Discusses the need for student journalists to know their First Amendment rights by learning about press law. (MB)

Presents ways to develop a series of stories on a single topic. Suggests that a writer must develop fresh facts or a fresh angle for each issue. (JK)

Discusses how to teach students about the role of values, empathy, imagination, and hypothesis in reporting while encouraging them to use their intelligence and experience in reporting to develop insight, thereby educating themselves and their readers. (SRT)

Outlines a program that allows high school students to produce their school newspaper in the offices of the "Bellevue Journal American." (DF)

Presents a method that has student reporters write headline suggestions on their stories before submission to avoid nonsignificant headlines. This technique was judged worthwhile by three professional copy editors. (CRH)

The Media Ethics Division of the proceedings contains the following 10 papers: "Punctuation and Epistemic Honesty: Do Photos Need What Words Have?" (Scott Fosdick and Shahira Fahmy); "A Bellwether in Media Accountability: The Work of the New York 'World's' Bureau of Accuracy and Fair Play" (Neil Nemeth); "Eight Arguments…

Offers teaching tips for journalism courses focused on advertising, court issues, news writing, editing, and video display terminals. (HOD)

Personal qualities of a good news director at a college are identified: good news sense, personal integrity, strong verbal communication skills, initiative, and versatility. Characteristics of creative spirit, news judgment, confidence, a sense of timing, and the ability to make even the mundane come alive are described. (MLW)

Examines the effects of media coverage of biomedical innovations, such as industrial recombinant DNA, on public opinion and public awareness of scientific events. (JMF)

Science journalism is in a period of change from its prior position of reporting the pronouncements of scientists to one of challenging the conclusions of scientists and using multiple sources to comment on scientific discovery. It is necessary that educational institutions anticipate the need for competent scientific journalists. (RE)

Science writers must be acutely aware of the impact, both potential and actual, of their craft in ensuring that the public has adequate useable information necessary for them to control decisions on public issues where science and technology are involved. (RE)

Discussion of cooperative learning focuses on the benefits of using computers. Research that explored benefits of group versus individual computer use is reviewed, size of computer groups is discussed, differentiating tasks to accommodate individual differences is considered, and a cooperative computer project for a newswriting unit for fourth…

Presents a variety of techniques and topics that can be used to bring information about ethnic and racial minorities into most of the courses in a journalism program. Provides ideas for student research projects and seminars. (MG)

States that newspaper and magazine journalism tend to depict handicapped persons as victims. Explains that teachers can help eliminate this stereotypic imagery through writing and critical reading exercises. (GG)

Shows how findings from science education, instructional design, and educational psychology can help journalism students develop explanatory skills for technical phenomena. Emphasizes understanding readers' key difficulties, appreciating distinct explanatory goals, and practicing well-tested explanatory strategies. Discusses key difficulties and…