Editing, Leadership,
& Team Building
Editing, leadership, and team building are crucial in journalism, ensuring accurate, compelling storytelling. Effective leadership guides teams, fosters collaboration, and maintains journalistic standards, essential for producing trustworthy and impactful news coverage.
Editing
As the sports editor for HCA's Yearbook my roles included the following:
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Responsible for the content of the athletic/sports section in the yearbook
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Communicates with coaches to obtain information about teams, captains, season records, rosters, season highlights, and other information as needed
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Identifies and communicates with team captains
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Responsible for obtaining team scores and recording them for the reference section
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Identifies story angles and works with Managing Editor to ensure sports pages are unique and fresh
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Organizes and manages sports group photos and places them in the reference section
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Responsible for the organization and management of sports team rosters
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Leads staff assigned to sports pages by thinking creatively with story assignments and projects; encourages enterprising for sports news and features
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Leadership
My Elementary school was a Leader in Me school, teaching leadership skills based off Stephen Covey's 7 habits of highly effective people. Those foundational practices were instilled in me at a young age and now it is something that I feel I have continued for the rest of my life to this point. The best lesson I ever learned though? When to be a leader and when to humble yourself and allow yourself to be led. Understanding this was essential as the sports editor, because I was far from being the highest person on the leadership scale, but I still had a leadership role.
LEADERSHIP ROLES
As a student body representative, I listen to students, present their needs to the council, and work to make them a reality.
STUDENT COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE