Check out what these three high school newspapers do. Great stuff.
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Friday, April 24, 2015
Jack Kennedy sings the First Amendment - YouTube
This is from last week's Journalism Education Association convention in Denver.
Jack Kennedy sings the First Amendment - YouTube
Jack Kennedy sings the First Amendment - YouTube
Thursday, April 2, 2015
The 7 most useful apps for mobile journalism | RJI
Some of these may be useful for the website and for HS Insider.
The 7 most useful apps for mobile journalism | RJI
Speaking of HS Insider, here are some tips they sent in an email when the site first started. Please take them to heart.
1. You don't have to say Avengers High School. Just say Avengers. Everyone who comes to your page knows you are talking about your high school.
2. When reporting the score, always list the winning team's score first. So, don't say, "Avengers lost, 17-35", say "Avengers lost, 35-17"
3. Try to include more stats in your game stories. Don't say "John Adams had a dominating performance at running back.: Say "John Adams was dominant at running back, rushing for 247 yards."
4. When referring to a person a second time in the same story, just use their last name. For example: "John Adams was very disappointed in the loss. The only touchdown for the Avengers came on a 66-yard pass from Steve Rogers to Adams." The only exception to this would be if there are two people with the same last name in the story. Then you would use first and last name in all references to those two people.
5. Try to include the won-lost record of the team. Such as, "Avengers improve to 7-1 with the victory."
6. For game recap videos, nothing over 5 minutes. Once you cross the five-minute mark, you lose 90% of your audience.
7. For videos, try not to make it just a series of plays from the game, unless you can describe what is happening on each play, it doesn't mean much to people who weren't there.
8. You don't have to note what camera you used, in fact, we would prefer you didn't as we don't want to give free advertising or make it look like Go Pro is sponsoring Varsity Video.
9. If you have a particularly in-depth feature video, you can go past five minutes.
The 7 most useful apps for mobile journalism | RJI
Speaking of HS Insider, here are some tips they sent in an email when the site first started. Please take them to heart.
1. You don't have to say Avengers High School. Just say Avengers. Everyone who comes to your page knows you are talking about your high school.
2. When reporting the score, always list the winning team's score first. So, don't say, "Avengers lost, 17-35", say "Avengers lost, 35-17"
3. Try to include more stats in your game stories. Don't say "John Adams had a dominating performance at running back.: Say "John Adams was dominant at running back, rushing for 247 yards."
4. When referring to a person a second time in the same story, just use their last name. For example: "John Adams was very disappointed in the loss. The only touchdown for the Avengers came on a 66-yard pass from Steve Rogers to Adams." The only exception to this would be if there are two people with the same last name in the story. Then you would use first and last name in all references to those two people.
5. Try to include the won-lost record of the team. Such as, "Avengers improve to 7-1 with the victory."
6. For game recap videos, nothing over 5 minutes. Once you cross the five-minute mark, you lose 90% of your audience.
7. For videos, try not to make it just a series of plays from the game, unless you can describe what is happening on each play, it doesn't mean much to people who weren't there.
8. You don't have to note what camera you used, in fact, we would prefer you didn't as we don't want to give free advertising or make it look like Go Pro is sponsoring Varsity Video.
9. If you have a particularly in-depth feature video, you can go past five minutes.
Monday, March 23, 2015
Opportunities from HS Insider
HS Insider Team,
We hope you had a fun and eventful week. We’ve got a bunch of announcements to cover, so we’ll start with reminders.
Reminders
- Attached you will find the 2015 HS Insider Summer
Internship Application. Some key dates to note: your application must
be emailed to
varsityvideo@latimes.com by Friday, April 17th at 11:59pm PST. Please read the application carefully before emailing Kyle with questions. (It is in the shared documents folder in Drive.)
- This April 18th and 19th is the LA Times
Festival of Books.
HS Insider will have a booth, and we’re looking for volunteers to work
with Kyle that day to help run it and spread the word about HS Insider.
Thank you so much to all the volunteers
who signed up last night. As of now, we have two spots open for shift 1
& 2 along with one spot open for Shift 4. Email Kyle if you would
like to join!
Shift 1: Saturday 11am-3pm Shift 2: Saturday 3pm-6pm
Shift 3: Sunday 10am-2pm Shift 4: Sunday 2pm-5pm
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