There’s so much out there for a journalism teacher to take advantage of. Check out our first list of great resources to help make your job easier.

1. Newspaper Designer’s Handbook by Tim Harrower
2. Inside Reporting by Tim Harrower
3. The Radical Write by Bobby Hawthorne
4. 55 Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark
5. Coaching Writers by Roy Peter Clark and Don Fry
6. Journalists Who Made HIstory by James Satter
7. The Writer’s Complete Guide to Conducting Interviews by Michael Schumacher
8. A Reporter’s Life by Walter Cronkite
9. Somebody Told Me by Rick Bragg
10. Extraordinary Women Journalists by Claire Price-Groff
11. The Essential Feature by Vicky Hay
12. How to Write Funny edited by John Kachuba
13. The Complete Book of Feature Writing edited by Leonard Witt
14. Blow by Blow – columns by Steve Blow
15. This Just in by Bob Schieffer
16. The Press edited by Geneva Overholser and Kathleen Hall Jamieson
17. Writing Creative Nonfiction by Theodore A. Rees Cheney
18. Start with Why by Simon Sinek
19. Reviewing the Arts by Campbell B. Titchener
20. Dear Viola by William Bridges
21. Team Building Activities for Every Group by Alanna Jones
22. The Copy Workshop Workbook by Bruce Bendinger
23. Writing For Story by Jon Franklin
24. Master the Media by Julie Smith
25. Ad Mania by John Cutsinger and Shirley Moravec
26. The Editor’s Toolbox by Buck Ryan and Michael O’Donnell
27. Journalism Teacher’s Writing Manual by Bobby Hawthorne
28. Editing for High School Readers by Merlin R. Mann
29. Survival Kit published by KSPA
30. The HIgh School Editor’s Handbook by Ray Laakaniemi and Dale Price
31. Media Ethics by Rosalind G. Stark
32. Revise and Edit by Dana Pierson
33. You are the editor by Eric Johnson
34. Portraits of 9/11 by the New York Times
35. White Space is Not Your Enemy by Rebecca Hagen and Kim Golombisky
36. The Elements of Graphic Design by Alex White
37. Grid Systems by Kimberly Elam
38. 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People by Susan Weinschenk
39. Thou Shall Not Use Comic Sans by Adams, Dawson, Foster and Seddon
40. Pure Design by Mario Garcia
41. The Photographer’s Handbook by John Hedgecoe
42. The Camera Never Blinks Twice by Dan Rather
43. Before and After Page Design by John McWade
44. The Complete Book of Caricature by Bob Staake
45. The Big Book of Creativity Games by Robert Epstein
46. Personal History by Katharine Graham
47. David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
48. Life is Not a Game of Perfect by Dr. Bob Rotella
49. Attitude is Everything by Keith Harrell
50. Tell Them I Didn’t Cry by Jackie Spinner
51. Sound Reporting by Jonathan Kern
52. The 21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leader by John Maxwell
53. Reporting Live by Leslie Stahl
54. Investigative Reporting for Print and Broadcast by William Gaines
55. Leadership 101 by John Maxwell
56. The Starting Point: Young Journalists and the Law by SPLC
57. Best Practices for Newspaper Journalists by Robert Haiman
58. Let the Students Speak by David Hudson Jr.
59. The Little Book of Layouts by David E. Carter
60. Digital Photography Complete Course published by DK London
61. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
62. News Values by Jack Fuller
63. Fundamentals of Copy and Layout by Albert Book and C. Dennis Schick
64. Making and Breaking the grid by Timothy Samara
65. Newspaper Layout and Deisgn by Daryl Moen
66. Quick Solutions to Great Layouts by Graham Davis
67. Scholastic Journalism by C. Dow Tate and Sherri Taylor
68. Working with Words and Pictures by Lori Siebert and Mary Cropper
69. Drawing and Cartooning 1001 Caricatures by Dick Gautier
70. How to Produce Creative Publications by Thomas Bivins and William Ryan
71. Photo Journalism by Kenneth Kobre
72. The Great Picture Hunt by Dave LaBelle
73. Designing a Photograph by Bill Smith
74. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Cartooning But Were Afraid To Draw by Christopher Hart
75. InDesign Production Cookbook by Alistair Dabbs and Ken McMahon
76. Covering Sports by Dean Hume
77. Advertising A-Z by Rob Melton and Sunny Stautz
78. Journalism Writing for Publication published by the Center for Learning
79. Advertising and the business of Brands published by The Copy Workshop[
80. Podcast Solutions by Michael Geoghegan and Dan Klass
81. Developing The Leader Within You by John Maxwell
82. Leadership Retreats by Kelly Stevens and Valerie Wright
83. Go Team! by Ken Blanchard, Alan Randolph and Peter Grazier
84. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
85. The Mammoth Book of Journalism Edited by Jon E. Lewis
86. The Non-Designer’s type Book by Robin Williams
87. A Kick in the Seat of the Pants by Roger von Oech
88. A Whack on the Side of the Head by Roger von Oech
89. The Pulitzer Prize Photographs published by the Newseum
90. Understanding and Creating Editorial Cartoons published by Knowledge Unlimited
91. Humans by Brandon Stanton
92. Writing Opinion for Impact by Conrad Fink
93. Getting Permission by Richard Stim
94. Sports Writing by Steve Craig
95. American Journalists by Ritchie
96. Writing and Reporting News by Carole Rich
97. All the Dave Berry You Could Ever Want
98. Making Movies with Your iPhone by Ben Harvell
99. Journalism: Publishing Across Media by Jan Ewell, Randy Hamm, Michelle Balmeo and Ellen Austin
100. Student Journalism and Media Literacy by H.L.Hall, Megan Fromm and Aaron Manfull