Leadership
My sophomore of high school me and another staff member were in charge of organizing all photos from that year, picking out the great ones, and placing them our photography website to sell. Although I am not in charge of running the photos for the website anymore. I did a lot of work redesigning and picking out images for people in our school to by. The website above is the link to our photography website.
My junior year of high school I was appointed co-editor of our schools's magazine. With my job as editor I worked with my co-editor to think of ideas for all of our issues of the magazine. Along with other magazine work I was in charge of the front page of our magazine as well as checking over each page before it was packaged and sent to print. I worked with the staff to find appropriate deadlines for stories, design work, and then a final deadline. We worked hard to keep to the deadlines that we set. Throughout the year if any problems we had with how things were being handled with the staff, I would discuss them with my co-editor and adviser and then would plan meetings to discuss these issues. My main goal was to help each staff member get better at journalism and I wouldn't be handling or teaching them anything if I didn't address the issue. By willing to sit down and discuss problems with staff members we could figure out the problem and solution faster and make sure it was done in the best interest of the staff.
This year I am co-editor of both the yearbook and the magazine. I am in charge of many things this year. In the summer I had a meeting with my editors and planned out things we wanted to change about our previous publications. After we figured out what we wanted to do I began making templates for the yearbook pages and the magazine pages. I completely redesigned our magazine cover and folios inside. For the yearbook we decided to have daily reporting on our pages. With this games with a lot of planning each week. I am in charge of leading meetings to plan what people are going to report each week and checking up with them to make sure they turn each one in. After the staff turns in each issue I place them on each of the appropriate pages. In the magazine after each class I walk around and make sure each staff member is doing their work as well as answering any questions that they might have. My co-editor and I make lists for each magazine staff member each day telling them what needs to get done by the end of class to help us keep on track to making our deadlines. In both staffs I try to make myself as available as possible to anyone that needs help with anything.
Above: Grace Rowland writes down weekly reporting assignments at the beginning of a yearbook class period.