Provides suggestions to student journalists concerning coverage of campus news, direct quotes, front page art, headlines, and use of profanity; cites effective features in specific college newspapers; and lists noteworthy facts about college newspapers. (GW)

Presents journalism writing awards for 1977 in four catagories: feature story, news story, editorial, and sports story. (MB)

Examines sports writing from new perspectives: psychology, sociology, history, and photography. (MB)

Discusses methods for determining the content of an editorial page and for designing and arranging the various physical elements of the page. (MB)

Uses poetry and skeletal outlines of similes to stimulate students' use of imagery in their feature writing. (HTH)

Presents an exercise in which students must write five broadcast leads from five of the major newspaper stories reported on the day they were born. (HTH)

Examines how four newspaper characteristics and seven types of news releases related to publications. Concludes that weekly and twice-weekly newspapers print more releases than daily papers and that past events, features, and institutional news releases are almost never printed. (SRT)

Offers a method for teaching students about ethical journalism and new journalism using a favorite short story and asking questions such as "How is truth in fiction different from the truth in a news story?" (SRT)

Indicates that, across three circulation categories, there are differences in the research process, availability and use of resources, and how writers rate usefulness of sources. Finds that most editorial writers make use of various sources for ideas and background material. Shows that some writers disagree about how much research is needed to…

Schools need to take responsibility if they want news about positive programs and events in their schools to be covered in the local media. Nine guidelines are provided for schools to follow to develop effective public relations with the press. (MD)

Describes a newswriting exercise to teach coverage of public speaking events in which students were asked to report on Jesus Christ's Sermon on the Mount. (HTH)

Recommends playing Anne Murray's recording of "A Little Good News" to promote discussion about the nature of news and Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billy Joe" for discussion on writing news stories about suicides. (CRH)

Identifies the advantages students have over community media persons in covering high school athletics and encourages writers to work with rather than compete with local media. (CRH)

Points out the need to identify subject characteristics and, whenever possible, to individualize instruction to attain optimum performance. (RB)

An examination of the way welfare reform is presented in the national news media can provide insight into which aspects of the reform news consumers consider important. This study used a content analysis to examine all stories about welfare reform in the national press from: (1) June through August 1996, during which time the federal legislation…