<p>The Guardian, UCSD's award-winning official newspaper, is currently recruiting writers, photographers, designers, copy-readers and artists. </p>
<p>Our website is unfortunately undergoing some maintenance, so here's the quick lowdown: We have several sections you can write for news, opinion, sports, hiatus (arts & entertainment), focus (in-depth features, profiles, etc), and leisure (lifestyle - so food, drinking, health, travel, etc). Copy-readers proofread all the content for AP style. Photography and art is self-explanatory it's all the visuals. And designers use Adobe InDesign to create the layout of the paper.</p>
<p>We come out on Mondays and Thursdays, and encourage people of all writing levels/experience to join. We have a training program, so we really try to work with our writers and help them improve.</p>
<p>Most writers only write like one article a week. You really don't have to put in more time than you want to. But some people (like myself) thrive off this kind of work, so we invest more into it. There's no journalism department at UCSD, so the Guardian is literally the only way I've been able to get experience in what I actually want to do.</p>
<p>Email me at <a href="mailto:managing@ucsdguardian.org">managing@ucsdguardian.org</a> to request an application if you're interested, and feel free to hit me up if you have any questions!</p>
<p>i just sent an email! so excited.
in the meantime, can we write about philosophy or is that a bit too extreme?
like not exactly religion, but maybe slight mentions of various texts?
like reincarnation, vegetarianism etc.</p>
<p>if not, i would still love to write about health [but could you provide some examples- the ones im thinking about have to do with flus, aids, latest news around the world]
also, i know its a school newspaper [and as an incoming freshman] could we write about worldy events or is it centralized on the school. just curious so i know what to right if my application is accepted</p>
<p>I’m not going to apply since I’m a horrible writer; I just wanted to say I enjoy reading your papers, you guys rock 
:D</p>
<p>Is there a lot of flexibility in choosing a topic for your article of the week? Or are writers assigned topics to write about? I’m really interested in applying but I don’t know if I’d have the time and/or resources to find my own news or hiatus topics every week :(</p>
<p>All of the section editors come up with the article topics every week, though we always accept suggestions from writers. The section editors then hold weekly meetings, in which they share the story topics, and the writers pick which ones they’d like to do.</p>
<p>We’ll be holding a recruitment meeting on campus next week for those interested as well. Here’s the event info: <a href=“Redirecting...”>Redirecting...;
<p>What’s the type of commitment expected out of copy-readers? And do copy-readers ever look at finished pages to double check everything?</p>
<p>Question: If we do end up on the newspaper staff, are all of our penned articles going to be accessible by anyone of the public online? Why I ask: When I apply in the future to grad schools, I don’t want them to be able to simply google my name and find articles with my name as the author and then judge me on my writing from a past year in college. :P</p>
<p>Yeah, we post everything online. I mean, the whole point is to get your name out there and get experience. I’m sure grad schools would be impressed by the fact that you’ve been published!</p>