Newspaper Editors class teamed up with the Feature Coverage class to guide them and share advice about creating an interesting feature story package. Newspaper editors, Eisenhower High School senior Angie Wysocki and Mercy High School senior Anjali Alangaden, helped Feature Coverage writer, Detroit Cristo Rey High School senior Ryan Martin, work through her flaws and … [Read more...] about Newspaper editors team up with feature coverage writers
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Newspaper Editors class is choosing their lessons
During the last full day of the MIPA workshop in Dean Hume’s Newspaper Editors class, recently moved to a room on the second floor of the Natural Resources building in order to make use of room 218’s computers, Hume covered a number of topics that the students picked. The students in the class were planning after lunch to give constructive criticism to stories written by … [Read more...] about Newspaper Editors class is choosing their lessons
Newspaper Editors class provides a hands-on approach
Just coming back from lunch, Dean Hume’s Newspaper Editors class engaged in a number of hands-on activities designed to get the students to apply various editing skills. The activities included pitching ideas to report on from around campus and making comments as a class on several stories published in student publications. The student journalists are encouraged to … [Read more...] about Newspaper Editors class provides a hands-on approach
Newspaper editors class studies legal issues
As a newspaper editor, knowing different legal issues and how to avoid running into them are an integral part to maintaining a respectable publication. On. Aug. 3, the "Newspaper Editors" class studied rights not protected by law and how to recognize those potential problems. "(My goals were to) get them to think like editors," adviser Dean Hume said. "It's not just … [Read more...] about Newspaper editors class studies legal issues
Newspaper editors cover how to make stories more interesting
The Newspaper Editors' classroom was much livelier on Aug. 2 as instructor Dean Hume covered how to write columns, edit, copy, find story angles and motivate writers. "When you have a kid who's proud of his work, you can't just slash it with a red pen," Hume said. "You have to work with them; you have to understand that it's a group effort." Hume assigned students … [Read more...] about Newspaper editors cover how to make stories more interesting