They make appointments with teachers for interviews, put together a storyboard, are given story assignments, take photographs for the stories and write and edit stories. There are two publishers and two layout directors on the staff of each newspaper. Most others are writers. The children are learning important lessons, such as cooperation and teamwork. The business management staff secures advertising, classifieds and circulation.
Students take orders, distribute the papers and account for the funds received.
Complimentary copies are given to the school staff and the newspaper staff. We do layout and pasteup like they did it before computers. The kids even come up with their own masthead. The excitement is even spreading down to fourth graders, Pell said. They're looking forward to doing their own paper when they become fifth-graders.