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What went well:
- BEAUTIFUL artwork, stunning visuals and wonderful articles.

What could've been improved:
- Make sure that word following dropcap is not the same colour as the drop cat (ex: Desiree's spread).

what to do next time:
- DOUBLE CHECK SPREADS !!

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I'm really proud of the fact that I've been able to do more photography in the second semester, and I'm especially proud of the SEIU coverage. I genuinely think those were some of my best articles so far this year and I couldn't have done it without my cowriter, Maggie. I've also improved at spread design, they're still a little boring compared to what some of the other editors do, but they're starting to incorporate more pull quotes and artwork. I can't wait for what next year brings!

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I spent a large portion of my three-day weekend wasting away in bed sleeping under the weight of multiple blankets as the air conditioner rattled on in the hallway. The pillow was soft and maleable under me and I was able to sleep for most of it, relaxing only when the sun would be well-past noon and the evening was starting to creep in. It was absolutely wonderful, getting to sleep for that long and that well.

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I had a math test today that was really easy, so my friend and I finished very quickly and both felt quite confident about it. So when we were done, because we had no other assignments or anything to do after one IXL, we just watched youtube and had a fun time. He always makes second period a fun time where otherwise it would feel like a slog.

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When I was in the seventh grade, we went to a water reservoir that was meant to show us the water cycle in regards to our seventh grade class biology class, when we were learning about the various scientific spheres of our planet (biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, geosphere). The reservoir was situated right next to a giant dam, which had quite a long drop and gave me vertigo whenever I down. My friends and l joked about pushing each other in, and part of me wondered how hard the fall would be - when you fall into water from a long drop, it hurts, like a concrete slab you fall into. That was the most important part of the trip for me, the fall into the reservoir - as I spent the rest of it in a haze, not really caring for most of it. I've never been interested in the mechanics of the hydrosphere, only the boats that travel atop it.

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Seniors Grant Asner and Sabrina Robertson stand together for a photo after winning Prom Royalty together. The pair won by an overwhelming amount during the voting period at the prom ceremony. "I was kind of expecting it," Robertson said. "The two other options were already called, and I was very excited, but by the time my name was called I wasn't screaming. I'm still really happy though."

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1.Deadly Traffic in Suburbia Points to Deep-Seated Structural Problems

I like this headline because it specifically highlights the issue the article will be about - deadly traffic - while also addressing the root of the problem, the deep-seated structural problems. It piques the reader's interest in seeing what the solution will be and to also understand the severity of the trouble in suburbia.

2. Now is not the time to be scared. It is time to consider an L.A. free of the freeways

First off, I like the statement - it clearly delivers the topic and stance the article will have on the topic, and I like the word play (free of the freeways). I think it just nicely sets up the article's focus and also presents the author's viewpoint.

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Hoping for summer vacation and the chance to rest up : )

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Johnny Depp at Cannes: ‘I Don’t Have Much Further Need for Hollywood’

CANNES, France — At first, you had to wonder if they were running out the clock.

Twenty minutes after the Cannes Film Festival news conference for “Jeanne du Barry” was supposed to begin on Wednesday, neither the film’s actress-director, Maïwenn, nor her lead actor, Johnny Depp, had actually shown up.

Were they hoping to avoid questions? For Maïwenn, who was accused of spitting on a journalist in February, and Depp, who recently won a defamation suit against his ex-wife Amber Heard after she made allegations of physical and sexual abuse, queries about their personal scandals could overwhelm all talk of the movie they were meant to promote. Both had been in attendance the previous night when “Jeanne du Barry” opened the festival, but Cannes premieres are famously fawning and conclude with a customary standing ovation. Meeting the press would be a whole different matter.

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I would really want to attend a session on writing better headlines. Headlines are the worst thing for me - I really struggle on creating a concise but eye-catching headline that is well-written and I think attending a workshop session on improving headline writing would definitely help me improve in that department.

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St. Louis Park High School's "Echo" newspaper has this really cute spread which was showcased in the 21 NSPA Pacemaker Award Winners. I like the creative use of post-it notes to add in a pop of colour, and the large image on the left makes it eye catching. However, I think that the font could have been more interesting, the way our magazine's is - but I just also dislike Arial family fonts, so I am biased in that regard. Once again, the QR codes make their appereance, something we absolutely need to add to our magazine's pages in  order to draw  more readers from the print to the web . I think the page flows smoothly, with the placement of the "sticky notes" not breaking up anything too dramatically.

