Improving a High school newspaper?

Question

I have an assignment to find 10 ways to improve my high school's newspaper, it can be anything from a good story idea to designs. any tips would be appreciated

Answer 1

1. Get more advertisers to increase profit and get color in your paper.

2. Advice Articles

3. Cartoons, Crosswords, Photo of the week

4. An article showing what is happening in the world

5. An article where you ask 10 students ten questions about anything

6. New Movie Releases/ good new television shows

7. Weird news stories

8. Interview a teacher/ new teachers ask them questions

9. Student Spotlight on like a student who is doing something cool

10. Also you can hire a graphic design artist to design formats that you can use over again. They arent expensive but the format can be reused. My school uses a new one every year and they are really cool.

Answer 2

Think of your readers. What would they want to read? Assuming they are the student body, pick things that interest the students. What interests students? Themselves! Write stories about activities and groups around school. Do polls of students: What do you think of ....? Think of what the readers like and what will draw them to your publication. I know I didn't give you any specifics, but I hope this will help anyway.