Packed with tested tips, techniques and time-savers--including over 100 reproducible exercises, forms and letters--"School Newspaper Adviser's Survival Guide" helps you in all aspects of the job--from organizing staff and workspace, and handling production details, to training students in good newswriting style and the journalistic approach. Four sections cover staff organization and mission, newswriting, layout, and time management.
Packed with tested tips, techniques and time-savers--including over 100 reproducible exercises, forms and letters--"School Newspaper Adviser's Survival Guide" helps you in all aspects of the job--from organizing staff and workspace, and handling production details, to training students in good newswriting style and the journalistic approach. Four sections cover staff organization and mission, newswriting, layout, and time management.
Patricia Osborn combines experience in education and professional journalism in her background. After majoring in journalism in college, she held positions as newspaper reporter, state editor and advertising copywriter before entering the field of education to become the adviser of award-winning high school newspapers as well as teacher of English and department chairman in Toledo, Ohio, public schools. Her published works include Reading Smarter; How Grammar Works (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.); Poetry By Doing; and Finding America. She has written articles, short stories and poetry for such magazines as Educational Digest , Gifted Children's Magazine, School Arts, Fine Arts Discovery, Builders, and TV Guide. Additional experience includes editing an award-winning newsletter, doing volunteer public relations for jazz organizations and serving as judge for the Great Lakes Interscholastic Press Association's annual newspaper contest. She is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English and Journalism Educators Association. A graduate of Bowling Green State University, Osborn was page editor of the BG News and assistant editor of the yearbook. She also has taken post-graduate course in television writing and production.
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Acknowledgments iii
About the author iii
About this resource iv
Unit 1 Gaining Perspective, Gaining Control
1-1 Priority and progress assessment 5
1-2 Staff application 12
1-3 Application for editor and staff positions 14
1-4 Code and contract for staff members 16
1-5 Staff manual: Job descriptions 19
1-6 Reporters' special duties 26
1-7 Special duty assignment sheet 27
1-8 Portfolio contents 29
1-9 Progress report: Special duty assignments 30
1-10 Daily staff diary 32
1-11 Purpose and advantages of publishing a school paper 34
1-12 How medium affects message 39
1-13 Dialogue box: Your chance to speak out 50
1-14 Checklist for fine-tuning your paper's coverage 52
1-15 It's the law! Hazelwood School District vs. Kuhlmeier January 13, 1988 57
1-16 The student press as public forum: Right for schools and students 60
1-17 Sample policy statement 61
1-18 Mission statement 64
1-19 Ground rules for reporting sensitive and controversial issues 65
1-20 Controversial and sensitive issues: What course to take 67