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Redondo Union High School's "High Tide," produces this absolutely blazing spread, which was showcased in the 21 NSPA Pacemaker Award Winners. I really like the usage of the double-spread, where the image is on the left and the information and story is on the right. Though I think the infographics in the middle could've been smaller to give the story's text some breathing room, I find that the overall composition works really well. The image faces the story, naturally drawing your eye to the right of it and straight towards the inforgrapihics. Then, you go back up to read the story. The cream-colour of the background works well with the dulled red and cyan that dominate the spread itself, and the black font works really well to pop out among all the less-saturated colours.

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From Westlake High School's "El Paisano," found in the 2022 Josten Look Book, comes a spread that diverges from the typical white background of a paper and dyes it in a brilliant light-black. The white text overlayed underneath, the minimalist lines on the left that outline the article create a cohesive line for the eye to follow. To say nothing of the label behind it, which calls to attention to the words at the forefront of it. The asymmetry of the bottom three images, with the captions going topsy-turvy to bounce the eye up and down - letting it read the caption and see the three images fully as well as read the captions.

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Headline (should be about 36pt) should go entirely across the page
Subheadline (36/30 + period)  should go entirely across the page
byline

photos should be the box w X on it
caption goes all across to end of photo

Second headline (30pt)

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1.  ?
2. Somewhere where a five year old could die (Mall)
3. Guilty (Liable)
4.  ? (5 million in damages)
5.  George Santos
6.  Florida

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This spread from The Harbinger of Shawnee Mission East High School, Kansas, is really fun. I think the right side is really cramped, but I can't think of a way to reduce it other than cutting down the story, as the visual on the left is interesting due to the way it pops out. It's design as a billiard table also makes it for an interesting composition that really breaks the typical two-page spread mold. Overall, it pops out and makes for a creative design due to how it also uses the border, showing only a fraction of the billiard circle thing instead of the whole thing, with information being laid out on its sections instead of the regular billiard numbers/words.

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This spread from the Maize Career Academy of Maize, Kansas (Fun fact, Maize was one of the things exported from the Western Hemisphere into Europe during the Colombian Exchange) is incredibly cramped. I think the bottom designs could certainly have been shrunk to spread the text out, because it feels super cramped as it is. It also feels bland in a way, is the black and white meant to be intentional for how blurred beauty standards have become? I'm not sure if it really resonates, because it feels kind of bland as it is. On the bottom right the text overlays the images and blends in, which means that it barely sticks out.

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Corning, NY High School "It's about Time," yearbook has this fun spread. The bright red-orange really pops out against the white and compliments the photos, which are also red. I don't like how the 'BEHIND' part of the headline on the right goes into the image, I think it blends in a little, but I like the cutouts on the left and the way they overlay each other.

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The Crimson, Paso Robles High School, Volume 85, pg. 12-13

Has really nice colour grading to represent America in a topic about the issues in it

Relevant picture at the bottom that draws your attention towards the middle, and then up towards the text

A timeline on the sides that has an interesting effect (crumpled paper) but also doesn't get in the way of the actual article and matches the colouring of the rest of the page

The Highlander, Carlmont High School, Issue III

pg. 7

I really like the cutout transforming into a graphic illustration, it's really creative and eye-catching.

pg. 18-10

Interesting graphic that utilizes a two-page spread by making a compare/contrast that makes the viewer look at both

pg.20

MUSHROOMS!! I LOVE the mushroom cutout and the graph is really eye-catching. The colours (forest green and orange) compliment each other really nice, especially with the spot of purple on the page. Just a general really nice usage of colours and format.

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Goals for the rest of school year:

Learn how to relax

Take some time to unwind and just...not stress about every little assignment for once in my life

Don't fall behind on work

Relaxation breeds laziness, I don't want to stop working just because I've unwound myself from the firm coil I've become

Learn proper studying methods

Send help I have no clue what I'm doing but it's been working? But I have somehow managed to memorize a lot of things for AP World.

