Editorial: Welcoming a new year with a new design

Online Editor-in-Chief Tahra Hunter and Editor-in-Chief Rebekah Spector write about their expectations for the redesign of the newspaper.
Online Editor-in-Chief Tahra Hunter and Editor-in-Chief Rebekah Spector write about their expectations for the redesign of the newspaper.

The 2016-2017 publication year for The Pearl Post marks a beginning of a new

era for the paper.

With new staff members, photographers and editors, the Pearl Post team has already started the new year on a high mark.

As for the paper as a whole, we are working extra hard to keep our publication up to par with award winning papers around the country. This being said, we’ve changed our layout and style of the very newspaper you are holding.

It’s our goal as the editorial board to work diligently to publish every issue with very little errors and many visuals to make reading the paper more enjoyable.

For us, this means that we need to be strict with our deadlines and set a basic uniform layout for our pages.

Who knows, maybe this year The Pearl Post will be up for a Pacemaker award.

With very few returning photographers and writers, the new staff has jumped into their new positions and have shown enthusiasm for doing multiple jobs that are crucial to the integrity of the paper. We are working hard to share the stories they write and are important to the students and the community around us.

We are hopeful that by the end of the semester we will be an entirely new publication that will appeal to our readers not only at Daniel Pearl Magnet High School but also to readers in other schools around the country. Our goal is to be the publication that others look to as reference.

For our website, we hope to continue updating it at least three times a week. With exclusive content, interactive polls, well-thought-out videos and telling photographs, our goal is to get more traffic directed to the website.

We hope that the website will be nominated for another Pacemaker, like it was last year.

With more online content there will be more social media coverage, so be sure to follow @ThePearlPost on social media.

Enormous struggles are certainly heading our way but with our new and talented staff we, as a team, will overcome these obstacles together and achieve our goals we set for ourselves and more.