Newspaper Final

13. The Most important thing this year I have learned while on staff has been effectively communicating with the new students on staff and trying to work together to create a final product of quality work. I am not saying I have learned this and know exactly what I am doing but I have learned so much more this semester in that regard then before. This year with the countless new newspaper students I had to try and work with them and guide them just like the students did ahead of me. On the first issue I did little communicating with the new photographers and just told them what to shoot and was just friendly. However by the third issue I found myself getting more into communicating with the students. Through talking about what to look for in a photo, utilizing our camera lenses, and the importance of angles I think my communicating efforts grew and grew this semester and I learned how to better communicate what we needed to achieve. I hope I continue to grow in my communicating efforts and that the students feel comfortable coming to me with any questions or concerns.

14. Next semester I aim to work on organization. I want the photography board to be more organized and easy to follow. I want photographers who are talking with page editors and our looking at the story that goes with their photos. I also want to eliminate the photo events we had posted with people signed up for that hadn't happened yet. This last issue we had lots of events with people signed up like soccer and the sport hasn't even started yet so nobody could've shot it in the first place. I want the photographers to have an idea in their head before they go out and shoot and look for images with emotion and importance. I think a more fluid organized photography set up would help achieve all these goals and more. Organization and communication our going to be my two big things going forward.

15. I don't know if I have any suggestions but some things that should or would be good to change is that students need to understand deadline. Like students just see it as something they didn't do or something that doesn't matter but if you don't meet deadline and you don't turn in your shit then it screws over the entire paper by making editors quickly put in something else of less quality which hurts the paper. Pull your weight basically. Also we need better story ideas. Our commentary is complete trash, I hate it. Last year we had a good commentary page about stuff that actually mattered and challenged peoples views and ideas, this year I haven't seen a single commentary do that. Maybe Im being too tough but I think our commentary specifically and some stories in the paper in general have gone down hill. We need to think about stories that actually matter and impact us not just fluff. Overall though were doing good, theres been a lot of changes/challenges this year and we have done a great job of maintaing stability and still producing a quality paper.

First Days Newspaper Scavenger Hunt

1.  This year brings many new changes to Bowie from the later start and end time of the school to actual physical changes around campus. Many new digital clocks have been installed around campus as well as signs in the front entrances of the school displaying the different buildings and halls. Theres also new cops that are working this year along with new red and black tables in the halls.

2. Senior Jamie Dorsey said, "Theres lots of new things this year, its fun, I'm back to relearning new teachers and schedules, but things are all getting there," Dorsey said.
Seniors Eduardo Contreras and Kiabre Thomas said, "The new year is really good," Thomas said, "Aquatic science is really cool we get to go on field trips and the teacher is nice."
"Seeing all my friends is nice and engineering with Mr. Evans is a great class," Contreras said.

3. The Schedule is different this year with us starting and ending an extra ten minutes later. This is very helpful to people who have trouble getting up in the morning as an extra ten minutes can go a long way. Overall i like the later start time because it lets me sleep in a little later than normal and still get to class on time.
 The new engineering department is also new this year and has many students interested. Countless students have nothing but good things to say about the engineering class. Senior Eduardo Contreras says, "Engineering is lots of fun and its cool because theres lots of projects we get to do instead of just working in a textbook," Contreras said.

4. The Football team has been working since the summer to get ready for this years game. The first game is against Pflugerville this friday. With countless practices in the boiling heat, the Bowie Bulldawgs take what they do very seriously and hope to have a great year.

6. Bowie Bulldawgs gear up for first game
   New improvements bring in new school experience
   New year new options.
7.  We should write about freshman coming in. Shorter lunch. More important classes the school could offer to help people for real life.

Questions for stories

Im doing a commentary on low gas prices so I don't have questions but heres an overview and brief description of topics ill talk about.
While low gas prices are good for the average american and families its effecting our global economy as oil is dropping at alarming rates. Local economies surrounding domestic drilling and oil production sites stand to lose the most during the oil slowdown. "Falling oil prices and competitive OPEC output means many domestic outfits need to curb production to stay profitable, eroding the economic gains some states have made in the aftermath of the Great Recession," Tom Risen of US News.
Also effects our environment as people will drive more, people driving nationally have already surged 2.6 percent according to the Arizona daily star.

SOURCES
http://tucson.com/news/science/environment/there-are-sides-to-lower-gas-prices/article_df71b9d1-308d-5818-ac73-4f744cb55d56.html

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/01/14/fed-says-low-oil-prices-are-mixed-blessing

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/01/13/cheap-oil-good-news-for-consumers-mixed-bag-for-us-industry

Critique of newspaper

1. One thing I see that I can help with is they said to crop in closer for pictures and show faces more so I can take pictures with that in mind. Also have a clear statement for writing not wishy washy.
2.Keeping the stories focus on a topic and correcting the little mistakes.
3. They said on the photo essay to avoid "cutesy layouts" like the gingerbread issue but i thought that photo essay was interesting and fun to look at and thats what a photo essay should be. It should please the eye and tell a story through images like the gingerbread issue did.
4. Yes, we have a great depth of stories and information, good writing, great in depths that have gotten a lot better through new design techniques and creativity, overall I think we have came up in every aspect of the newspaper.