<p>i'm would like to apply for either newspaper or yearbook...but i'm not that sure as what differences are between them, and what are the specific benefits of each. i see that yearbook is more similar to magazines and newspaper to...newspapers...but can anyone explain this to me further?</p>
<p>newspaper will help you more in schoo/writing, etc.</p>
<p>but of course i'm biased.</p>
<p>Newspaper is cooler. Do you know how much action high school journalists get? ("So, wouldn't you be more comfortable if I interviewed you in the bedroom?" :) )</p>
<p>With newspaper, you're actually going somewhere. You'd be a journalist. You could move up to a college paper, then a small town paper, then a medium paper, then the New York Times or Washington Post! Or you could do magazines, freelance, anything! The opportunities are limitless.</p>
<p>I'm biased too. :)</p>
<p>But honestly, where does yearbook lead you? To designing cataloges? Please.</p>
<p>I did both.</p>
<p>do both! newspaper is a little more "School"-y haha. Yearbook has the benefit of fewer hardcore deadlines. Also, Yearbook you pick the pictures instead of ONLY the text. Depends on your interests.</p>
<p>haha well i'm only allowed to pick one or the other (they're friendly rivals).</p>
<p>i have nooo idea =x.</p>
<p>Depends on your interests.</p>
<p>If you like writing more, go for newspaper.</p>
<p>If you like design better, go for yearbook.</p>
<p>If you like both, I'd say newspaper - you can write AND design if you want to.</p>
<p>I'd vote for newspaper.</p>
<p>I guess I'm sort of biased too though...</p>
<p>it depends which is better in your school. i want to be a journalist, but my school paper is lame and yearbook is a big thing at my school so im doing that.</p>
<p>I'm in Yearbook, and I would recommend you to join Newspaper. Most of the copies/articles written for Yearbook are pretty much objective, while for Newspaper articles one could express one's opinions. I would absolutely love to get to write an Opinions article. Newspaper just seems... more interesting.</p>
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<p>I am the photography editor for my school's newspaper, and I get to pick pictures/photos. Our newspapers covers everything.</p>
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Most of the copies/articles written for Yearbook are pretty much objective, while for Newspaper articles one could express one's opinions. I would absolutely love to get to write an Opinions article. Newspaper just seems... more interesting.
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<p>Newspaper is like a real job. You have deadlines, and people actually do read your work. It impacts real people. I find a lot of satisfaction working on it. </p>
<p>ps. I LOVE OPINION PIECES</p>
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Also, Yearbook you pick the pictures instead of ONLY the text.
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Actually, Anon<em>Person</em>1, I'm not sure what you mean by that. For both Newspaper and Yearbook, the student staff members take and choose the pictures and write and edit the text.</p>
<p>I like Newspaper because it sort of progresses along with a school year, while Yearbook sort of just sums it up. There are frequent deadlines to meet for Yearbook as well, because the work gets sent in by signatures/sections. A positive aspect of Yearbook is that the book basically stays around forever, and is referred to over and over again by people. :)</p>
<p>I guess I assumed that my paper/yearbook was like everyone else's. Ie, We have 12 pages of text/issue (no pictures), while Yearbook is mostly pictures with a blurb of text about the season/etc</p>
<p>I am thinking of doing the yearbook this year, what kind of skills do you need? I guess I could do editing or something. I never even buy a year book(they are like 70 bucks), but I want to actually make it, weird huh.</p>
<p>i personally think newspaper is better. you get out one issue per month instead of working on a book for an entire year, and if you are an opinionated individual you will likely have the chance to write some editorials. it's also more like a real job, since you will have specific assignments and deadlines. also, there are more newspaper awards than yearbooks ones out there. last year our paper won 3 national awards and i personally won a few awards b/c of my journalism achievements. i'm not trying to brag or anything, just saying there are sometimes nice benefits. :D</p>
<p>there's an unfriendly rivalry between yearbook and newspaper in my school too. lmao.</p>
<p>well see i work on a real newspaper(yes, the teen page, but still) so i really dont feel like meeting deadlines for that and the school paper. hence, i do yearbook, which is flexible. im also gonna be an editor for the lit mag next year..plus all my other activities, track and my part-time job and my homework. lol.</p>
<p>Yearbook!! Haha, COMPLETE bias on my part since Yearbook pretty much owns my entire life (no joke -- I own 320984 yearbook t-shirts, Yearbook paraphernalia is all over my walls, I have it on my school stuff, I'm always in the yearbook lab, etc.)</p>
