Provides eight reasons that journalism teachers and publications advisers give when asked why they teach--and like teaching--journalism. (MB)

Reports on a study which focussed attention on advisers' attitudes toward political reporting in school news media and on the nature and scope of such reporting. (MB)

Provides photocopy-ready lesson aids on story ideas, interviewing, inverted pyramid writing style, newswriting, sports/scavenger hunt, finding feature material, identifying feature leads, feature lead selection, evaluating feature leads, compiling survey material, cutlines, headlines, paste-up rules, advertising, final semester project, newspaper…

Describes how journalism students can learn basic reporting skills by writing news stories from popular children's stories, fables, rhymes, or songs. (MM)

Concludes that reader enjoyment is related to both syntactic and semantic unpredictability. (FL)

Reports on how computerized broadcast stations prepare the news. Discusses implications for news and education, pointing out ways teachers can prepare students for computerized newsrooms.

Describes a reporting exercise that yields a publishable story from a company's annual report. (HTH)

Presents guidelines for teachers who wish to have their journalism students cover national election events as if they were real reporters. (CRH)

Delineates the impact that telecommunications has had on the knowledge and training required of high school journalism educators and their students. (AEA)

Designed for small group instruction, this fifth-grade classroom activity deals with the creation of a special edition newspaper commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The activity contains five roles for students (historian, journalist, cartographer/illustrator, biographer, scientist), and each group is to produce…

The use of the case method technique in a newswriting course stresses intensive analysis and discussions of carefully chosen "cases"--professionally written feature stories--that show what a feature is and how one should be written. (HOD)

Discusses how a writer can communicate scientific research results accurately. The author describes the procedures of the scientific method that are used to conduct valid research and suggests that writers consult experts to evaluate the validity of new research. (AM)

Describes the development of a booklet on careers in journalism for students in a high-school journalism class based on interviews of former high-school graduates who had become journalists. (HOD)

Reports on the positive effects of coordinating a journalism research course emphasizing survey methodology with upper-level courses in news writing. (RL)

Argues that the right combination of creativity and reporting is what makes the difference between feature stories that are read and feature stories that are ignored. (RL)