Editing, Leadership, and Team Building
Editing, Leadership, and Team Building
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A Reflection: While my main leadership role for my paper has been as Editor-in-Chief, in my sophomore year, I was the Feature Page Editor, and in my junior year, I became Assistant Editor-in-Chief. Editing has always been a significant part of my process when creating a paper, and I always had a hand in helping edit other people's pages as well. When I became in charge of the Clark Chronicle, it was suddenly up to me to organize deadlines and final page editing, as well as staff bonding. Below are some of the methods I've employed to help me not only organize and schedule but also build trust with the staff and ensure that we have as much fun producing these papers as I had my freshman and sophomore years.
A Reflection: While my main leadership role for my paper has been as Editor-in-Chief, in my sophomore year, I was the Feature Page Editor, and in my junior year, I became Assistant Editor-in-Chief. Editing has always been a significant part of my process when creating a paper, and I always had a hand in helping edit other people's pages as well. When I became in charge of the Clark Chronicle, it was suddenly up to me to organize deadlines and final page editing, as well as staff bonding. Below are some of the methods I've employed to help me not only organize and schedule but also build trust with the staff and ensure that we have as much fun producing these papers as I had my freshman and sophomore years.
Staff Manual
Staff Manual
In the summer before my senior year, I found my journalism teacher's old staff manual. She had stopped making them ages ago, but we both decided that starting this year, we would pick it up again. Meeting at Panera, my Co-Editors and I spent a couple of days working out some of the legistics of how we wanted to run the year. We created some rules and general guidelines to follow and then focused on things we wished we had known when we started out. The manual took a lot of work, and planning deadlines was also a huge challenge, but I'm so glad we made it. In the end, we ended up always trusting on the assigned day, and we're right on track for the last two issues of the year!
The Wedding
The Wedding
This is one of my favorite staff bonding exercises that we have every year! The editor plans and officiates a wedding in our newspaper publication, signifying our staff's loyalty to the paper. The first year I did it, I was so confused as to the whole point of the wedding, but come my senior year, I couldn't wait to plan out the whole event. My teacher ordered decorations, and the seniors each got to make crowns to wear! The boys all wore bow ties, and we got a little veil to pass around, too. We ended up reusing those crowns every time someone on staff had a birthday in order to celebrate them. We also had a competition during the wedding where the winner got to name our official class pet: a rock! It was such a fun moment and really brought the whole staff together!
4c0927a5ae754f14a75d7a861e92c3c6.MP4Video courtesy of @Clarkpub, my publications instagram!
Photos courtesy of The Express News. They took pictures of me working during class one day for a story I was in (I mention the story they wrote in my News Literacy portion of the portfolio).
Editing
Editing
As Editor-in-Chief, I'm in charge of reviewing my staff's stories and making suggestions. At first, I was really nervous about how critical I should be on each piece, so I came up with an idea to leave a compliment at the end of all my edits on something positive the staff member did! I always try to explain more complicated suggestions in the comment section of the story, but most of the time, I'll also pull that staff member aside and explain it to them in person. I always think the in-person discussion makes the process more personal and lets me explain to them why I'm doing what I'm doing so they'll trust my judgment.
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