Reporting Skills

How to report critically on the food, housing, and services students pay for every semester without turning it into a complaint list.

How to report responsibly on booster payments, recruiting rule questions, and compliance investigations touching your own athletic department.

Reporting tips for covering international and exchange students as individual sources with real stakes, not as one interchangeable feature angle.

A protocol for reporting fast during a lockdown, closure, or weather event without spreading unverified information your readers act on.

A practical process for splitting reporting duties across several staffers and merging their notes into one coherent story.

A framework for reporting tuition and budget decisions with real numbers instead of just quoting the administration’s press release.

A practical system for tracking sources, documents, and timelines when a story stretches across several weeks instead of one deadline.

A short guide to the arithmetic student reporters actually need: budget lines, attendance estimates, and percentage change.

How student reporters can responsibly cover city council, local business, and community stories that affect students but happen off campus.

Why student papers default to the same handful of easy sources, and a practical system for building a wider, more representative source list.