Reddit mentions of A NewsHound's Guide to Student Journalism

Additional resources and suggestions to think about:

1. Talk to one of your English teachers about starting a journalism club. Even an English teacher not trained at all in the “rules” of journalistic writing can help you improve your writing. Also it world give your writing focus, an audience, and a place to warehouse it(as an online publication is easiest and cheapest). Also figuring out how to start a school newspaper is great training for understanding how news is made.
   
2. Check out some online resources like these open courses: MOOCs from Michigan State University, Ohio State University, The University of Texas at Austin or News University from Poynter, lots of free educational resources here.
   
3. Read a book (or 40). I’m an English teacher, but when I took over the journalism program at my school I read as many books on journalism that I could find. If your library doesn’t have much, ask them about inter-library loan. You can borrow books from other libraries and get them sent to your library. If you can, get your hands on a copy of the AP Stylebook. Even an older(an cheaper) version would get you the basics of the primary journalistic style in the US. A copy of Katina Paron’s A NewsHound's Guide to Student Journalism is a more student-friendly and less technical introduction tithe basics of news gathering. Highly recommended!
   
4. Read the news. Local, regional, national. Find really good sources to emulate. No paper is perfect, but learn from their shortcomings. Read widely. See how multiple organizations cover the same event. Count the number of sources(both quoted and anonymous).
   
5. Learn the elements of newsworthiness (list ) inside and out. Work on developing you nose for news. What is useful, interesting and necessary for your readers to know?