JOUR 280

I’m not going to pretend that this was a spectacular paper because I know it wasn’t It makes me wish I would have chosen Thursday’s paper to edit, but I know that either way, they’re being published, so it might as well be looked at.  

• A1
• Older photo for top story 
  • Wasn’t able to get new photos without someone from Student affairs present. Now we’re only allowed in once/week if we tell them a day or two in advance 
• Another old photo with the wrong photo credit (it’s a file photo) 
  • Flu shot centers weren’t open this past Sunday while we were laying out the paper. We also need someone from student affairs for these photos. 
• I’m not very happy with the widows and orphans in the subheads 
• I wish we could have gotten more than a few zoom photos, but I also know it’s difficult to get more than that for some things right now. 
• A2 
  • The photo of KAM’s isn’t as recent as I would like it to be, but I do think it shows a lot of people gathering in the bars which was what we were trying to do. 
• A3 
  • I am aware that we don’t usually/are not supposed to include graphics within news, but since it was more of a feature-style story, I think it went with it pretty nicely.  
  • I would prefer the portrait be smaller, but A1/A3 are usually the last ones to be designed, so it was difficult to mess around with different design layouts. The portrait photo was also pretty grainy, but it was the only photo of her that we were provided with and could find. 
• A4 
  • Another instance of widows in sub heads 
  • I think that, although it’s a zoom photo, the photo used in this article was cool because it showed the whole group, even though they weren’t in person.  
  • For both of these pages, I am aware that the art is massive. I would really prefer that Features has three stories instead of two each paper, but sometimes it just isn’t feasible. 
• A5 
  • Same things apply here. I wish I could have made the art smaller, but we have a lot of room for some generally small articles.  
  • I think we would benefit from three features stories. 
• A6 
  • We have a new night editor and he didn’t catch the drop cap error. I also am at fault because I didn’t thoroughly check his work before we sent the pages over. 
  • He also didn’t adjust the size of the headline when he made the adjustment on the page. This was another thing I could have caught before I sent the pages. 
  • I also think the second headline should be a lot smaller. 
  • I don’t like that the second photo is seemingly a lot bigger than the first photo. I think the second article should have gone on top too. 
• B1 
  • I think B1 generally turned out pretty well. 
  • Decent-sized photos. 
  • The spacing around the Mike Epstein headline was a little wonky. Definitely needed to be adjusted 
• B2 
  • This page is definitely pretty text-heavy 
• B3 
  • I don’t like the very horizontal photo at the top. Definitely not the size that a portrait needs to be. We tried placing it elsewhere in the layout, but it messed with the balance of the page. 
  • Headline is touching the chancellor photo 
• B5 
  • This page doesn’t seem too bad to me. I don’t think the photo needed that much attention and, while it’s pretty horizontal, it fits pretty much everything that we need to see into it. 
• B6 
  • These photos were huge, I know. 
  • I definitely could have included some elements such as subheads or pull quotes in the story to take away from the size of the photos. I think buzz is also an area where we need more than 2 stories. It’s just not super feasible here either because of the lack of events going on on campus.   

A1:

• The picture is a month old for top story
  • That woman has been in several photographs
• Screenshot from student gov. Story is awkward
• Too much text in headline for student gov story, takes up too much space
• Can we abbreviate in sub heads? ARC story
  • Story is about the ARC but not photographed

A2:

• Older Kams photo
• Top photo is very large

A3:

• The mask photo is awkwardly placed
• Large portrait photo
• Large photos at the bottom
• Last photo is a little scary looking

A4:

• Covalence bottom photo could be smaller
• Lots of subheading in the paper in general

A5:

• Large graphics but I like them

A6: 

• Second headline has awkward space
• taylor swift story shouldn’t be at the top
• second story picture is large

B1:

• Top photo is a little too big 
• Could use more text

B2:

• Way too much text
• Could use another small photo with alumni story if we shrunk the picture on B1 bc there would be less text
• Picture doesn’t necessarily fit with story
• Rankings jump is very shory

B3:

• Don’t love the portrait style picture at the top
• Similar look every paper

Buzz:

• Pictures are huge
• Could use more stories