Table of Contents

contents vi

About the authors xi

Preface xii

Acknowledgments xiii

Walk through xvi

Timeline xxii

1 Understanding news 3

2 Interviewing and reporting 29

3 News writing 51

4 Writing specialty stories 81

5 Writing feature stories 111

6 Sportswriting 139

7 Opinion writing 165

8 In-depth reporting 189

9 Coaching writers and editing copy 215

10 Writing headlines 245

11 Typography and production 263

12 Newspaper layout and design 291

13 Yearbook design 323

14 Online journalism 347

15 Visual storytelling: pictures, art and graphics 371

16 Advertising in newspapers and yearbooks 405

17 Student press law 427

18 Ethics for student journalists 451

19 Careers in the media 471

Professional and student organizations 485

Glossary 488

Index 498

About the Author

C. Dow Tate is a journalism teacher at Shawnee MissionEast High School in Prairie Village, Kansas, and the director ofthe Gloria Shields All-American Publication Workshop sponsored byDallas County Schools. In 2011, he was named a Kansas Teacher ofthe Year finalist. He was inducted into the Scholastic JournalismHall of Fame at the University of Oklahoma and was named a TexasLegend, as one of the most influential people in the state s75-year scholastic journalism history. His students publications the newspaper, yearbook and news website --have earned the nation s highest honors, including theNational Scholastic Press Association s National Pacemakerand the Columbia Scholastic Press Association s Gold Crown.Tate has been named the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund s NationalHigh School Journalism Teacher of the Year as well as the Texas MaxR. Haddick Teacher of the Year. Sherri A. Taylor teaches graphic design in theMultimedia, Photography and Design Department of the S.I. NewhouseSchool of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She is alsoDirector of the Empire State School Press Association at SyracuseUniversity, and Director of the School Press Institute, a summerjournalism workshop for high school students. As a high schoolteacher in Irving, Texas, she advised a state and nationalaward-winning yearbook and newspaper. She has been inducted intothe Scholastic Journalism Hall of Fame at the University ofOklahoma, was named a Pioneer from the National Scholastic PressAssociation and received a Gold Key from the Columbia ScholasticPress Association. She also received the Max R. Haddick Teacher ofthe Year award, and named a Texas Legend. She has judged theSociety of News Design s international competition and judgedthe Katie awards for the Dallas Press Club. She advises a magazine,MPJ, that has won both Associated Collegiate Press Pacemakers andSociety of Professional Journalists regional and national BestCollege Magazine awards.

Reviews

If you can only use one journalism textbook in yourclass, this is the once to choose. Scholastic Journalism, 12e iscomprehensive, well-organized, and up-to-date and it is sure tomeet the needs of any journalism classes, from those dealing withtraditional news reporting and feature writing to online journalismand graphic design of newspapers, yearbooks, or multimediaprojects. (The Worlds of R. A. Hortz, 1September 2013)