High School Journalism

by Homer Hall

Includes a brief history of American journalism and discusses the duties of a journalist, styles of writing, the parts of a newspaper, newspaper and yearbook design, photography, and careers in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823906485
• ISBN13: 9780823906482
• Release Date: March 1987
• Publisher: Rosen Publishing Group
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

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Convers all basics of high school journalism, many good examples. Not current with latest technology, but a very usable text. I'm considering ordering a class set, if the shipping cost isn't too high.

High School Journalism

The book, High School Journalism, by Homer L. Hall was something I picked up off the library shelf thinking "Well, who knows, maybe there'll be a good idea or two in here." I, myself am a high school journalist and after looking through this book, I have many new ideas for my staff.The Brief History of American Journalism is interesting and concise, but also a little overwhelming because the entire span of journalism is fit into ten pages. The Style and Editing chapter points out such common mistakes that sometimes, even good copy editors miss them. The Stylebook, is full of all the information any editor should know. The following chapters give tips on how to write different types of articles, i.e. news, sports, etc. This book is aimed to help both newspaper and yearbook staffs and it does so quite well.My only qualm with this book was the exercises following each chapter. Perhaps this book was meant as a text book to be used in class, but they seemed to me to be frivolous, especially in the large numbers of them.Overall, I will use this book to raise the level at which my staff produces our paper, and I believe it could be very helpful to anyone.