaving out background details. It also examined whether readers comprehend as much from stories written in "USA Today" style as they do from stories written in the more traditional "New York Times"…

The New Journalism, which uses literary techniques usually restricted to fiction, has been categorized and analyzed from a number of perspectives, but little effort has been made to delineate its intellectual and philosophical roots. The New Journalism arose from the intellectual tradition of Romanticism, as opposed to Classicism, the movement…

A study examined cohesive reference in a newspaper report of a law case, with the intention of helping students read such texts. Occurrences of two classes of items signaling referential cohesion were analyzed: personals (personal pronouns and possessive adjectives) and demonstratives (including the definite article). Factors that might lead a…

The ways contemporary American journalists view themselves and order their experiences in their autobiographies stem from the reporter-as-celebrity phenomenon. As a result of this phenomenon, many journalists are writing their autobiographies when they are fairly young, and creating larger-than-life personas of themselves, which tends to emphasize…

A study determined what beginning journalists and news reporting students have learned is acceptable to quote, verbatim, in a news story, and where they learned about these guidelines. Results of a questionnaire given to journalism students indicated that most would change direct quotes by adjusting blasphemies, correcting faulty grammar, cleaning…