Get better at communication and deadlines

Make sure to follow up with staff writers / editors on their assignments so that all of them meet deadline when need be.

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01-05-23 JEA Fact Checking Slideshow Notes

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01-05-23 JEA Fact Checking Slideshow Notes

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Start with Reporter
- Ask sources for proper spelling
- Notes transcription
- Source numbers
- How do you know that? What don't you know? Find out and verify !
- Outside interview verification
- Check reliable sources

Check with the Copy Editor
- Numbers (addresses, ages, distances, money)
- All math (recalculate to double check, ask someone else to do the same)
- Names, again (check with reporter, verify)
- Titles
- Locations (accurate location name? Is it really the distance described?)
- Make sure URLs aren't expired and accurate, relevant to the story
- Spelling, grammar
- Remove assumptions (if it's not verifiable it's not accurate)
- Double check doubts, tough topics (ask an expert)

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Verify from reporter:
- Proper name spelling, title, their notes, number citations, foreign documentation, reliable sources
Verify from editor:
- Numbers (addresses, ages, distances, money can sometimes be googled [ages depending on person]), phone numbers (call them), maths (ask for a third opinion and recalculate if needed), names (reporter notes and directory), titles (to identify person), locations (if street name is accurate, and if distance is correct), accurate attribution, definitions of words, URLS (if they still work), grammar and spelling, Spellcheck errors, assumptions (NON-VERIFIABLE FACTS SHOULD BE REMOVED, DO NOT INCLUDE SPECULATION), Doubts (check with original reporters), Tough topics that may be hard to verify if you're unsure of (find and ask an expert)

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I feel okay, considering I just required from my brains being melted out of my head. I'm excited to be back at school and to be working, because I had a very unproductive time bedridden at home. I also had a really good time at the meeting and am very thankful for the pizza because, first off, it was delicious, secondly, it meant I didn't have to go through the nightmare of the cafeteria line.

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1. American Writer's guild
2. ? (Buckingham Palace, UK)
3. Sexual assault allegations
4. MET Gala (Some of those outfits were AWFUL especially that Jared Leto realistic cat costume)

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I really messed up last week when I found an incorrect person that I thought was the keynote speaker at the NHSJC '23 convention. It was caught by my Adviser and it was fixed by a quick, easy Google search. I made the error because I hadn't been thorough when I should have been.

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1.  Who are the people in the story (make sure you're talking about the right people, which can be achieved with just a quick google search)
2.  Whether their name is spelled correctly (also googleable)
3. If the facts in the story are aligned with what the interveiwees are saying (can be googled or clarified with an email)
4. If the dates in the story are correct (if this is about, for example, an event, you can google it on their website)
5. If all the locations and details are verifiable, do not speculate, make sure that there are clear sources. Sources include The Internet (if it is a credible source) and the people one interviews

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What went well:
- Beautiful art, infographics

What could've been improved:
- Make sure images are high quality (page 3 photo is slightly pixelated?)
- Make sure sentences are cohesive ("Ronan Nakash, father of sophomore said Leeron Nakash" [page 7])
- Make sure quote box format is proper (quote marks on page 9 are not matching rest of color? intentional?? or??)

What to do next time:
- We should definitely do more special issue type spreads like this in the future

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A 4.0 student beat all the odds. But he can't afford a UC campus
Teresa Watanabe
April 25, 2023
LA Times

In the article "A 4.0 student beat all the odds. But he can't afford a UC campus," by Teresa Watanabe, the focus lies on Jonathan Cornejo, senior at West Adams Prepatory High School. Despite his college acceptances, he chose community college instead, because he could not afford college costs - much like many children across the UC college system. Many students are choosing cheaper or lesser colleges instead due to not wanting to pick financial strain over their well-being. In fact, so many poor students are dropping out of UC, or not going there at all, that students with the Pell grant dropped from 42% in fall of 2012, to 33% in the fall of 2022. UC data has begun to show that far more low-income students are starting to pick community college or CSU over its academic program. The fall in admissions is in line with the general exodus out of California, because rising housing costs and inflation have made it all but impossible or unpleasant to be living in the state. It's also parents who push their kids to not take on the financial loan burden, worried that they and their children would not be able to pay off the loan, even if financial protection only makes them pay 3,000 in tuition a year. To combat all of this, the UC is stepping up its financial aid, raising tuition for undergraduates and setting aside 45% of its revenue for financial aid.

