NEWSPAPER EDITOR

Requirements: 

• Be in attendance at your regional Training Session
• Have 1 year experience having attended the Youth in Government Augusta session,                       or be Junior or Senior.

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:

Review sections about Editor’s Responsibilities

Review sections about Writing Articles, and learning how to

Write articles for Paper.

Model Press Corp Resources: