Critiquing the Competition
Journalism 101, Community Newspapers, gathers for the fourth and final lecture of the spring term. We have discussed what an editor looks for in...
On Judging a Newspaper
Our series on community journalism continues: Lesson 1 concerned how to get an article ready for publication. Lesson 2 was how to arrange a...
Newspaper Logic
My fifth grader came home from Community Park School in Princeton the other day with a math problem that went something like this: ...
On Editing U.S. 1
How do you edit a weekly newspaper such as U.S. 1? Where do you begin, what do you do, and how do you know...
On Duct Tape, Snowstorms, and Valentines
Here’s a week that began with a search for duct tape, switched to a scramble for a snow shovel, and ended with a belated...
Nancy Drew’s Lessons of Life
My two boys are inveterate readers. Around my house Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Lemony Snicket are consumables for these two boys,...