ACTIVITY: The Pontchartrain Picayune:
Producing Your Own Newspaper

One interesting way to educate others about factors affecting the Lake Pontchartrain Basin is to produce a student newspaper. This can be a big job, but it can also be a lot of fun for your class if everyone works hard.

At a newspaper, the work is divided by department, so you and your classmates
will work in teams representing each different division. Here are the
major departments in any newspaper. Feel free to add any others that you might
need.

Newspaper Department	Responsibilities and Duties
Publisher	Head of the newspaper staff; assign newspaper jobs to various teams and individuals
News Department	Led by the Editor-in-Chief; write and illustrate all articles and features; take photos
Business/Advertising Department	Raise money to publish the newspaper; sell newspapers; sell advertising space
Design Department	Put stories, art and photos into proper form for printing; print the paper

For full instructions on producing a paper,

read this!