<p>ouch ^. I have to agree with the way above poster who talked about yearbook deadlines. my editor-in-chief last year had about 5 dedicated people (incl me) to do about 210 pages (+190 pages of ads)…yeah. This year, we have the complete opposite-about 70 girls doing a page or two, and 8-9 dedicated every-dayers. It’s getting really frustrating b/c the people who come a little take forever to do just CAPTIONS, while the other 8-9 people don’t have any assignments b/c the “newbies” take up space.</p>
<p>i personally have no problem with people starting out–but if you don’t know anything about it, you should at least come in the beginning!!! or tell someone you dropped out…i have SO MUCH RESPECT for my editor-in-chief (s) past and present.</p>
<p>to all those newspaper folks, Yearbook is not “fluff”–try doing pictures, captions, AND a story within a designed layout. Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it. I’m on both, so I can say that both have pros/cons, but why so many anti-yearbook posts?</p>
<p>I think that some people get the impression that yearbook is a lot easier. Obviously both have their positive and negative parts, but creating a yearbook isn’t a piece of cake. Some things such as the sports are covered throughout the entire season, and staple events such as Homecoming must be covered. If something is missing for these, then there may be a problem. I think that in terms of coverage, Newspaper does more short-term stuff.</p>
<p>Haha don’t get me wrong–my best friend was the editor-in-chief of our yearbook last year (now she’s in college) and she was extremelyyy dedicated. I respect her completely. I’ll be the first to admit I don’t know as much about design as yearbook people, but there really isn’t anything thought-provoking or controversial text-wise in a yearbook, which is where my comment came from.</p>
<p>Yeah, I find newspapers more interesting as well. I like how one may write opinion and subjective pieces for Newspaper, while Yearbook articles are pretty much just all based on facts and often sound sort of corny and cheesy, in my opinion.</p>
<p>i’ve been editor for our newspaper for the last three years and it can get tough trying to juggle designing/writing articles for the paper w/ designing layouts for the yearbook (that’s why i only do one or two spreads at the most ). most of my time is spent w/ the newspaper, being the editor and all. lol.</p>
<p>this is my take on this. with the newspaper, i’ve been forced to stretched my designing skills AND writing skills. designing is my first love and that’s what i mostly enjoy when it comes to newspaper but being forced into writing an article (because i HAVE to submit one) has made me into a much better writer. so in a sense, if you want a more well-rounded experience, consider joining the newspaper because you get to practice your design and writing skills. that’s if of course you do both writing and designing.</p>
<p>Yearbook- Captures the entire year into one, it also is used with the local sherrifs/police department, makes it easier to remember your highschool, people actually keep your hard work</p>
<p>Newspaper- People dont really appreciate it, but you get to get into the now, people throw it away when they’re done using it</p>
<p>do newspaper. yearbook sux. lol. but seriously, yearbook seems to be composed on all pictures and stories that no one reads while newspaper actually serves a purpose: to inform, galvanize, and solve.</p>
<p>I’ve been doing a lot of research into our two programs, and I found out that Yearbook in fact has a lot of benefits. Basically, it’s about 30 kids working on a 400 page yearbook, which means everyone has a lot of articles and layouts and pictures to work on. In addition to this, both newspaper and yearbook attend Columbia for journalism camp in the summer. Yearbook has the special benefit that the advisor favors yearbook, so yearbook gets internships too…I think I’ll do yearbook :-D. Our school yearbook has won numerous awards and it’s very interesting. Thank you everyone! I would do newspaper, but it’s become a mass collective of articles that lay stranded in our hallways and I’d rather work on something where I can work on a lot of pages and have people keep my work.</p>
<p>i did both in high school. frankly, just do what youre interested in. at my high school, the yearbook was a much larger time commitment than the newspaper … it depends how much time and energy you want to put into the activity.</p>
<p>Ha, I’m the Opinion Editor at my school and I need to write an article before I go to bed tonight. I haven’t started yet and I’ve changed my mind about the topic 4 times in the last hour. Good luck to me.</p>
I like how one may write opinion and subjective pieces for Newspaper, while Yearbook articles are pretty much just all based on facts and often sound sort of corny and cheesy, in my opinion.</p>