Mr Lange is following us on Twitter

Hey, I just checked our email and saw that Mr. Lange is following us on Twitter. Then I looked at his tweets which are really fun. Has anyone interviewed him for the social networking story? If not, let's do so on Tuesday.

All Stories due Tuesday

Your story should be in Times New Roman font size 10. It can be emailed to crimsonchron@aol.com or handed to an editor on a flash drive when you walk in the door on Tuesday. Editors will then begin reading your stories and may ask you for clarification. You may have to doublecheck a fact or a quote. While they do that, I will lead the rest of the class in a lesson on how to sell advertising.

I'm really impressed with how hard you are all working (except Sree). I look forward to reading your stories. As we put the newspaper together in the next week, you may be asked to do a variety of tasks, such as writing a newsbrief, or taking a photo, or chasing down a fact. I feel confident this will be a great first issue.

Sree: You need to interview students in an advisory other than SAS. Mr. Carlos Garcia (Room 211) has a 9th grade Teaching Academy advisory. He says you can talk to them.

Let's Review

We are publishing an 8-page paper on Thursday, Oct. 8.
Page 1: Stories on the huge increase in Hollywood High's test scores, the Homecoming game/dance/pep rally, and how budget cuts are affecting school. Also an inside box with photos. (COLOR)
Page 2: Opinion/Editorial includes Man on the Street, letters to the editor and staffbox
Page 3: News includes new policy on wearing IDs around our neck, Health-Nutrition SLC plans for a student-run cafe, interviews with Boys State participants, screenplay student who won a $1,000 scholarship, college application season begins
Pages 4-5: Features include how students use social networking, 80s fashion is back. (COLOR)
Page 6: Entertainment includes the five worst video games of all time, student-created comic strips, this date in history (from the HHS newspaper archives)
Page 7: Sports include football, volleyball and the $3,800 raised for school sports by this summer's golf tournament.
Page 8: Full page color ad from Robek's Juice

Kanye West Journalism Debate

Paste this into your browser to read the Twitter-Obama controversy
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32859148/ns/politics-white_house/

Unfortunate but True

Check out this story on digg. http://www.10000words.net/2009/09/10-ugly-truths-about-modern-journalism.html
Thanks Mr. Manriquez for sending it to me.

Newspaper Exchange Critique due Monday

Be prepared to briefly explain something you liked in the paper you critiqued and how we might try something similar in our paper.

Please turn in the staff position sheets on Monday, so I can announce the positions on Tuesday. That sheet does not list an Opinion/Editorial page editor which is something I would like to have (although it could be handled by the Editor-in-Chief). Neither does it list an Entertainment page editor. This could be part of the features page if the features editor feels confident about assigning music/movie/video game stories and reviews, or it could be handled by a separate editor if there is someone who is interested. Oh yeah, we also need a copy editor, whose job it is to proofread everything after it has been edited by the editor who assigned the story.

Remember to check the AOL account at crimsonchron@aol.com. When I get newspaper-related email from people I forward it there. There's some sort of call-in interview for one of the stars of the movie FAME at 4:30 p.m. on Monday if someone wants to do it. Read the email for details.