Edition 4 Article Ideas

Same rules as the last time. Publication date will be early December. Please keep that in mind when coming up with ideas. 

Please post 6-7 ideas for the fourth edition of the year. You must have at least one article idea for each section (News, Sports, A&E, Features, Op/Ed, Center Spread). Be sure to read the other ideas BEFORE you post your own. You can elaborate on another person's post (with a citation, of course). Include an article idea for each section. Be specific and format each idea as such: 
Article Idea: Must interviews (be specific ... "students" is fairly obvious and somewhat lame): Why will people want to read this:

Staff Work

Making your newspaper: you have your stories selected, now you need to create a newspaper. Your newspaper will have stories, graphics, headlines, by-lines, a flag (newspaper title), captions, photo credit, everything from a regular newspaper.

Newspaper size: standard letter (8/5" x 11")
Margins: Standard (.5" all around)
Body text size: Time new Roman, 10 pt
Headlines: No smaller than 25 pt
Caption size: 8 pt
Photo credit size: 7 pt

Here are some tutorials to help you get started. Remember to look at The Voice to see how the little things are formatted. Good luck!

InDesign Palettes & tools
Making a new document
Importing Graphics/Text
Sizing Text to Fit Into a Frame/Box
How to do a drop cap
How to Text Wrap

Ron Elving

For Thursday's class, please read/listen to TWO pieces by Ron Elving and come to class with 3-5 questions pertaining either directly to the pieces you listened to or for Ron Elving in general. Make sure you know who he is, what he does, and what he covers. He'll be joining our class at 830am.

We'll be in the Annex.

Weeks 11 & 12: lots of good stuff

The Old Solider Who Didn't Fade Away: A great profile piece on a dedicated man. What do you think of the style of the piece? The format? Is this a successful profile?

Birth of a Salesman: Do you remember life before Amazon? Probably not because it was started when you were wee little lads and lasses. This is a solid profile piece on the CEO: Jeff Bezos. What do you think of the style of this piece? The format? Is this a successful profile?

Mazda5: Yes, I am secretly in love with this writer. He writes car reviews, but my how amazing they are! Really. Truly. Then again, maybe you don't agree. Is this a successful car review? What makes it a good/bad review?

Coming out to the World on the Web: A great piece on the newest (and maybe riskiest) way to come out: youtube! Is there an MA story in here? What do you think of this practice?

Headline & Captions: Edition 3

Please make it clear about which article you are posting. But this is the place to post your headline ideas and your caption (if applicable) ideas. Be creative, appropriate and active with those verbs.

Week 10: Some serious stuff

In this Rape Center, the patient was 3: A disturbing piece but one that is well written and clearly articulated. What are your thoughts on this topic? Is there a way to get the MA community aware of this topic? What do you think of the structure of this piece?

Steve Jobs: The Secular Prophet — Lots of news about Steve Jobs' death, but this was especially poignant in how it addressed his impact. What are your thoughts? How about the structure? Overall ideas presented? Do you agree?

Week 9: Satire!

Driving the Rich into the Sea: A great example of satire, this piece offers an interesting idea regarding taxes and the rich. What makes this a successful satirical piece? What kind of MA issues would be perfect for satire? Remember -- this is more than mockery; this is about presenting something so ridiculous the actual issue becomes ridiculous.

Better Ideas Through Failure: Clearly this is a hot topic right now. If you read the NYT piece, how is this one different? If you didn't read the other piece, what are your thoughts on this issue? How does failure play into life at MA? If you life? Why does failure have such a bad rap?