My opinion of the article, "A 4.0 student beat all the odds. But he can't afford a UC campus," is that all of this would be resolved if college tuition was free or severely made more affordable. While he received financial grants that severely decreased the amount he had to pay, he still couldn't afford to cover it. If public upper education in this country didn't have to have a cost, then things would be different. The government made community college free in the LA area, they could make college free elsewhere. Also, student debt has been paused up into this year. It does not need to be a problem, and many poor people are choosing worse futures for themselves just because of the lives they were born into, while rich kids can just nepotism their way into good schools, their silver spoon practically still glued onto their tongue. It's unfair and maddening that good students like Jonathan Cornejo, a 4.0 student, cannot see immediate success because his family can't cover him. The poor people of America deserve better, it's time colleges remove the archaic debt system.

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1. Tucker Carlson
2. Syria  (SUDAN)
3. Joe Biden
4. Flooding / mudslides
5. ?

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Today I feel sort of 6/10, I'm really tired because I was nervous, and I was nervous because I needed to submit an essay. Only the teacher forgot that they had assigned an essay, and didn't know what to do with it. So I'm not sure if I can even pull my grade up, not to mention administration has been no help and actively shut me down as I just tried to find out -- in short, it's a lot, I'm really stressed, and I just want AP Exam Study Season to be over.

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Fox Will Pay $787.5 Million to Settle Defamation Suit
Jeremy W. Peters and Katie Robinson
April 18, 2023
NY Times

In the article "Fox Will Pay $785.5 Million to Settle Defamation Suit" by Jeremy W. Peters and Katie Robinson Fox news was announced to have abruptly agreed to pay almost 800 million dollars to resolve a defamation suit. This suit was filed by Dominion Voting Systems over the network's prominent promotion of misinformation on its platform. This is one of the largest settlements over a defamation case and occured when a courtroom was already packed to begin the trial. The cause for this lawsuit was due to the misinformation FOX had peddled over the 2020 elections, where it accused the Dominion Voting Systems to be fraudulent in favour for Biden. Following the settlement, Dominion revealed correspondance between FOX employees that showed that even their own employees did not believe what they spoke, bashing the Trump administration they had publically backed as "crazy". Had the trial commenced, it would be more harmful for FOX than Dominion, with Rupert Murdoch, owner of FOX own admission that his own deposition was poor.

My opinion of "Fox Will Pay $785.5 Million to Settle Defamation Suit," is incredibly joyous. I'm incredibly happy that not only is such a disgusting company finally able to see some repercussion for the incredible damages to the trust in American Democracy, public health, voting rights and progressive policies it had done. The only thing I'm upset about is the fact that we won't be able to see the company crash and burn even further in a lawsuit that would've, frankly and crudely, been a dumpster-fire for them. Not only has this company upheld bigoted old belief points and spewed racist and vile things out of its showhost's mouths, but it was all a grift for them in order to peddle more money.  FOX is a company that exudes bigotry everytime Laura Inghram or Tucker Carlson - who thankfully is at least one germ off the table -- would come on for the night to poach the fire they set off even more. If anything, they are part of the problem for what happened on Jan. 6, as they've been the ones encouraging conservative viewpoints that quickly nosedived into an alt-right problem. Even the program itself has acknowledged that it is losing viewers because the people they opened the door into extremism thought that FOX wasn't right-leaning enough for the delusions they laid the ground for.

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California public school enrollment continues decline, still reeling from pandemic plunge
Howard Blume
April 4, 2023
LA Times

The article "California public school enrollment continues decline, still reeling form pandemic plunge," discusses the enrollment at California schools that continues to decrease, apparently failing to recover from  the pandemic's drop. However, student enrollment has started to stabilize in seventh and kindergarten rates. Due to these enrollment drops, districts have to lay off workers and stop programs, or even closing altogether. In LAUSD, the state's largest school district has enough money to offer raises to their staff, but due to enrollment, have to decide what schools to shut down. This decline in students falls in line with the decreasing population of California due to the ongoing mass exodus out of the state. Many students and adults have reasons for dropping out or moving away, such as job opportunities to support their families, private enrollment, charter enrollment. These disruptions of schools are having ripple effects on both students and teaches due to the decreasing opportunities.

