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The Student Newspaper Survival Guide

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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.