The Upstart

Taking Your Newspaper to the Edge students work to improve publications

Students in the Taking Your Newspaper to the Edge class are all working on their own paper with students from their own staff. The class is taught by instructors C.E. […]

Jeremy Whiting goes behind the scenes

Jeremy Whiting, Executive Producer for the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association’s (MIPA) 2014 summer workshop, can be seen running around campus, interviewing students from various class to compile a promotional video […]

Advanced InDesign works on re-design

In addition to the basics from yesterday, the Advanced InDesign for Newspaper team is not looking back. This morning, they were given an example of a badly designed feature page, […]

Students Struggle with Small Newspaper Staffs

Working with a small staff is no small task. Brianna Gomez from Stockbridge High School is part of a three person staff–including herself. Having to juggle the role of the […]

Getting Advanced IN to DESIGNing Newspapers

Who knew it took to much to design a newspaper? With the desktop publishing program InDesign, you can compose your entire newspaper. There are several options in the program to […]

C.E. Sikkenga, Tracy Anderson take newspaper to the edge

MIPA instructors C. E. Sikkenga and Tracy Anderson are training their students to do whatever it takes to take their newspaper to the cutting edge. Some come in only needing […]

‘Dueling Divas’ provide websites worth bookmarking

For fresh newspaper design ideas or front page inspiration, look no further. “Dueling Divas” Betsy Rau and Cheryl Pell shared these sites during their presentation on July 28 to spark […]

Second day is a second chance to refresh newspapers

The online worlds of Twitter, Facebook and WordPress welcomed new members on Aug. 1 from C.E. Sikkenga and Rod Satterthwaite’s “Taking Your Newspaper to the Edge” class. By learning ways […]

‘Writing and Design for the Newspaper’ class prepares for sexting issue seminar, creates first news piece

On Aug. 1 in Room 242 of the Communication Arts Building, “Design and Writing for the Newspaper” students were hard at work learning how to create a news story. The […]