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Describes how to create winning picture stories. Discusses subjects, editing, and page design. Offers examples of pictures that tell a story. (PRA)

Provides photographs and descriptions of attention-getting layouts used in high school and college yearbooks, magazines, and newspapers. (DF)

Reports on the advantages and disadvantages of desktop publishing, using the Apple Macintosh and "Pagemaker" software, to produce a high school yearbook. Asserts that while desktop publishing may be initially more time consuming for those unfamiliar with computers, desktop publishing gives high school journalism staffs more control over their final product. (MM)

Summarizes how infograhics are produced and how they provide information graphically in high school publications. Offers suggestions concerning information gathering, graphic format, and software selection, and provides examples of computer/student designed infographics. (MM)

Explains how a high school literary magazine staff accessed the journalism department's Apple Macintosh computers to typeset its publication. Provides examples of magazine layouts designed partially or completely by "Pagemaker" software on a Macintosh. (MM)

Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using an Apple Macintosh in a high school journalism department. Details the software available in the categories of layout ("Xpress" and "Pagemaker"), word processing ("Microsoft Word"), and graphics ("MacDraw,""Cricket Draw,""MacPaint," and "Full Paint"). (MM)

Discusses how to use information graphics successfully. Describes how to conduct a survey and transform the results into an information graphic. (MM)

Describes how to teach the stages involved in creating good advertising layouts. (JL)

Discusses how to use sidebar stories to cut down very long stories. Presents several examples of effective sidebars from school newspapers. (RS)

Describes ways for school newspapers and yearbooks to better communicate through "infographics" (a graphic representation of primarily statistical data that helps to tell the story). (RS)

Explains good graphic design and gives examples using the student literary magazine "Runes." (CRH)

Offers tips on effectively and cheaply incorporating student graphics and photography into a literary magazine. (CRH)

Explains an editorial policy for a high school newspaper that requires using the editor of the local professional newspaper as publications chair. (DF)

Explains the Students Newspaper Advisory Program (SNAP) at the Call-Chronicle Newspapers in Pennsylvania that provides area high school school staffs the opportunity to use the Call-Chronicle's technical equipment and professional guidance to produce publications. (DF)

Discusses the benefits of having high school students produce an issue of their school paper at the office of the "Pierce County (Washington) Herald," using its equipment and following the advice of professionals. (DF)

Presents guidelines for cropping photographs for student publications. (JL)

Suggests using design grids to enhance layout instruction in advertising courses. (AEA)

Describes a one-semester high school journalism course taught in the building of the "Contra Costa Times" in Walnut Creek, California. (DF)