Suggests that yearbooks, like other journalistic media, should treat deaths of students and faculty honestly, factually, and tactfully. (JM)

Describes characteristics of the University of Missouri at Columbia's feature-writing course: heavy assignment loads, strict grading, absolute deadlines, and emphasis on publication. (KS)

Discusses the work of David Weir, who believes that reporters need to cultivate open-mindedness, detachment from their own work, and ability to see beyond their own prejudices and predispositions to alter hypotheses to fit the facts. (SRT)

A class newsletter can help students learn about each other while they gain important social, writing, and interviewing techniques. Computer programs to produce a newsletter, to do word processing, and to manage data are described. (MT)

In this interview Art Buchwald, whose column of political humor now appears in 550 newspapers around the world, talks about his life and career, his sources of ideas, whether there is a place for humor in the school curriculum, and the state of American humor today. (RM)

Examines the differences between readability levels of human interest stories and current affairs articles in two daily newspapers. (AEA)

Given the increasing influence of public journalism on the daily routines of newspapers across the United States, students need to be taught how to find a workable balance between consulting and reporting on conventional information sources and consulting and reporting on the perspectives provided by ordinary citizens. This paper discusses ways in…

Reports on the use of videoscreens at daily newspapers in Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming. Discusses the unchanged role of reporter, the changing role of the editor, and the changing relationship between newsroom staff and the back shop. (JMF)

Suggests ideas for finding and writing good feature stories for the school newspaper. (HOD)

Journalism rules for writing lead lines to articles are reviewed. Examples of leads made effective by observing or breaking these rules are discussed. (HTH)

Suggestions to student journalists on learning to write effective, attention-grabbing leads to news stories. (RL)

Offers comments from the judges of a high school newspaper writing contest, who point to problems in student writing and to student problems in distinguishing between news stories, features, and editorials. (GT)

Suggests a technique for helping journalism students learn writing style and become familiar with a stylebook without taking large amounts of class time. (TJ)

Tells of the importance to news reporters of developing curiosity about everything around them and offers pointers for the improvement of newswriting skills. (GT)

Suggests the importance of writing newspaper stories with a fresh angle and illustrates the point liberally. (TJ)