An experiment conducted with students in news reporting classes revealed that information sources said to represent groups received more emphasis and more complete coverage in news stories than did sources said to be unaffiliated with groups. (GT)

Examines the importance of a working knowledge of the mechanics of the English language to good professional journalistic writing. Finds that newspaper editors judge reporters on their writing mechanics, expressive skills, and journalistic abilities. Finds that reporters judge themselves accordingly. Finds that English majors scored better than…

Describes how the content of a high school yearbook can focus on service journalism. (MM)

Describes a news story as a text prototype dominated either by telegraphic or by narratological tendencies in content selection and organization. Shows how the former strategy leads to feature accumulation typical of American English news writing, and how the latter, characteristic of German and Polish news styles, shows affinities with everyday…

Suggests that a background in geography would enhance a journalist's ability to report disasters that had their origins in human behavior, rather than natural disasters. Argues that incorporation of geography courses into journalism students' curriculum would provide them with a perspective that synthesizes knowledge from a number of disciplines…

Offers a strategy for editors to coach good story ideas about the school out of young journalists. (SR)

Describes the very first interviewing and writing assignment that introductory students do in a high school journalism class. (SR)

Offers a description of the journalistic way to write, condensed into the acronym CODE (Collect facts, Order, Development, and Edit). (SR)

Surveys 140 randomly selected profit and nonprofit organizations covered in 7 newspapers, and interviews journalists and organizational respondents. Finds that systematic discrepancies between organizations and reporters on the salience, selection, and interpretation of news reports were more common for public sector mechanistic bureaucracies of…

Gives a four-step approach to creating a "package" of news items on a featured topic. (SR)

Describes the complete redesign of an award-winning student newspaper from a "stodgy" paper to one that presents the news in "packages." (SR)

Presents the front pages (or home pages) of 16 high school newspapers that covered the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. Includes brief comments from advisers on how they approached covering the attacks. (RS)

Discusses how a high-school journalism adviser shifted from a newspaper format to a magazine format that comes out few times a year. Suggests the magazine format is more flexible, creative, and well-thought-through. Notes it requires some attention to detail, commitment to longer stories, and in-depth coverage. (RS)

Presents "team coverage" by high school journalism students of the trial of a high school student charged with burglary, confinement, murder, battery, and arson. Notes that covering the trial was the experience of a lifetime for the reporters. (RS)

This document briefly discusses how headlines initially seem to be irrelevant to e-content, until the reader looks further. Examples of headlines are listed in this document. It is suggested that things may be clearer if some headlines from outside of mainstream or popular news publications are added. Examples of these are also listed.