Tells how a high school publications staff changed from publishing a weekly newspaper to publishing a bi-weekly newsmagazine; points out successes and problems involved in producing the newsmagazine. (GW)

Shows how the experience of serving as a newspaper reporter during a semester-long sabbatical was of value to a journalism teacher in working with his students. (GW)

Describes how twenty high school journalists published a newspaper covering news about their school and surrounding communities. (MB)

Introduces students to the "invasions of privacy," the problems involved, and the protections needed for publishing news and for printing advertising photos. (MB)

Discusses how the Janet Cooke scandal stimulated journalists to reflect on changes that had occurred in the field since the 1960s and to consider the increasingly visible contradictions of their own authority. Describes how Cooke symbolized both the increased presence of minorities in journalism and changes in reporting conventions. (JD)

Asserts that requiring students in feature writing courses to tape record interviews and submit them with their articles improves the quality and accuracy of quotations, as well as overall story quality. (MM)

Profiles Rheta Grimsley-Johnson, tracing her journalism career from the eighth grade to her present position as a columnist for "The Commercial Appeal." (AEW)

Describes a study to determine the type and quantity of Western news coverage of Third World earthquakes. Finds little evidence of geographical bias in coverage studied, and suggests that care must be taken to examine the underlying news events before bias is alleged. (MS)

Describes the experiences of an American journalism professor teaching journalism at the Institute for Journalism in Beijing, China. (HTH)

Argues that advertising copywriting did not suddenly appear in its entirety, that it came from literature, and that it has a great deal in common with literature and with the writing of Hemingway in particular. (FL)

Suggests having students write short summaries using the principles of the journalistic news "lead" to help them sharpen their abstraction skills. Includes samples of data blocks from which students would compose their summaries, kernel sentences from the samples, "kernel" kernel sentences, first draft summaries, and 30-word…

Presents 10 teaching tips in the areas of advertising, news reporting and writing, interviewing, radio broadcasting, videotape editing, and internships. (HTH)

Discusses problems and patterns in student journalistic writing. (HOD)

Describes various assignments and teaching techniques for teaching journalism students news reporting methods, news writing, photojournalism, and computer generated research papers. (HOD)

Investigates how one media outlet, "Time" magazine, has reported American religion over the past 30 years. Observes that coverage patterns can be explained by its rhetorical protocol which demands action, conflict, and personality. "Time" follows this rhetorical formula in all varieties of news, including religious, because the…