Described in this booklet are the planning, implementation, and evaluation stages needed in the development of a career education newsletter, a publication by the local school which keeps the community informed of career education activities and events. This guide explains the factors which must be determined in the production of the newsletter,…

This paper describes an episode in the history of journalism that reveals a continuing tension in news reporting. Dating from the invention of the telegraph in the late nineteenth century, news reports have been increasingly patterned after either a "scientific" or a "literary" model. The scientific report is based on irreducible facts, high-speed…

This paper discusses three conceptual problems--point of view, unit of bias, and behavioral response--with using content analysis to study news bias. The paper shows that the point of view of the content analyst is not appropriate if one wants to see how news consumers define and react to bias, that the unit of bias should be the specific instance…

This paper narrates the history of a young printer, John Prentiss, who established the New Hampshire Sentinel in 1799--a paper which remains a community newspaper today. Examples of writing from Prentiss's training and experience explain why he was able to survive in newspaper publishing when others failed. Acknowledging that the United States…

This pamphlet was prepared to teach certified public accountants (CPAs) the skill of oral communication, in order to prepare them for an increasing number of news interviews on financial and business events. It stresses that the best interests of both CPAs and the general public are served if relations with the press are marked by friendliness and…

"Freedom's Journal," the first newspaper published by blacks in the United States, originated in 1827 and lasted for two years. This article examines the form and content of the journal and considers some of the previous research on it. The article states that the journal contained the first report of a lynching that was published in the United…

Outlines ways that a school newspaper can celebrate an important school or newspaper anniversary, through articles and art, showing how styles, student activities, controversial issues, school facilities, and academic programs have changed over the years. Includes page reproductions from an anniversary issue of a high school newspaper. (GW)

Reports poor scores for college students asked to define the meanings of ten foreign words placed in and out of context. Urges news writers to use words familiar to the audience, or else to provide parenthetical or other explanations of unfamiliar or foreign words. (RL)

Sending a questionnaire and story clipping to news sources provides feedback for students and gives instructors an indication of student behavior and accuracy while "on the job." (RL)

Presents ten news situations and outlines factors that editors might consider in deciding whether they should publish news accounts of the situations. (GW)

Teaching students to write effectively for an audience involves students learning to talk freely in class until the teacher becomes one member of an audience, not an audience of one. The system works in a supportive, nonthreatening environment where the teacher admits his vulnerability and enters the learning-coping process as its guide. (JMF)

Lists fads and discusses the danger of copying such fads in scholastic journalism. (MB)

Describes how a high school journalism teacher established a student news bureau to channel information about schools in the school system to the local media; lists advantages of the news bureau to its staff members and to the school system. (GW)

Describes a project, which begins with coloring a mural and ends with writing a news story, designed to illustrate the difficulty in communicating within an established framework of rules. (KS)

Describes a successful working relationship between staff members of a high school newspaper and the school principal who acts as a staff photographer. (MB)