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The DP: Our Student Journalists Want Your Help

Hi everyone!

My name is Pia, and I am the Executive Editor of The DP.

Thank you to everyone who has helped us make this year great so far. I look forward to connecting more this semester and hopefully meeting you one day! As some of you may know, the DP has been working with Mike Wisniewski to organize weekly alumni critiques of our content across DP, Street, UTB, and multimedia departments, which I share at our weekly Editorial Board meetings. I’ve found them really helpful myself when I was a News Editor last year mentoring many new reporters, and our current editors continue to find them valuable.

Based off of recent student feedback, I am hoping to reorganize the program with a new and improved process for our weekly alumni critiques, where each publication (and the multimedia departments) have a consistent set of alumni critiquing the work throughout the semester.

An ideal setup could look like this:

Total alums involved for weekly critiques:

6 alums for DP critiques (2 for News, 2 for Opinion, and 2 for Sports)
2 alums for Street critiques
1-2 alums for UTB critiques
1-2 for company-wide Design and Multimedia critiques

Each of these alums would ideally be responsible for handing back weekly critiques during a semester for their respective publication in advance of weekly Editorial Board meetings, which typically occur on Sunday evenings. This new arrangement would be to make students more comfortable in engaging with specific alums who have expertise in the content they critique (rather than one alum for all kinds of different content) and would hopefully make students feel as if they have a coordinated editorial mentor for their work.

They’re excited about making this adjustment officially happen, and I’d love all the support possible in coordinating this new critique program! A BIG thank you to the alums who have volunteered to critique this semester already! We really appreciate it, and I can’t express that enough.

Please feel free to email me at singhp@thedp.com or Mike at mike.wisniewski83@gmail.com if you’d like to join this team of critiquers.

I look forward to hearing from you!

Kindly,

Pia Singh

Executive Editor