Ride the Thunder Coaster
Editor-In-Chief, Roseana Cruz, works hard in order to keep the rhythm flowing in the Thunder Media Classroom.
December 17, 2009 • Lindsey Laski
Filed under Classes, Journalism
For the past five months, the journalism class at Desert Vista has been working very hard in order to spread the news about the campus. They have 18 staff members this year, all new to the class, excluding Editor-In-Chief, Roseana Cruz, and Managing Editor, Lindsey Laski.They have been working very hard with everyone to produce media.
“This year’s staff has been extremely difficult. Most of them lack experience, drive, and talent,” said Editor-In-Chief, Roseana Cruz.
Their advisor, Michelle Coro has also been helping tremendously to push along the process and educate the staff members about journalism.
“My vision is to have a full-scale media program. I want to help made journalists of tomorrow who are confident in writing, taking photos, shooting video, working with the web, designing, producing audio and more,” said Desert Vista Media Adviser, Michelle Coro.
In the years past, the staff has produced 8 regular issues and 1 special issue of their newspaper called The View. In the beginning of this year, the plan changed for once. They decided to create a magazine over the course of the semester instead of the original newspaper they usually do.
“The idea of a newspaper was developed last summer at journalism camp. It was there that my fellow staffers and I presented a plan for the magazine and won an award for it. However, the plan was not attempted until this year,” said Cruz.
This idea took a turn at the end of the first quarter. Coro did not believe that the magazine was all that it should be, let alone finished. Half way through the semester, the staff members went back to the normal idea of creating a newspaper. Since they worked solely on the magazine for the first quarter, they were not able to put out the first issue of a newspaper until the end of the second quarter.
“This is the first time since I’ve been at DV that we’ve had only one paper this far into the year. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. We’ve made really good progress with our online site, DVTHUNDERMEDIA.COM. It’s been a high learning curb, but if we stick to it, we will continue to improve,” said Coro.
Not only did they put out the first newspaper issue, they have been working on creating their media site, DVTHUNDERMEDIACOM. The online site, hosted by Schools Newspapers Online, purchased for $1,400 in October 2009. Each week they write stories pertaining to Desert Vista and upload them onto the site for everyone to view. The staff members have been using the site to the fullest and seem to enjoy it very much.
“I think it is a very good idea to have DVTHUNDERMEDIA.COM because nowadays, so many kids are on the computer more than anything so it is available to them no matter what,” said Staff Member, Megan Johnson.
In the beginning of the year, Coro told the moving story of what this class will be like. In her own words, she described it as a rollercoaster. There will be ups and downs to the class and it can get overwhelming but in the end, you want to do it all over again, just like a rollercoaster ride.
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