Free software!

Hey everyone-

If you want to make your newspaper look superfine, download some free software and start publishing!

1. Go to http://www.download.com/
2. Click on "Design Tools" (on the left hand side)
3. Click on "Desktop Publishing" (on the left hand side)
4. Look for "Microsoft Publisher" or "Adobe Pagemaker"
5. Download the free trial software.
6. Create a beautiful newspaper

Journalism links

Some of you may be stressing out about this assignment, so I thought I'd give you a few websites to help you sharpen your journalism skills:
http://www.ohlone.edu/people/bparks/basic_news_writing.html
This article looks long, but it's full of great info. Focus on the stuff under these headings:
The 5 'W's
News Values
The Nut Graph

For really basic journalism stuff:
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/journalism/resource/6042.html


These are nice examples of author interviews:
Amy Tan http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/12.14.95/tan-9550.html
Kurt Vonnegut http://www.progressive.org/mag_intv0603


I'll try to get more links up over the weekend!