Cedars, March 2018

March 2018 5 CAMPUS Editing by Section When the writer completes the article, he or she sends it to their section editor to look for content and grammar issues. Rather than rewriting the story for a writer, the section editor will make comments on what needs to be changed in the story, as well as what should stay, and sends it back to the writer. The writer must then make changes quickly to meet publication deadlines. “I really enjoy the learning process,” D’Alfonso said. “The ability to work with my editors, and with the writers, and help them in that process of really putting out great content, solving problems ... to help and direct where that story that is good can become great.” Page Creation by Designers Next, the stories are sent to the digital and design editor to be made into the pages that will actually go to print. The pages are designed in Adobe InDesign on templates, which are used for each issue. These templates may be altered slightly to match a theme for issues, but they are kept fairly uniform. Designers are assigned pages based on their strengths, and they usually design the same group of pages each time. The page design takes four days to complete, with three more days scheduled for review and changes. Final Page Edits Pages for print are then taken to proofing meetings the week before publication. There, at least three of the other section editors review the articles for the issue and make comments and corrections. The section editor may request final corrections from the writer, or make the changes themselves. Finally, the entire paper is reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief. Once he believes the issue is ready for publishing, he sends it to the faculty advisor, professor Jeff Gilbert. Review by Faculty Adviser The faculty advisor will then review the paper one last time, send any final change suggestions to the writer or one of the editors, and approve the paper for publishing. He then sends the pages to the printer. The completed issues are then picked up and placed on the stands located around campus. Though Cedars is overseen by a faculty advisor, it is intended to be mainly student run. “[My job,] in a nutshell is to oversee, be there for advice, be there to follow up with them, be there to answer questions in the process, and let it be theirs as much as possible,” Gilbert said. “And they’ve done well.” Hannah Day is a freshman forensic science major from Pennsylvania and campus reporter for Cedars. She enjoys theater, music, and correcting people. Pictures by Photographers While writers put the written side of the articles together, Cedars’ photographers gather pictures to accompany the stories. Most stories require action shots or images from the event with visible faces. Each photographer is suggested to have their own camera, though the models may vary and class cameras can be checked out for assignments. Sometimes, a photo gallery may be created for an event. These are displayed on the Cedars website and contain six to eight images of the event. Emily Sulka, the photography editor for Cedars, described this as a “news story in pictures.” “I like getting to see more of the events,” Sulka said. “I like to see the event through the pictures and really get to know the story through that.” 5 6 7 9 8