MADELYN AUGUSTINE
NEWS DIRECTOR
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As the News Director I edit every news story that our newspaper produces. To the left is an example of story edits I have made. When editing, I typically look for the obvious AP style errors, misspellings, incorrect quote formats and overall quality of content. At the end of each story I try to make two or three bullet points of the reoccurring errors in a story. After editing a story I like to meet with the writer face-to-face so I can further explain any of my edits in detail. While meeting with them I also like to include things that they did well in the story, so that they remain positive and encouraged to write more stories. I strongly believe constructive criticism is the most effective type of criticism, so it is it important to not make edits a negative experience.
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
As an Editor-in-Chief I edit every single thing that goes into our yearbook. My co-Editor and I are the final edit before passing the spreads onto our adviser. On a daily basis I look for things like the correct fonts, font sizes, colors, quote and caption format, photo byes, overall content and much more. To the left you will see the style-sheet that I created for this year's book. All of the formatting for the things listed above can be found on this sheet, at the beginning of the year I went through and taped a copy of the style-sheet to each computer's keyboard tray so every staff member was able to access it easily and quickly. As one of the Editor-in-Chiefs I am also responsible for making the final edits to every spread after we send them to our printer to be proofed (pictured below) and before we send them to be printed. Editing a 400 plus page book is tedious, but is necessary to maintain our status as an award-winning yearbook.