"Change is such hard work."-Billy Crystal
Change. It's apart of the newsroom, and this year it seemed like most of our production changed. As I mentioned times before, our newspaper was switched to a magazine, we have a new leadership along with a new adviser, and we've leaped our production forward with a whole new world of social media. The change that we've overall decided for seems like it has put us in a completely different setting then we've been previously accustomed to. Even though much has changed and our workloads have increase, the change does payoff.
One of the largest changes this year was announcing that our newspaper would be changed to a magazine. At first, I was skeptical of this change, since I had been so used to the newspaper and it had been in place for the past 25 years. This month we had released our first issue, I was rather excited to see how the new format would look. My skepticism was easily cut with the first slice of the box that held the papers on distribution day, I loved the new format. The magazine was loved by the school and especially our staff and now there is no more question behind the format. The change took plenty of hard work when it came to changing the format, we had to learn to make the paper more visual and more like a magazine and we had to set up more pages, which overall took longer.
Another change came this year with our new adviser and new student leadership. The paper is partially overlooked by students (usually senior students, so you do see your fair share of different leadership from freshman year to senior year). It seemed weird at first not to have our old adviser since he had been the face of the paper for so long, but after some work in the summer and with a lot of help in the first few weeks of school we all quickly adjusted. Along with the new adviser, we got our fair share of top dog editors which always takes some adjusting but by the third or forth issue you are well accustomed to them.
The biggest change in my opinion came this year when we decided to jump into the world of social media. Social media is media in the form of online that really allows for people to be apart of the news rather than it being a one time production. We used to have a rather popular publication website that won 3rd in the state two years back, but we took an off year and jumped back in. We set up a new website that is being worked on a lot, we started a twitter (which has been a huge hit with the students in the school) and we also started a podcast of four people apart of the staff (yours truly included). With this huge change comes a lot of work. The website is taking countless hours of two editors that have been working incredibly hard, the twitter has been rather effortless but just a fun way to get more people involved, and the podcast has taken a lot of work to get perfect (especially with the fact that we release it every week). All the hard work will pay off once we truly get all the social media in play, but it is a change that is taking a lot of adjusting and a lot of work, but hopefully will pay off big.
Overall, change is a large part of any publication. With technology always changing, the possibilities are becoming endless which leads to this being a rather large trend journalistically or rather in any profession. It takes hard work for something to change, and change takes hard work, but can really be worth it in the long run.
One of the largest changes this year was announcing that our newspaper would be changed to a magazine. At first, I was skeptical of this change, since I had been so used to the newspaper and it had been in place for the past 25 years. This month we had released our first issue, I was rather excited to see how the new format would look. My skepticism was easily cut with the first slice of the box that held the papers on distribution day, I loved the new format. The magazine was loved by the school and especially our staff and now there is no more question behind the format. The change took plenty of hard work when it came to changing the format, we had to learn to make the paper more visual and more like a magazine and we had to set up more pages, which overall took longer.
Another change came this year with our new adviser and new student leadership. The paper is partially overlooked by students (usually senior students, so you do see your fair share of different leadership from freshman year to senior year). It seemed weird at first not to have our old adviser since he had been the face of the paper for so long, but after some work in the summer and with a lot of help in the first few weeks of school we all quickly adjusted. Along with the new adviser, we got our fair share of top dog editors which always takes some adjusting but by the third or forth issue you are well accustomed to them.
The biggest change in my opinion came this year when we decided to jump into the world of social media. Social media is media in the form of online that really allows for people to be apart of the news rather than it being a one time production. We used to have a rather popular publication website that won 3rd in the state two years back, but we took an off year and jumped back in. We set up a new website that is being worked on a lot, we started a twitter (which has been a huge hit with the students in the school) and we also started a podcast of four people apart of the staff (yours truly included). With this huge change comes a lot of work. The website is taking countless hours of two editors that have been working incredibly hard, the twitter has been rather effortless but just a fun way to get more people involved, and the podcast has taken a lot of work to get perfect (especially with the fact that we release it every week). All the hard work will pay off once we truly get all the social media in play, but it is a change that is taking a lot of adjusting and a lot of work, but hopefully will pay off big.
Overall, change is a large part of any publication. With technology always changing, the possibilities are becoming endless which leads to this being a rather large trend journalistically or rather in any profession. It takes hard work for something to change, and change takes hard work, but can really be worth it in the long run.
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