<p>Do Yearbook and Newspaper count as extracurricular activities if they are classes? At my school, they are classes but they do require some time outside of class too (like meetings on weekday evenings), so I was just wondering if I could put it down as an "extracurricular". Thanks.</p>
<p>Yes. Yearbook and Newspaper counts as extracurricular. Colleges know that these things requires a lot of time and work. Try to go for editor or something.</p>
<p>I am editor in chief of my newspaper (and i am a sophomore 0_o)
it takes A LOT of time, but it is worth it.</p>
<p>I'm in yearbook and the newspaper at my school seems to have an immense amount of word misusage and random article omissions. I see this is a widespread epidemic among young newspaper leadership.</p>
<p>Marie, I am Editor of my school's yearbook, and have written and halfly worked for our school's newpaper.
As a member of your school's yearbook staff, you surely understand the detailed checking and rechecking of proofs to make sure that nothing is wrong or out of place on each spread. But proofs allow yearbook staffers to catch those mistakes, and usualy we have a couple days to look for and correct the mistakes.
Newpapers are distributed monthly (at our school), while a yearbook is an annual publication. The stress and pressure put on newspaper staffers to catch a deadline always assures that a few mistakes are printed. Even though our newspaper advisor, staff, and school principle look at each page, because of rushing to meet deadlines, such mistakes are overlooked.</p>
<p>I hope that helps you understand the amount of mistakes in school newspapers compared to the yearbook you're used to.</p>
<p>Well, I have had both experiences too. At my school, yearbook is the more stressful one (for some reason) errors wise. This is not my opinion only but also the opinion of my closest friends on the newspaper staff. I was just referring to the fact he is a sophomore (so a young editor) and he forgot the article 'the' in his post. It's almost ironic that the editors on my school's newspaper staff ALWAYS do that. This is probably due to their younger staff thus their grammar skills and whatnot are not fully developed (or, at least, comparable to that of a senior.) Due to this, more mistakes will appear.
I made the comment in good humor just noting something that has been the biggest problem with our newspaper staff but has never been a problem before.</p>
<p>However, I would never compare the yearbook and newspaper editing process. I will qualify my statement, as to not be to presumptive, and say it is much harder to edit a yearbook copy than a newspaper copy, once again, at my school. Our yearbook is known for very long and intensive copy with many more sources and thus much more fact checking than our peer books. Our newspaper, for the past 6 years or so, has taken an extremely short story approach to their publication. They even admit that they would rather edit one of their stories once then have to edit our stories twice. To quote my friend, "I would never want to copy edit something over 1 page because after that my brain tunes out." My point in all this is that it is much harder to edit a longer piece than a shorter one so a yearbook, naturally, needs more revisions. As you know, there are also more ramifications if a name is spelt wrong or a fact is incorrect. We take on risque subjects and by the time proofs come in we rarely have to copy edit-- we are mostly fact checking.
Once again this is all my school and I made the comment in good humor.</p>
<p>My school has a weekly newspaper. Mistakes are inevitable.</p>