<p>This is my survey thread. What is YOUR high school newspaper like? Is it popular/a good program? What are some of things you like?</p>
<p>Bonus: Is speech and debate really helpful for colleges? -__-</p>
<p>My biggest goal is to end up writing for the newspaper next year, so yeah. :]</p>
<p>lawl bump</p>
<p>I made a pathetic thread. I still want some answers!</p>
<p>our newspaper was pathetic. more people would get excited about the layout than the articles. in fact, some of my articles were cchopped up into disjoint pieces, because the layout was far more important than any of our articles. so… .bleahhh w/e i can’t wait to [hopefully… God willing] write for a decent newspaper in college. </p>
<p>hmm… i took part in both debate and speech. i liked speech… it really helped my confidence. so i suggest you take speech first, and then use your newlyfound skills in debate =D</p>
<p>Our newspaper is freaking awesome. It has won so many awards and I think it’s really professional; it doesn’t just seem like another high school newspaper. We all work really hard and we just released an almost 80-page graduation issue and it looks amazing! whoaaa trippy</p>
<p>Our school newspaper is REALLY popular. They actually ran out of copies for the last issue. It’s very well run and the writers, if not outstanding, are excellent for high schoolers. I was accepted onto the newspaper as a writer for next year, and I’m very excited to be working on staff. :D</p>
<p>For writers, newspaper is not actually a class. But if you take the journalism editing class and are accepted as an editor, then you get an actual school period to work on it. So our newspaper is a pretty big deal…</p>
<p>lol ours is so lame that I didn’t even know it existed until I asked. <em>sigh</em> I’ve signed up to write for it next year, and apparently they were so desperate for writers, let alone underclassmen, that I got in without question. Now the only problem is getting the counselors to change my schedule into newspaper-permitting, but since they hate any sort of change…:(</p>
<p>Anyway, to answer, we don’t even print copies because nooooo one will ever read it. It’s online now, and their excuse is that they’re going green. <em>smirk</em></p>
<p>^randommazn. . .can u show me the link to ur school’s online newspaper?</p>
<p>Yup. 
Check your PMs lol.</p>
<p>Well, I was the editor of one of the news pages this year and will be Asst. EIC next year of ours, so my opinion may be biased, but I think ours is absolutely outstanding. We’ve won tons of awards for layout and a few individuals (myself included) have won numerous writing awards.</p>
<p>Our newspaper isn’t outsanding, but it gets the job done. It was very mediocre just last year, but the new editors (of which I am one) have helped to improve it and it’s slowly gaining more respect. It is still small… 4 pages total (on large newsprint), but we’re really starting to make sure that every inch of it is filled with content.</p>
<p>my school’s newspaper is really good. we always win a bunch of awards like the pacemaker. its pretty popular next year 90 kids are gonna be on staff.</p>
<p>I’m opinions editor for our paper. I get my own teacher’s desk and rolling chair =]</p>
<p>people LOVE our paper. It’s really well written, wins awards, massive appeal (teachers yell at kids for reading it in their class), and is run by an amazing sponsor. I’m in charge of all the columnists, writing the editorial from the view of the board of editors, layout-ing 3 pages of columns, and writing my own columns.</p>
<p>our newspaper is one of the top three in the state</p>
<p>Our paper is OK. My first two years on board it was really good, but we lost a lot of funding from the district and sponsors in the past year. We’re going to turn it around next year. </p>
<p>We have a pretty good editorial staff but the writers (with some exceptions) aren’t very good. Even though our paper hasn’t been too good, I’ve really enjoyed being a part of the editors. I’ve had a lot of good (and not so good) times at layout, and the editors’ dinners are always a good time. I would do it again.</p>
<p>Our school newspaper SUCKS. They just find random ppl to write stuff for it…and sometimes it comes out late (always). But it’s OK.</p>
<p>I wanted to do newspaper…but I decided i wasnt interested enough…even though I could have easily gained a leadership position on it.</p>
<p>However, our literary arts magazine that’s published once a year is very good. We win tons of prestigious awards for it.</p>
<p>My HS’ paper was pretty pathetic.
It was literally a single sheet of printer paper.</p>
<p>I was the editor-in-chief. I was a pathetic editor-in-chief. Haha, good times.</p>
<p>Our paper is pretty good.</p>
<p>Its like 40 pages. Writing is decent and most stories are interesting.</p>
<p>FORTY PAGES?!?! WOW.</p>
<p>Our school does monthly issues and they’re like 4 sheets folded up into 8 pages.</p>
<p>What makes a newspaper so popular/prestigious?? anyone?</p>
<p>At my school, you take Journalism 1 and “learn” about writing a newspaper (but most of the time you end up sitting around playing computer games). Then you take Advanced Journalism, which is the class that actually writes for the paper.</p>
<p>Our newspaper completely sucks. It comes out maybe three times a year and no one reads it.</p>
<p>Wow, I thought like 30-40 pages was the norm…
Our 40 pager comes out every month.</p>
<p>We had interesting stories. Like some random girl was going to be a disney channel actor, a blind person in marching band, a story on a group that everybody thought was a cult, but really wasn’t, one about a volunteer firefighter, etc. We have editorial articles on politics and the school too.</p>
<p>Do you guys have photographers? I’m actually a photographer for the newspaper.</p>
<p>Also, I just searched the newspaper and found that some articles have won awards.</p>