Staff Responsibilities

Editor-in-Chief

The Editor-in-Chief should be responsible and a leader who knows and meets all deadlines.  He/she should listen to the staff and accept ideas understanding that the newspaper is a team effort.  He/she should interact and check-in frequently with the rest of the staff as well as the advisor.  Through this interaction, the editor should help the advisor to make sure that the staff is completing their articles and jobs. The editor cannot be impartial to people's stories based on subject matter or friendship.

Other responsibilities include:

• helping students workshop and edit stories
• laying out and editing the newspaper
• monthly column
• training assistant editor
• meeting weekly with advisor
• dropping off thumb drive at Mt. Mail
• keeping the editor's desk and area clean

Assistant Editor

The Assistant should be responsible and a leader who knows and meets all deadlines.  He/she should listen to the staff and accept ideas understanding that the newspaper is a team effort.  He/she should interact and check-in frequently with the rest of the staff as well as the advisor.  Through this interaction, the assistant editor should help the advisor to make sure that the staff is completing their articles and jobs. The assistant editor cannot be impartial to people's stories based on subject matter or friendship.

Other responsibilities include:

• helping students workshop and edit stories
• learning layout for the newspaper
• assisting in laying out and editing the newspaper
• monthly column
• meeting weekly with Editor-in-Chief and advisor
• emailing PDF’s to District for the website and to the Salida Citizen
• confirming dates of publication with Mt. Mail
• keeping the editor's desk and area clean 

Responsibilities include:

• making sure to sell enough ads to pay for the issue
• selling ads to local businesses
• creating and distributing business cards
• following up with businesses to purchase ads
• relaying ad information – size, color, ad design – to Editor-in-Chief
• overseeing others who are selling ads
• keeping track of receipts
• bringing checks to Mrs. Coscarella
• keeping track of TFT Budget (including purchases for TFT staff and conferences) 

(See Advertising for ads procedures and details.)

Sports Editor

Responsibilities include:

• brainstorming the season’s sports
• distributing sports stories for the season
• making sure all sports are covered each season – photos and articles (not necessarily in the same issue)
• covering some sporting events for the season
• editing all other sports pieces before the advisor sees them
• teaching/mentoring students to write sports
• writing a monthly sports/personal column

Names Editor 

 Responsibilities include:

• retrieving and keeping track of list of student names (this list can be obtained from the guidance counselor)
• checking all names in the paper including students, staff, and community members. 

 Responsibilities include:

• archiving issues each month in filing cabinet
• archiving exchange papers in filing cabinet
• organizing students to assemble exchange papers (See directions to the right for exchange papers.)
• adding schools to labels for exchange papers
• printing labels 
• retrieving stamps from administration