Wear Your T-Shirts Tomorrow

Yearbook is coming to take our photo. The following owe me for a sweatshirt: Adrienne, Elizabeth, Kiara. The following owe me for a Tshirt: Jafet and Kevin.

Remember to Pay for Your "We've Got Issues" Shirts

The following people owe $28.95 for their sweatshirt: Adrienne, Elizabeth, Lisette, Kiara, Cecilia, Malina and Maria.
The following owe $11.95 for their T shirt: Ana, Sree, Karla, Antonio, Kevin, Jessica and Jafet (the last two - your shirts are in my file cabinet in room 421)

Tips for the New Year

Before throwing away my notebook from the High School Journalism Institute at the University of Texas, Austin this summer I thought I would pass along these tips from reporters at the Austin American Statesman daily newspaper:

Print out your story and do a line check.
Read your story aloud.
Include a detail, a piece of description about the person or the room
Pretend you are a foreign correspondent: why is this story important?
Don't be afraid to ask questions. If it's not in your notebook, you can't write about it.
If using a tape recorder, don't listen to the whole thing. Write down where on the tape something important is.
Ask for a phone number, so you can double check your information later.

And finally, from Jeff Cohen, the editor of the Houston Chronicle:
"At the end of the day, you can change the world with a newspaper; you can change the world with a high school newspaper."

Cheers to finding and reporting more great stories in 2010!