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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
The editor-in-chief is the chief organizer of the newspaper. He/She is like the CEO of a business organization. These are some of
his/her responsibilities:
- Run the class every day
- Conceptualize and organize the activities in conjunction with the teacher
- Be a visionary for the paper
- Be a "cheerleader" for the paper both in and out of class
- Be the publicly recognized person responsible for the paper
- Facilitate interactions with other staff members
- Cooperate and coordinate with Associate Editors
- Organize the staff
- Help resolve conflicts between staff members
- Help organize effective lessons for staff members
- Coordinate with the photographers
- Coordinate with the artists
- Coordinate with the printer
- Correct the pages during production week
- Establish the 'atmosphere' during production week
- Make sure all staff members fulfill responsibilities
- Be in-charge of self censoring the paper
Click on this video link for a clip of an interview with an editor-in chief
about her role on the paper
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TECHNICAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
- Works with all staff members to make sure they know how to save documents properly
- Works with Page Editors during production week to make sure they are formatting and saving correctly
- Makes sure all students know how to use Local Area Network (LAN)
- Collects all data from all pages and consolidates it on one Zip disk for printer
- Helps correct pages
- Be a visionary regarding technology
- Facilitate interaction between staff members regarding technology
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ASSOCIATE EDITORS
- Help correct pages during production week
- Work closely with Page Editors
- Help organize the staff
- Help conceptualize and organize activities
- Help run the class
- Help be a visionary for the paper
- Be a "cheerleader" for the paper both in and out of class
- Facilitate interactions with other staff members
- Help resolve conflicts with other staff members
Click on this video link for an
interview with an associate editor about his role.
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PAGE EDITOR
- Collects all the stories for the page
- Collects all the art work and graphics for the page
- Organizes the page in an attractive way
- Reads and edit stories
- Reads and corrects page before giving it to editors
- Requests artwork and photos page during Story Idea Session
- Knows how to use PageMaker and Photoshop
- Knows how to scan photos
- Knows how to download photos from the web
- Meets all deadlines
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ART DIRECTOR
- Coordinates all the photograhers and artists with the page editors
- Meets with photograhers to make sure they know assignments
- Monitors photographers and artists on a daily basis
- Takes film to be developed
- Keeps track of the number of rolls of film being used
- Monitors use of digital cameras
- Helps editors with downloading of photos from digital cameras
- Makes sure cameras have working batteries
This video link will take you to an interview with the art
director/multimedia director about his role.
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BUSINESS MANAGER
- Keeps track of the financial situation of the newspaper
- Monitors accounts receivable and accounts payable
- Coordinates with the auditor
- Gives editors and class a monthly financial report
- In charge of billing sessions when bills are mailed
- Reports to teacher if businesses fail to meet payments
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ADVERTISING MANAGER
- Makes sure that every student has an ad and an account to maintain
- Makes a list of potential advertisers to hand out at the beginning of the year
- Assigns all the ads during production week
- Makes sure that the ads are correctly placed
- Makes sure that the ads contain the correct information
- Interacts with the advertisers who call
- Checks for phone messages daily
- Responds to advertisers who call
- Reports to class on a monthly basis about the status of the ads
This video link will take you to an interview with an ad manager/business manager.
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PHOTOGRAPHERS
- Takes assigned photos and turns them in on time
- Reports the Art Director on a daily basis
- Stays during production week to help with photo problems
- Uses no more than two rolls of 36 pictures per newspaper unless sports are involved
- Constantly learning about better ways to take pictures
- Turns in all photos on time: Monday of production week
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ARTISTS
- Draws assigned art work
- Works closely with page editors
- Works under the Art Director
- Comes to production week
- Meets deadlines
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