Please come prepared on Monday with story ideas for news, opinion, entertainment and sports. That means checking on your beat assignments to see what is going on.
News: If your beat is an SLC, talk to the administrator or lead teacher for the SLC to see what is going on. If your beat is a grade level or a club, talk to the teacher-sponsor or student officers to find out what is schedule between now and December 14 (our next publication).
Also, check the school calendar on the website to see what activities are scheduled that we might want to cover.
Opinion/Editorial: will have two pages, so let's get some letters to the editor. We could do a staff editorial if we like. It could be something serious (global warming, war in Afghanistan) or not so serious (what we hope will happen in 2010, our New Year's resolutions.) The resolutions could be about the Crimson Chronicle (spell people's names correctly, double check our facts, cover SLCs equally, expand club coverage, etc.)
Entertainment: will also have two pages, so figure out what movies and music releases will be out around that time and see if we can review them.
Sports: If your beat is a sport, figure out if we need a season ender story (football, cross country) or a preview (basketball, volleyball, soccer, swimming).
Advertising: We need to sell at least one page of advertising, in addition to the shout-out ads. Let's get back to Amoeba Music and sell them a half page at least. If we sell lots of shout-outs, they can go on their own page. We need to come up with some guidelines for this. How many words for $2? Will we have a form for them to fill out? Will we give them a receipt?
Unpublished stories:Don't forget we have Antonio's mentor program story. (add quotes from mentors/mentees in SAS advisories who have already started it.) Also, Taguhi Tavitian submitted a story about how budget cuts are affecting field trips that we didn't have room for in the last issue.
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