Student Newspaper Survival Gui - Paperback

by Rachele Kanigel (Author)

The Student Newspaper Survival Guide has been extensively updated to cover recent developments in online publishing, social media, mobile journalism, and multimedia storytelling; at the same time, it continues to serve as an essential reference on all aspects of producing a student publication.

• Updated and expanded to discuss many of the changes in the field of journalism and in college newspapers, with two new chapters to enhance the focus on online journalism and technology
• Emphasis on Web-first publishing and covering breaking news as it happens, including a new section on mobile journalism
• Guides student journalists through the intricate, multi-step process of producing a student newspaper including the challenges of reporting, writing, editing, designing, and publishing campus newspapers and websites
• Chapters include discussion questions, exercises, sample projects, checklists, tips from professionals, sample forms, story ideas, and scenarios for discussion
• Fresh, new, full color examples from award winning college newspapers around North America
• Essential reading for student reporters, editors, page designers, photographers, webmasters, and advertising sales representatives

Back Jacket

Student newspaper production has greatly evolved since the first publication of this book in 2006, with increased emphasis on their Web sites, and many taking a Web-first approach to publishing news and incorporating multimedia storytelling. New delivery devices and technologies for transmitting breaking news now exist, such as microblogging and streaming video from cell phones. Social networking tools have created the opportunity to communicate with readers and to disseminate news in different ways.

This new edition of The Student Newspaper Survival Guide discusses how these rapid technological developments can positively affect the efficiency, effectiveness and creativity of student newspapers. At the same time, it continues to successfully guide student journalists through the intricate process of producing a student newspaper.

Updated features of the second edition include:

• A new chapter on Social Media, including how to make use of Facebook, Twitter, CoveritLive and other tools to report and distribute news
• A new chapter on multimedia that explains the basic concepts of digital storytelling and offers tips on recording audio, shooting and editing video, producing slideshows and creating interactive graphics
• An expanded chapter on websites, including breaking news online
• Fresh, new, full colour examples from college newspapers around North America
  

Author Biography

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 and new media courses. She has directed summer multimedia study-abroad programs in Italy and France 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, Four-Year Division, by the California Journalism Education Coalition.