Do you want to make your college newspaper the best it can be? Do you want to increase readership, boost advertising revenue, improve staff morale, win awards?

The Student Newspaper Survival Guide will help you do all these things. Whether you're a reporter or editor, photographer or designer, ad sales rep or business manager, this Web site -- and the accompanying book -- has tips, resources and strategies to help you do your job better and put out a professional-quality publication.

The book can be used as a textbook for a laboratory publication classes or as a handbook for students working on independent newspapers. In these pages, you'll learn how to cover a campus; report news and feature stories; develop a media kit; shoot newsworthy photographs; design and lay out pages; produce original content for the Web; and write reviews, editorials, headlines, captions and columns. The book includes chapters on Investigative Reporting, Legal Issues, Ethical Issues and Starting a New Newspaper. And it features examples from some of the best student publications in North America.

Special features include:

* Tips from professional journalists, including film critic Roger Ebert, columnist J.R. Labbe and cartoonist Nate Beeler

* Checklists on designing pages, writing headlines, editing stories, selling ads and other skills

* Interviews with former college newspaper staffers

* Sample documents, such as employment applications, copyright policies, evaluation forms for college newspaper staffers.

* A list of contests for student journalists

Useful Web Sites for Student Journalists:

College Media Advisers

Associated Collegiate Press

Student Press Law Center

College Front Page

College Newspaper Business and Advertising Managers

The Center for Innovation in College Media

Poynter Institute for Media Studies

NewsUniversity

For more useful sites check out the chapter-by-chapter listings