There are a lot of materials out there, so many that we might throw up our hands and wonder where to start. When information comes in such volume, we need gatekeepers.
I'm here to volunteer. Check these books and online resources out:
Tim Harrower - The Newspaper Designer's Handbook - This remains the single best resource for teaching all aspects of print design.
Tim Harrower - Inside Reporting (the top textbook for colleges now, and one of several options for high school). I recommend finding used copies, with this Amazon link as a good starting point, as new copies are quite expensive (they were priced for the college textbook market)
Bobby Hawthorne - The Radical Write - Find it here on Amazon.
Roy Peter Clark - Writing Tools (plus any of his other books!). You can read his original weekly posts, which I collected many years ago, online on my ISSUU.com collection.
You can find links to all his books here on Amazon. He is the foremost writing coach in the country, recently retired from the Poynter Institute for Media Studies.
For the online advising class I teach each summer, I created an open Facebook page called "Media Advisers Share," which contains random posts from the past 5-6 years, all with advisers as the imagined audience.
I also add content regularly to the Colorado Student Media Association Facebook page, and it can function as a quick time machine taking you to tips and controversies and all sorts of helpful links. You can find the CSMA Facebook page here.
Your one-stop location for exploring press law and ethics is www.splc.org. The Student Press Law Center serves high school and college journalists and their advisers, and provides free legal support, when necessary (let's hope it's not!).
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