This guide, which is based on the Foxfire project (see SO 009 021 for project description), is full of practical suggestions to help secondary school students put together a magazine using stories from their own communities. Contents include the following: choosing a name for the magazine; how to organize staff; story ideas to choose from; sample questions to use in interviews with senior citizens; the camera as a journalist's tool, describing how to load the camera, shutter speeds, aperture, and the use of light meters; photocopying techniques; how to use a tape recorder in interviews; filing systems for interview records and how to cross-index; sample of written agreement covering gift of tapes and records for historic preservation; step-by-step instructions and illustrations showing how to develop black-and-white film and make prints; technical advice about transcribing; how to write the story, with samples of stories written by high school students for other Foxfire magazines; how to edit; layout techniques and graphic art; proofreading signs; how to sell the magazine; and printing costs. (Author/RM)