While reading the article I realised that the issue of attendance is the cause behind many gutted programs and difficulty of hire. Our school has not had a math teacher in over a year, leading many kids to suffer under the lack of tutelage as the online learning platforms fail to educate up to standard. I'm worried about our already-small school, especially since we're under review this year. If we get shut down, what will happen to the newspaper? It would become one of the many casualties of the decreased attendance. Perhaps even I'm part of the issue in California, due to my frequent absences, and yet I'm not sure how to fix my own absences, let alone hypothesize how LAUSD or the state of California can go about fixing that of half a million.

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I'm not one of the juniors taking the standardized tests this year, but I think that this form of testing not only defeats the purpose of knowledge-based examination, but absolutely harms students. To my understanding, multiple choice exams are not even a good way of quizzing students, all that they are is just segments of a memorization test rather than actual skill-based examination. The majority of all previous standardized tests I've ever taken have been predominately multiple choice.

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1. FOX News
2. Clarence Thomas
3. Karen Bass' Los Angeles
4. Elon Musk
5. experienced cardiac arrest
6. Phantom of the Opera

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1. The LA Times story on the teacher union's wage increase mentions all the benefits that are received, not just by the teachers, but by nurses and disability aids. It mentions both the union and the superintendent's side of the story, but focuses more on UTLA and the reasons behind the need for a wage increase.
2. The Sacramento Bee and the LA Daily News both also wrote about the UTLA wage increase.
3. While LA Times had an in-depth report on the effects of the UTLA wage increase, the cause behind it, and members' participation of the SEIU strike - the Sacramento Bee only provides a brief overview of the terms and reasons of the negotiation. Much like the LA Times, LA Daily News went into even further depth about it, describing the length of the contract and the terms of it.

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Students weed out plants from a patch of grass on Saturday, April 15 during school beautification day. The day was organized by the Volunteer for Our Sphere club in order to clean up campus. "The students put in a lot of effort during the cleanup," school climate advocate Magaly Ruiz said, "but the end product made it worth it."

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This week was stressful and tiresome as will the rest of the month be. However, I received some excellent news that made the rest of my life very good!

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1. Tennessee
2. Texas
3. Louisville, Kentucky
4. New York

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We could bring up how good working on the pearl post is for socialization and creating friendships due to the requirement for collaboration and a necessity for teamwork. Moreover, we could stress how good the extracurricular looks on one's college applications, since college is a plan for many achieving students.

Not only this, but the way it teaches a new way of looking at the world, through the journalistic lens. Students can get involved in their communities and write about things they're passionate on, or even write about things they weren't very familiar with, and learn about them in the process. I, for example, had no idea SEIU even existed until I was assigned to report on them.

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Student joyously receives a frog plush during Spring Break

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I'm like a five right now: My week has gotten somehow worse, but spring break is in but three hours, meaning i can go home, hang out with friends, play DND and order myself something nice, hopefully this time my package won't get stolen by my neighbours again. :/

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1. Emmanuel Macron
2. Antony Blinken
3. Stephanie Gregory Clifford "Stormy Daniels"
4. Gweyneth Paltrow
5. Kamala Harris

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I'm a 4: I feel tired and anxious and worried, stressed about the magazine, about personal issues, and school. I'm looking forward to going home and knowing that the week after this one is going to be better, both because a lot of my personal issues will be resolved and that it's spring break, meaning I can just rest and hang out with my friends. A friend and I are sort-of planning to go hang out at his house and watch horrors movies and eat lots of buttery popcorn, so that might be fun if it happens. If not, I just stay at home and play the Sims 4 , which I got back into recently because of the update that happened two weeks ago.

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During the three-day strike I was responsible for writing coverage for D1 and D3 with a co-writer. I went out and got interviews with people at my local LAUSD school. One thing that I could do better was go further out, not just the one right next to me, but it was raining on Tuesday and I don't have a car, so I hadn't wanted to get too soaked on Tuesday, especially since I don't have a working umbrella. On Thursday I should have gone further out and got more varied people, there were very few men at both Valerio picket.