The Student Newspaper Survival Guide is a handbook for student reporters, editors, page designers, photographers, Webmasters, advertising sales representatives -- and the advisers and business managers who counsel them -- on all aspects of putting out a college newspaper.

In these pages, students will learn how to report stories, design pages, shoot compelling photos, cover a campus, sell ads, report on games, and write reviews, editorials, features, headlines and columns. In addition, the book includes chapters on Ethical Issues, Investigative Reporting, Recruiting and Training a Staff, Legal Issues and Starting a New Newspaper.

The book can be used as a textbook for publication laboratory classes or as a handbook for students working on independent newspapers. It also features examples from some of the best college newspapers in the country.

Special features include:

• Tips from professional journalists
  
• Interviews with former college newspaper staffers
  
• Checklists on writing headlines, editing stories, designing pages, selling advertisements and other skills
  
• Exercises and ideas you can try at your own campus newspaper
  
• Examples of award-winning pages, stories and photos
  
• Sample documents, such as employment applications, licensing contracts, evaluation forms
  
• A list of contests for student journalists