<p>Our school’s newspaper is more visually based I guess. We have photographers and great graphic editors. </p>
<p>That being said, it’s starting to turn out to those photos where it’s not journalistic and straightforward, but more artsy-fartsy found on Tumblr pictures. <em>shudders</em></p>
<p>Dang, you guys have a ton of actual substance in your papers. I have some questions lol:</p>
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[<em>]How many members are typical?
[</em>]Do you join as an EC, or is it for those in a journalism class only?
[li]What are some of the awards your papers have/can win? :D[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Indeed, my school looks even more pathetic now. We have, like, twenty people on the entire staff, is offered as an unweighted class, and the title of editor-in-chief is nonexistent lol. I would just join lit magazine, but it sucks as well.</p>
<p>More than 99.5% of our school is not aware that we have a paper.</p>
<p>Our “official” school newspaper sucks, but we have a student run opinion editorial magazine that is AWESOME although it only comes out three times a year.</p>
<p>randomazn- you sound like you come from my school.
At my school, journalism class is a pre req to the newspaper. Top 5 scorers get to write for the newspaper.</p>
<p>Our school paper is very well-read at my school. Many school board and faculty members comment on how they enjoy reading my articles. Two years ago, it was absolutely nothing, but with a new adviser stepping in and a close-knit staff, it grew to be a bi-monthly 20-page paper with an online edition. Since I might be the only returning staff member next year, I might be the editor-in-chief. My adviser is hesitant about that, though. Since my school has fewer than 800 students, there is no journalism pre-req. For the first month, our adviser gives us the basics on AP style, ethics, and the roles of the paper. I managed to adapt nearly instantly. We have a lot of great writers and a few good photographers.</p>
<p>My school’s current newspaper was just started about halfway through this school year. I’m the news editor, so I may be biased, but I think we’ve gotten off to a great start. We have some excellent writers and photographers and have gotten great support from the school staff. The paper is entirely online (no print version at all), enabling us to incorporate a lot of multimedia elements. There’s no class, just an after school club.</p>
<p>Ours is like a “magazine” because we found out that if it was too “newspapery” then the crowd of “short attention spanned teenagers” won’t read it. Our newspaper is like 30 to 40 pages. Bad, hell no. Good, maybe. Best, no.</p>
<p>Our newspaper isn’t a newspaper. There’s no word I can use to describe how horrible it is. It’s literally a piece of paper that is released once every year, with crappy articles by a crappy journalism staff that makes an even crappier yearbook.</p>
<p>So…if I wanted to start a school newspaper, how viable do you veterans think that would be? There is absolutely nothing resembling a newspaper in my school district at all (eh…there’s some type of book of student literature/artwork that comes out once a year), and it’s really pretty ludicrous that it doesn’t, considering how the school is ~3400 students.</p>
<p>I’ve been an editor for my janky school paper for 3 years (going on 4). It’s just awful.</p>
<p>Z.Exodus–Newspapers are hard to run. First you need a staff that knows the basics of journalism. Apparently there are different rules in journalism compared to prose.
Secondly, you need ads to run the paper, which you can do through running classifieds or asking local companies to sponsor, which I have found to be both challenging. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>it’s alright. it’s not bad, I suppose, but most people aren’t interested in it. I read it, though</p>