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" 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

Rachele Kanigel, M.S., is assistant professor of journalism at San Francisco State University, where she advises "Golden Gate X]press" publications. Her students produce a weekly newspaper, a multimedia Web site updated throughout the week and a magazine that comes out three times a semester. In addition to advising publications, sheteaches Newswriting, Reporting, the Contemporary Magazine and Magazine Editing. Professor Kanigel was a newspaper reporter for 15 years for daily newspapers, including "The Oakland Tribune" and "The News & Observer" of Raleigh, North Carolina and was a freelance correspondent for "TIME" magazine. She has also written for "Health, Organic Style, People, Reader's Digest" and other magazines. She is chair of the Professional Development Committee for College Media Advisers and is Vice President of the California College Media Association.