<p>Interestingly, I'm going to be a journalist and planning on being on both the school yearbook AND newspaper in college. Because rivalry schmivalry ;)</p>
<p>I don't know why I chose Yearbook over Newspaper when I've always wanted to be a journalist... you would think it would be a "no duh" situation. I guess I just HAD to take the path less taken, hahaha.</p>
<p>But Yearbook is good if you're considering going into design and all that business as well as thinking of doing something w/ writing. Or working in mags and putting your stuff on the web is becoming ever more popular... you never know if you'll ever have to design your website, along w/ writing stuff alongside it! ;)</p>
<p>And Yearbook takes a LOT more work than most people realize. Yeah, you have a year, but some sections need to be done earlier than others. Like at my school, student life has to be done by the end of October. Lots of time, right? Yeah... no. Making layouts from scratch (when you're layout impaired -________-), getting PICTURES ASLKDJFJKL;FDS, getting QUOTES -- DON'T GET ME STARTED, getting in touch w/ teachers and coaches who NEVER GET BACK TO YOU, and when YOUR STAFF NEVER SHOWS UP AND YOU END UP DOING ALL THE FREAKING WORK ASDFJKLASDFLKJ;ASDJKLF... okay yeah, minor vent there. I'm not student life, I'm editor of academics but wow, it's frustrating. And hard. Because it IS a year round commitment and some people on staff just can't/won't make that commitment. And when they don't show up, guess who picks up the slack? Everyone else who's already doing their fair share.</p>
<p>And it's so time consuming. I've sacrificed Saturdays, I come in after school, I have Yearbook lunch, I go to every meeting on Tuesday, I'm coming in during winter break... and still, we miss deadlines. It makes me go batty because we print surveys upon surveys, interview person upon person, take pictures upon pictures, but when it comes time to put it all together, something is ALWAYS MISSING. It's just inevitable.</p>
<p>It can get really difficult doing this, knowing that even when you give 110%, you still might miss deadlines and turn NOTHING in for your section (like my section did =/ The turn nothing in scenario is a bit of exaggeration on most people's cases but yeah. It was basically myself and another person since my co-editor and my friends who are on my staff have college stuff which is toooootally understandable but still makes me angry) and you feel like you let the entire group down.</p>
<p>But if I could, would I have chosen to do Newspaper over Yearbook? No, I don't think I would. As tempting as it may be XDDDDD Newspaper has just as many challenges as Yearbook and I would never devalue what they do (that would be kind of ironic) but I think I really broadened my perceptions of what I'm capable of with Yearbook. Yeah, I know I can write... but now I know what makes a good layout even if I can't make it myself <em>g</em> and I can put stuff together onto the layout in a snap and can design crap way better than I could before, as well as all those fancy things they teach you at yearbook camp (haha I love yearbook far, far too much.)</p>
<p>I don't know anymore. I think both are very good, and now I must admit bias on both parts.</p>
<p>Sorry for the really long rant. I just... had to let that out since that's been building forever. Yeah. (And honestly, yearbook doesn't have to be so time consuming; it is what you make of it. It's my only big extracurricular so, consequently, I tend to put in more work than the average person on staff. Okay, correction. I put in more work than probably anyone on staff other than my advisor. But I'm psychotic so. XD)</p>
<p>^I'm definitely not as dedicated as you are, but I know how you feel. :) I'm the editor of the People section, and even though this section does not cover as much as some of the other sections do, it is still tough and frustrating when people don't turn things in on time or don't seem to take me seriously. This year has especially been challenging, since most of the staff is new, and in my opinion, most of the writers could use some writing workshop sessions or something.</p>
<p>It really depends on what is big at your school.</p>
<p>For example, at mine, the Yearbook had medaled in Yearbook Critiques, and our's had been named one of the best yearbooks to be produced outside of the United States by Columbia University. In contrast, the newspaper at my school is just 10 pages of black and white print that is riddled with grammar and mistakes. Moreover, if you have been in yearbook, you would notice the blatantly eyesore design in the school newspaper.</p>
<p>Thus, yearbook is better.</p>
<p>But of course, I'm biased -- I'm Editor-in-Chief for the 2007 edition.</p>
<p>Yearbook = fluff.</p>
<p>Newspaper = hard-hitting REAL journalism</p>
<p>I rest my case. :)
(and, yes, I'm biased, too. But the yearbook girls have "Tasty Tuesday" every week and can't spell "sophomore." How do they expect us to take them seriously?)
In newspaper we have "Nasty Wednesday" instead..lol</p>