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Day 782x7: Quote patterns, the semi-colon, and COD

OK people, it's time to seriously review some quote patterns and formatting issues:

1. Correct the mistakes in this sentence
"It was a great game." Holland Bool said, "We surprised San Marin and crushed them with our mighty play."

2. Correct the mistakes in this sentence
"It's clear we were a better team," Bool said. "We played with greater skill, they just couldn't handle our defense."

3. Correct the mistakes in these sentences
Bool also commented on why the team won the game. "We were just better and played with great effort."

4. Correct the mistakes in these sentences
"I love water polo, and playing 2-meter is where I get to see the most action with the ball," said Bool. "There is also a lot of action on the perimeter."

Kate Claman agreed, "The perimeter is where a lot of action takes place."

5. Correct the mistakes in these sentences
It's obvious that water polo is an intense and vigorous sport. It takes dedication, heart, soul, humor, and lots of time in the water. The Marin Academy girls water polo team has shown that it can hang with the best of teams and play strong defense no matter what. They are a great group of gals, and as the season comes to a close let's wish them all lots of luck.

Conference on Democracy
A block panel moderators: Morgan & Phillip. Write intros and organize questions.
G block panel moderators: Chiara & Taylor (a great video to help you get some shape to the questions). Write intros and organize questions.

Day 872: Drafts, COD, graphics, briefs and more

Let's get down to work:
Editors: read all drafts. Make final edits, suggestions, criticisms. What should the graphic look like?
Staff: Tiger -- get those senior speeches up; Holland -- how goes those videos?; Chiara -- are you less stressed than last week? Let's get up those book suggestions from Trevor!; Henry -- did you interview more people? You know you're on to video the senior speeches on Thursday, right?; Olivia -- you've talked to more humans, on the record, right?

Start to think about ... articles for next edition!

After all is said and done -- we need to work on the COD questions. Get cracking. Work in teams. Let's come up with a good collection of questions so we can edit them down and make them better!

A few good reads for Snowden:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/11/us/edward-snowden-fast-facts/index.html

http://www.npr.org/2013/09/11/221359323/reporter-had-to-decide-if-snowden-leaks-were-the-real-thing

http://world.time.com/2013/10/14/greenwald-on-snowden-leaks-the-worst-is-yet-to-come/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/leaks-by-edward-snowden-suggest-nsa-collects-millions-of-americans-address-books/2013/10/15/ce043b56-359f-11e3-be86-6aeaa439845b_story.html

Some insights into the anonymous quote from a friend an fellow journalism advisor:

We do occasionally run anonymous quotes, when the information is both sensitive and unobtainable without granting anonymity. For example, we just did a strong piece, out tomorrow, about Shelby's Law, which passed in 2010 in California, that gives minors immunity from alcohol-related infractions if they summon help for someone who is suffering from alcohol poisoning or other problems related to the overconsumption of alcohol.

We had a couple of students quoted in the story anonymously who were describing circumstances at parties when they let drunk friends just "sleep it off," and how they would respond differently now that they know the law exists. But those students were not willing to have their names attached to the stories, and I agreed with my reporters that the anecdotal information the sources had to offer was critical in putting the law in context. And so, we granted anonymity.

But a kid who just wants to anonymously offer a one-sentence hit-and-run on a drama program or on the individuals associated with the program? And wants to do it with verbal obscenity?

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Day 11: Article work & style!

1. Ideas for article interviews; general check-in.
2. Review of style sheet. We have to adhere to the same style or else we look bad.
1. quote patterns, numbers, titles, and more!
3. Senior arts need to be uploaded (Taylor); Senior speech uploaded (Philip)
4. How are the video briefs coming? (Holland & Henry)
5. Instagram and twitter content info. Pushing to get something on both every day.
6. Some ideas for regular outside contributions
1. Weekly/bi-weekly book list from Trevor/Derek (A&E)
2. Weekly sports photo from MCT (sports)
3. My MA weekly piece (opinion)
4. News of the week from MCT (news)

Day 10: Article assigning and briefs due

1. Are all briefs in? How was this round?
2. Article assigning:

Victims push laws to push online revenge posts
New law proposes reset of youths' online history
Does Social Media Make Us Narcissists?
Cost of College
The best clothing store ever: Brandy/Brandi/Brandee/Bran-d
COD preview

Some ideas for regular outside contributions:
Weekly or biweekly book list from Trevor/Derek? (A&E)
Weekly sports photo from MCT (sports)
My MA weekly piece (opinion)
Weekly news piece from MCT (news)

3. Senior Arts needs to get uploaded (Taylor), as does Isabelle's senior speech (Philip)
4. Some style review (quote patterns, numbers, titles, and more)
5. A great read on how to make the most of Twitter

Day 9: Article due!

1. Are all articles in with graphics? Push out graphics to Instagram. Push out teasers to Facebook and twitter.
2. Ideas for next edition? What's coming up on the calendar? Next deadline is 10/16.

Some ideas from the real world:
New law proposes reset of youths' online history
Cost of College
The best clothing store ever: Brandy/Brandi/Brandee/Bran-d
COD preview

New rule: everyone writes alone .....

Day 8: Briefs, article ideas, more MCT, and some reflection

1. Briefs due! Editors edit.

2. This was the third time through with your brief. Do you want to change? Stay with the same thing? New ideas?

3. Graphic needs for articles (due next class)

4. Looking through other school newspaper, what ideas can inspire us?

5. Looking at our own website, what's missing? Have all sections been added to this year?

New round of briefs:
Health & Wellness: Chiara
Profile: Olivia
Polls: Tiger Chow
Unusual News: Phillip
Fashion: Sara Scannell
30 secs with: Holland (video)
Meh list: Henry (video)
Pop Culture Column: Taylor