The Student Newspaper Survival Guide

The Student Newspaper Survival Guide is a handbook for student reporters, editors, page designers, photographers, Webmasters, advertising sales representatives - and the advisers and business managers who counsel them - on all aspects of putting out a college newspaper. In these pages, students will learn how to report stories, design pages, shoot compelling photos, cover a campus, sell ads, report on games, and write reviews, editorials, features, headlines and columns. In addition, the book includes chapters on Ethical Issues, Investigative Reporting, Recruiting and Training a Staff, Legal Issues and Starting a New Newspaper. The book can be used as a textbook for publication laboratory classes or as a handbook for students working on independent newspapers. It also features examples from some of the best college newspapers in the country. Special features include: tips from professional journalists; interviews with former college newspaper staffers; checklists on writing headlines, editing stories, designing pages, selling advertisements and other skills; exercises and ideas you can try at your own campus newspaper; examples of award-winning pages, stories and photos; sample documents, such as employment applications, licensing contracts, evaluation forms; a list of contests for student journalists.

The Student Newspaper Survival Guide has been extensively updated to cover recent developments in online publishing, social media, mobile journalism, and multimedia storytelling; at the same time, it continues to serve as an essential reference on all aspects of producing a student publication.Updated and expanded to discuss many of the changes in the field of journalism and in college newspapers, with two new chapters to enhance the focus on online journalism and technologyEmphasis on Web-first publishing and covering breaking news as it happens, including a new section on mobile journalismGuides student journalists through the intricate, multi-step process of producing a student newspaper including the challenges of reporting, writing, editing, designing, and publishing campus newspapers and websitesChapters include discussion questions, exercises, sample projects, checklists, tips from professionals, sample forms, story ideas, and scenarios for discussionFresh, new, full color examples from award winning college newspapers around North America Essential reading for student reporters, editors, page designers, photographers, webmasters, and advertising sales representatives