Juanita Phillips Newspaper Kids series
 

Shortcuts by Marieke Hardy


 Remote Man - Elizabeth Honey

 Seek by Paul Fleischman - A boy decides to write his school assignment
 autobiography in the form of a radio play.

 Monster - Walter Dean Myers - A boy is on trial for involvement in a
 robbery that went wrong, resulting in the death of a shop keeper. He copes
 with his ordeal by telling it as a movie script.

 Star Girl - Jerry Spinnelli - One of the main characters is involved in a
 school television station.

 Big Mouth and Ugly Girl - Joyce Carol Oates - The big mouth of the story
 works on the school newspaper and gets into trouble when he jokingly
 threatens to blow up the school. He is overheard and anonymously reported
 and then ostracised.

 David McRobbie's sequel to Mum, me and the 19C

 has a send up of a current affairs program reporter and editor as
a major part of the storyline. 

 The news they didn't use, by Stephen Measday, UQP 1995