Trip to East Oregonian

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On Wednesday, October 29th the kids of the publication's class in Sunridge Middle School went on a field trip to the East Oregonian. Publications is an extracurricular class where they design the yearbook and have a website where they put their own articles. The eighth graders learned about the process they have to go through to make over 7000 newspapers in 15 minutes and 30,000 in a day total. In the middle of the tour the kids went and sat in a room and asked any questions they wanted to.

Michael Brooks explains  what E.J. Harris,the photographer, had to say about how to take a good picture. E.J. said, “The way to take a good picture is that you can always use the rule of thirds. The rule of thirds is a great way to use in order to get the best picture you can.” In addition E.J. said that, “You want to get the most in the picture you can to catch the reader’s eye and get close to someone if you really have to." Also they learned that if they want a good article they have to get out into the community and go talk to different kinds of people.  

Daniel Wattenburger filled us in with some great reporting tips. ”Is it hard to get a new interesting story, and how often is their mistakes in the newspaper?” one of the students asked “Everyday there will be new, different, interesting stories to tell and there will always be mistakes", he said.
“What was the highlight of this amazing East Oregonian field trip?”
“The highlight of the field trip is that we got to ask any questions we wanted to and how they gave us tips to be a better reporter", Makenzie Mcleod said. In the end the kids learned a lot of things about how to be a good reporter, editor, and photographer.