The Student Newspaper Survival Guide [Paperback]

Rachele Kanigel (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0813807417 | ISBN-13: 978-0813807416 | Publication Date: August 28, 2006 | Edition: 1

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

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From the Back Cover

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.

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

About the Author

Rachele Kanigel, M.S., is an 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, she teaches 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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 188 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (August 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0813807417
• ISBN-13: 978-0813807416
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 0.5 x 11 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #646,989 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Rachele Kanigel is an Associate Professor of Journalism at San Francisco State University, where she advises Golden Gate [X]press, the award-winning student newspaper, and teaches reporting, writing, ethics and new media courses. In the summer she directs multimedia study-abroad programs with the Institute for Education in International Media (ieiMedia). Professor Kanigel was a newspaper reporter for 15 years for daily newspapers, including The Oakland Tribune and The News & Observer of Raleigh, NC, and was a freelance correspondent for TIME magazine. In 2006 she was named Journalism Educator of the Year by the California Journalism Education Coalition and in 2010 she won the Beverly Kees Educator Award from the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for college newspapers!, April 5, 2008

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This review is from: The Student Newspaper Survival Guide (Paperback)

I got this book when I was assigned to revive a dormant community college newspaper and it was the single most useful resource I encountered. In particular it helped me figure out how to recruit and motivate editors and staff and how to guide student writers in their reporting, writing and revising process. There is a lot of basic and useful information and it's presented in an appealing and easy to grasp manner. There are sections with tips from the pros on topics like investigative reporting, how to write a sex column, how to write a review, and how to gather documents through sunshine laws. The book has easy to follow charts for basic newswriting and story construction, it shows the organization of a typical newspaper staff and the order of events for every news cycle. It has easy to xerox templates for article assignment sheets and more. For each section there are suggestions for further reading both online and in print. About the only thing missing here is a section on how to deal with finances. Still it's a great tool and very readable. If you're looking for a good place to start as a student journalist or a media advisor at the college level, this book has what you need.