Maybe I didn’t exactly get off on the right foot with my team at the beginning of SAGA this year. For some reason in my mind I pictured last years SAGA staff all coming together (minus seniors) and simply picking up right where we left off. This fantasy, of course, was never realized, but in it’s place came a far better idea.
This team is probably the best I had. The newbies were welcomed with a warm greeting,and old friends were greeted like, well, like old friends. During a lot of the team-building exercises, there was a lot of complaining (yes, myself definitely included) but after a while, we really came together as a group, which is crucial if we want to get this newspaper up off the ground.
Why am I telling you about this?
A newspaper depends on its staff. If there is no staff, there is no newspaper. Therefore, by extension, a bad staff leads to a bad newspaper. If the staff cannot work together, the newspaper will fail.
Think about it. If business and advertising can’t communicate with page layout, how will the editors know how much to tell the staffwriters to write? Or what photos need to be taken, and what size they should be. A newspaper staff needs to work like a well-oiled machine, or the whole thing can fall apart.
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