NEWSPAPER EDITOR

Description of Role

• Provide leadership to the newspaper staff.
• Making assignments and being sure deadlines are met.
• Responsible for one area of the program, and will work as a part of newspaper with all the duties listed for members of the staff.
• There will be 1 Editors for the newspaper

Responsibilities

Be able to assign correspondents and photographers to gather information

• Work with staff in development of at least 2 editions of the newspaper Saturday PM and Sunday AM
• Attend the Leadership Training Session on Thursday
• Work  to develop the layout, and look of this years newspaper.
• Contact members of the actual press in their local area. Asking them to cover the weekend program, give advice on organizing the newspaper, or providing additional leadership for newspaper.
• Assigning correspondents stories
• Telling the photographer what pictures to get
• Dividing up the tasks to get the newspaper done (writing, editing, typing, coping etc.)
• Edit stories to make sure they are appropriate and get the message you want across.

BEFORE YOU COME TO AUGUSTA

• Come up with list of story ideas (look at bills in bill book, schools that are attending, leadership)
• Special things you would like to have in the newspaper, personals, cartoons, horoscopes etc.
• Name for the newspaper
• Develop a press release about the Training Session they attended and send it on to newspapers in that region

Attend the Leadership Session:

MUST ATTEND LEADERSHIP SESSION, information about the session will be mailed to you 2-

3 weeks prior to the event.

Scripts or additional Information:

Go to www.yiginme.org

Click on Newspaper Staff look over the role of Newspaper. 

Review sections about Editor’s Responsibilities

Review sections about Writing Articles, and learning how to

Write articles for Paper.

Model Press Corp Resources: