Examines 14 texts for college students in newswriting courses to determine their treatment of news values. Concludes that uncertainty reigns. (HOD)

Suggests that "gatekeeper" studies about subjective judgments can be useful in helping graduate journalism students appreciate the role that personal preferences and prejudices play in the selection of news. (HOD)

Concludes that by distancing themselves from highly competitive but tainted phenomena, newsworkers and their organizations are able to meet their fundamental role obligation to create news while minimizing threats to their professional autonomy. Presents three examples of such attempts. (PD)

Provides observations about the errors that beginning journalists make. Offers suggestions for helping beginning journalists to improve their writing skills. (RL)

Three journalism educators suggest cultural reporting (reporting as literature) as an alternative approach to teaching journalistic writing, one that might please both the research-minded and the practice-minded factions of journalism education. (RL)

Evidence from broadcast news copy (examples of improper language usage and faulty journalistic practices) suggests that journalism educators should stop trying to imitate local stations and start trying to improve the profession. (RL)

Offers advice and illustrations of ways to make high school news and feature stories timely, relevant, newsworthy. (RL)

Writing press releases can help make students aware of the importance of reader orientation, because the same case and the same facts can be used for different audiences with different results. (RL)

Offers guidelines for developing a realistic yearbook theme; describes the theme developed by a yearbook staff whose school had had a troubling year, and includes copy excerpts and page reproductions from their opening and closing spreads. (GT)

Describes a course designed to give journalism students functional knowledge in business and economics so that they can become business news reporters. (RL)

Provides pointers regarding seven basic steps for writing a student body public opinion survey news story: selecting a topic, forming some hypotheses, designing a questionnaire, constructing a sample design, collecting the data, analyzing the data, and writing the news story. (GT)

Suggests using different newspaper accounts of the same news event to help composition students begin to understand that there is more than one correct way to write. (TJ)

Points out that writing errors of journalism students can result from faulty thought patterns involving thinking in sentence fragments, personifying objects, using bureaucratic abstractions, and condensing complex ideas; examines ways of dealing with bureaucratic coding and compressed sentences. (Conclusion of a two-part article.) (GT)

An analysis of issue-oriented and event-oriented social issues stories in eight major daily newspapers revealed that 61.3 percent of all sentences analyzed were not attributed to a source. (GT)

Finds that in the areas of readability, interest level, and thoroughness, the news in community daily newspapers was not significantly better than that produced by students. (RS)