I'm an Editor!!

So I was recently offered the position of the Arts and Entertainment Editor position this upcoming Fall semester. Words cannot express my feelings when I learned of this wonderful opportunity. I've had my eye on this position ever since I started writing for the BYU-Idaho campus newspaper, Scroll, the website for it is http://www.byui.edu/scroll. I'd hoped to get it, but wasn't sure if I was qualified. But they offered it, so I'm ready for the challenge.



The editor position is a bit different than the staff position. While on the staff, I wrote weekly stories. (Last week I had 4 articles in the paper... that was a lot of work.) I love going out and meeting new people, asking them why they do what they do and finding a great story out of what could seem like a boring event/idea. The editor decides what he/she wants in their section, assigns the stories to their staffmembers, and designs the page layouts. I did some of that as an assistant editor last semester but I was just doing what my editor told me to do. Now I'm gonna be one of the bosses. Scary!



But I am so excited for this job! I hope that I do well and make it a fun, well-rounded section. If you have any ideas of what you'd like to see in this section of a newspaper, I am definitely up for advice. I'm planning on doing some movie reviews. A few students mentioned that they liked that. But I'm still working on the rest of the section. This next semester is going to be a great educational opportunity and I plan on learning as much as I can from it.