Writing

Staff Writer (2023-2024):

As a staff writer in the 2023-2024 school year, I had the opportunity to write nine articles on sports at Carlmont High School. Also, I did one feature article, about how teen driving has decreased in the past couple years, and one opinion article, about how important sleep is for teenagers. The sport articles are meant to be highlights of the games and give insight into how the game went. When writing a sport article, I only have 24 hours to write it after the game, and my editor has another 24 hours to publish it. Therefore, the max time that the article will be published after the game is two days, but in general it happens the day after the game. Sports writing is highly demanding because on top of writing a good story and attending the games, writers must also take photos and constamtly be atentive to the game to make sure that we don't miss any important plays.

Editor (2024-2025):

As an editor, I manage seven writers constantly. It is a very time demanding job and requires lots of patience and attentiveness. As an editor, I am not required to write as many articles as staff writers because I have so much other work to do such as editing and publishing all of my writers articles. However, there is still an expectation for editors to publish their own work. This is why as an editor, I will write an editorial every semester as well as a feature article. These deviate from my usual sports writing, giving me a new sense of journalism as a whole.