From Fall 2003 through Spring 2007, I served as adviser to the student newspaper, The Salem State Log. I saw the newspaper as an educational opportunity for my students, and so my main goal was to create an environment that most closely as possible replicated a professional newspaper environment.
Among my accomplishments during my advisorship are:
• establishing a regular publication schedule, growing the paper from six semi-monthly issues a year to 16 biweekly issues annually;
• establishing and training an advertising department that grew to annual revenues of $50,000;
• growing the staff from five students to over 60;
• establishing a self-reproducing editorial board with 15 members;
• establishing a system of associate editors and editors emeritus, to maintain continuity from year to year;
• digitizing the entire newspaper production process, from writing to filing to editing to pagination to printing; and
• upgrading all pagination, design and production facilities to state-of-the-art Macintosh-based hardware and software.
For a narrative description of some of the work I did there, written in Spring 2005, click here.
Staff photos (click for full-sized images)
Sample issues (click on the image to view a PDF)
