Two weeks notice

By Grace Cueter, Annabelle Julien & Grace Rossman EDITOR-IN-CHIEF & MANAGING EDITORS

DISTRIBUTION MANAGER

Alyssa King

STAFF REPORTERS

Shayla Andrews

Mary Bentley

Isabella Boedeker

Sage Cole

Wren Cueter

Maggie Dunn

Gabe Goode

Sofia Gualdoni

Lauren Kaled

Stephanie Karoutsos

Lilly Kline

Troy Lipscomb

Allie Mattes

Allie McIntyre

Sasha Poradun

Gianna Roux

Mia Schultz

Lauren Veitengruber

Hayley Zalewski

The North Pointe is edited and produced by Advanced Journalism students at Grosse Pointe North High School and is published once a month. It is in practice a designated public forum without prior review.

Our editorial represents the opinion of the North Pointe Editorial Board. Members who have a conflict of interest with an editorial topic do not partake in that meeting or vote.

Comments should be directed to the student editors, who make all final content decisions. The views expressed are solely those of the student authors of the editorial board and do not reflect the opinions of the Grosse Pointe Public School System.

We are a member of the Michigan Scholastic Press Association, Columbia Scholastic Press Association, National Scholastic Press Association and Student Press Law Center.

One copy is available free to all community members. Additional copies may be purchased. Our editorial policy and advertising rates are available online.

Faculty Adviser: Allison Dunn

SENIORS

Last year in our incoming message, we promised to modernize the layout of our publication in order to create a fresh new style for our newspaper. We started from scratch, experimenting with a brand new layout that we created over the summer. Hearing student feedback after our first issue was published, we knew we were on the right track. Through each issue we published, we continued to improve and modernized North Pointe by successfully capturing the interest of our student body. We are truly proud of each and every issue we have published this year and sincerely believe our new style has changed the course of North Pointe for the better. When we first stepped into our roles as the North Pointe Executive Board, we acknowledged our journalistic duty to cover the varying interests of our readers and clearly report on the topics in our community. This year, we sent out a readership survey to the community, including students, teachers, parents and community members that engage with our publication. Because 86% of responses emphasized their preference for reading our content in our physical publication, we focused on making changes to the paper that reflected who and what they wanted to see more of. We expanded our sports and editorial sections from one page to two pages. We captured more student life with the use of our new camera equipment. We featured more students in our “Faces in the Crowd” series on our Instagram.

North Pointe has provided us with essential skills such as becoming powerful writers, ambitious designers and confident leaders, all of which we will carry with us as we leave high school. The newsroom is our second home, due to both the people in the room and what we do there. We will truly miss being part of such a special publication.

We wish the incoming executive board Elly Meteer as Editor-in-Chief and Katie Madigan as Managing Editor as well as the staff for the 2023-2024 school year the best of luck. As we count down the days till graduation excited for where we will go next, we cannot wait to see what the future holds for North Pointe. We will be forever grateful for everything this program has given us.

By Katie Madigan & Elly Meteer SECTION EDITORS

human element within our reporting. We also plan on reviving our podcast series to facilitate a more intimate and raw connection with our audience.

For over half a century, the North Pointe has served as the voice for the student body. As incoming leaders for next year’s publication, it is our ambition to continue this legacy and further improve our student news outlet. Our goal as next year’s Executive Board is to continue to modernize the paper and maintain our reliability as a news source.

We aim to enhance our website and expand our readership beyond the physical paper. We plan to cultivate eye-catching elements for our web design to encapsulate a visually appealing online presence to improve our publication’s accessibility and connection to the community. Through social media, we will introduce additional ongoing segments in order to maintain a

As student journalists, we strive to cover a diverse array of topics that interest our student body, while also maintaining journalistic integrity. We hope to shed light on the many different extracurriculars and student interests through our publication so we ensure every student feels represented. It is also our priority to maintain our reliability as misinformation can be seen in many media outlets today. We are committed to ensuring our publication is factual in order to support our student body in forming well educated opinions.

We would like to express our gratitude for our previous Executive Board, Grace Cueter as Editorin-Chief and Annabelle Julien and Grace Rossman as Managing Editors, for their tremendous contributions to our revised newspaper. Their dedicated leadership and diligent attitudes toward journalism have strongly influenced our initiatives for next year. As we transition into our new roles, we hope to honor the legacy that has been paved before us. Through our shared passion for the art of journalism we will spread our enthusiasm for writing and reporting with the entire North community.