Tips to create a truly collaborative media team
DURING A STAFF PHOTO SHOOT, Victor Kalil takes Theo Prineas’ photo. Putting yearbook staffers on TheLittleHawk. com staff page and Little Hawk journalists on the yearbook staff helped bridge the gap between the two staffs. The media teams shared personnel, resources and content to tell as many stories of the school year as possible. PHOTOS BY JONATHAN ROGERS
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n a growing trend, I have moved from solely advising a newspaper publication to now advising a newspaper, yearbook, web site and broadcast video team. Adding yearbook to the schedule can be rough. I know 30 years ago when I was in high school, the staffs did not mix. Things hadn’t changed much when I tried to get them to work together years back. Yearbook lived in yearbook world and the paper team lived in newspaper world. Over time, I have learned that the clans can be united. Here are a few tips to get your teams to work as one:
JONATHAN ROGERS, MJE CITY HS • IOWA CITY, IA