Savannah Athy-Sedbrook | STUDENT JOURNALIST
Editing, Leadership & Team Building
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As a reporter, I have always found Savannah to be professional and thorough. She is diligent in reporting accurate facts. She is well mannered and has an incredible way of dealing with people. I have only met a few students who are as unassuming and at the same time assertive and a natural leader as she is."
- Augusta High School Principal Rick Rivera
Savannah provides a bright future to the journalism world with her attention to detail. She works hard and you see that in her ability to tell the story within the story. She has raised the bar for journalism at Augusta High."
- Sports Editor for Butler County Times Gazette Charles Chaney
Savannah is always a smiling face and an inspiration to work with. She fills her schedule with everything she can and always gets the job done 100 percent. She is so easy to work with and always has the best ideas. She is a blessing to the journalism world."
- Senior Haley Smith, Editor-in-Chief of the Wings Yearbook staff
Savannah is a great leader, especially when it comes to being the Editor-in-Chief of our newspaper staff. She has always helped me when I needed it, I never feel like I am lost when I am on staff, and that is mainly because Savannah has done a great job organizing our duties."
- Senior Chadd Brown, 3rd year staff member
Savannah is not only a wonderful leader, but she is also a challenger. She knows exactly how to push you just the right way until you get better. She never fails to challenge herself. Far, far beyond from the average mark, is an inspiration named Savannah."
- Senior Haley Jeter, 2nd year staff member
Savannah is a hard working, responsible Editor. She works hard while also keeping everyone else caught up and knowledgable."
- Sophomore Hayden Blair, 1st year staff member
Every cycle, I have several types of content to edit. When I am a Crew Editor, this means stories, photo galleries, infographics and other types of coverage that are involved with a package. On the other hand, as the On-Deck Editor, I edit tweets, instagram posts, photo posts and videos. All of these types of editing require different styles and techniques.
Looking to crystals: trend guides teens - Edits
Art Photo Gallery- Edits
Fine arts lack males - self-edits
By far, out of all the stories I have ever written, if I were to redo a single one, it would be this one. As a freshman, I saw the lack of involvement in fine arts when it came to male students and wanted to do something about it. Newspaper was my outlet, so I decided to write what I hoped would be a powerful story that could inflict change. This was not the case. Even the moment after I clicked publish on this story, I knew I could have done better with it.
First of all, I wish I had branched out more with the people I talked to and found some other guys who loved fine arts. It would have added a lot of depth to the story if I had someone talking about band, choir or art being a safe place where they could express themselves. I also could have talked to a few people about the reasons they do not participate in fine arts; maybe it was not for the reasons I thought originally.
Second, a section of the story approaches the topic of males not participating in fine arts due to stereotypes of homophobia. While I do believe it was important to mention this, I could have gone about it in a better way. I should have combined Mr. McNutt's quotes so he was the one bringing the stigmatism to the story, I did not need to have the transition in between because it makes that point I was trying to make feel repetitive and weak.
Lastly, one of the biggest aspects I would have changed is the picture. It is so boring and hard to read. I know I had access to pictures of band and choir, so I have no idea what I was thinking when I created that graph. Preferably, I would have used a picture of the show choir at Augusta, Take Two, and written a caption that included a quote from one of the males in the class talking about their experience.
Overall, if I was to rewrite this story now, it would be much more powerful than it is now. I am my toughest critic, and I understand my skill level now versus then is night and day. My most prominent regret about this story is that I did not wait until later in my journalism career to write it.