Goal for staff: Make each day your masterpiece. You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By applying yourself to the task of becoming a little better each and every day over a period of time, you will become a lot better. Only then will you be able to approach being the best you can be.

Goal for editors & advisor: Define success for those under your leadership as total commitment and effort to the team's welfare. Then show it yourself with your own effort and performance. Most of those you lead will do the same. Those who don't should be encouraged to look for a new team. — John Wooden

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

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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