Sunday, September 28, 2008
Other journalism experts
So this week was pretty exciting around room 137. We had a guest speaker on Wednesday. Maggie Messitt, a journalist from South Africa, came to speak to Spokesman about community journalism and the paper she edits in her community in South Africa. Since then, my students have been walking around saying "follow the soldier, not the army". It's the new philosophy on where to focus when reporting that they got from Maggie. It was very inspirational.
Next up on our experts from outside of WHS was the University of Illinois Press Day. I took nine of my staffers down to U of I for the day. It was fabulous. I even got excited about a new idea for how we run our production schedule. I think I got all of the fieldtrippers on board, so we'll see what the rest of the staff thinks tomorrow. Each one of the nine fieldtrippers came back with at least one great new idea. That makes me feel good. And they all lived through the 5:30 a.m. meeting time. I'm so proud.
I think that about covers the highlights from last week. The week before, for which I had not gotten around to blogging about, was our distribution week. All went well with issue 1. Yea!
Next up on our experts from outside of WHS was the University of Illinois Press Day. I took nine of my staffers down to U of I for the day. It was fabulous. I even got excited about a new idea for how we run our production schedule. I think I got all of the fieldtrippers on board, so we'll see what the rest of the staff thinks tomorrow. Each one of the nine fieldtrippers came back with at least one great new idea. That makes me feel good. And they all lived through the 5:30 a.m. meeting time. I'm so proud.
I think that about covers the highlights from last week. The week before, for which I had not gotten around to blogging about, was our distribution week. All went well with issue 1. Yea!
