Entrepreneurship
As student-journalists, we want people to read our work. Whether that be fellow students, teachers or those in the community, our hard work should be recognized. One thing we do to try to connect with those around us is providing an active social media presence. Our Online Editors are constantly taking pictures at schoolwide events to post on our Instagram. In addition, they tag students and teams when mentioned. When our social media is active, other students will want to read our work. We are the voice of the school and when we engage with our peers, I think other students start to recognize that. Before this year, we did not have an Instagram account and we solely relied on Twitter to connect us to those outside of the classroom. Overall, I think creating an Instagram was a great improvement to our media presence.
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Our newspaper also provides ad forms (pictured to the right) for any business interested. Not only are we helping that business out, but they are helping us out. This gives us money and a partnership. This is a form any local business can fill out. Unless provided, our staff will create an add to put in our paper.
When it comes time for designing and placing stories for the print paper, the journalism classroom can get a little hectic. This is crunch time and deadlines have never been so important. As Editor-in-Chief, I can start to feel extremely stressed, however, my staff does a fantastic job of helping me in every way possible. When lots of work needs to be done, we will have work nights where available staff members come in and help with the paper. We will have food and drinks and it makes the demanding deed more enjoyable. With that, the section editors are wonderful when it comes to helping. Before we finalize the paper, I have each section editor thoroughly edit their section. Needless to say, my staff works so well together and their want to help is so appreciated by me.