Get Involved! Submission Info for articles and images

Submission INFO

Send submissions to StudentVoice@sl.on.ca:

Get Involved! Get the info to help you make a contribution to Student Voice! Contributing to Student Voice is great experience whether you are writing an article, conducting an interview with a professional from the community, or reviewing media...

Our Key Dates are:

Reservation Deadline: The 1st of every month to reserve some space for your idea or advertising.
Copy Deadline: The 10th of every month to submit your copy and images. Then the paper is distributed around the 1st of the next month and circulates for the month. We don't run issues from May to August.

Our submission rules are:

Article files must be named appropriately and have no spaces – File name should be the same as the title of the article. Please don’t send an article called “nomad article”. Name the file what it is. If it is an article about Fitness Tips – call the file “fitnessTips.doc”
Articles must be titled
Articles must have a by line (writer) entered right under the title.

Photos and graphics must be named appropriately and have no spaces. Don’t leave a picture with a filename like “image00010.jpg”. If it is a picture of Johnny Rotten and the Sex Pistols, then name the file “JohnnyRottenandtheSexPistols.jpg”. If there is more than one picture or image just ad 01, 02, 03 and so on at the end of the file. For example:
JohnnyRottenandtheSexPistols01.jpg, JohnnyRottenandtheSexPistols02.jpg, JohnnyRottenandtheSexPistols03.jpg

Pictures taken should have a clear explanation of what they are and who is in them and you should obviously get permission to publish them – (We have consent and release forms in the Nomad studio for you to take to get signed)

You can add up to 50 characters in a file name or you can make a separate word document that describes the pictures – which ever you think is more appropriate.
There must be a Description of any Photos - Who, Where, etc.
There must be a Description of any Images, logos, or clip art, charts or graphics so that we know what to put as a descriptor under any image or graphic

The Managing Editor can help you develop your idea! Just email StudentVoice@sl.on.ca for ideas, help or feedback.

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Job Opportunity - We're Hiring!

Managing Editor

for Campus news – Student Voice

Closing Date: December 17, 2010

Managing Editor of Student Voice news is an exciting opportunity to gain leadership and publishing skills. This opportunity is an honorarium role compensating the candidate(s) for successful completion of issues and maintaining the news website for the academic year 2011 to 2012.

*Some initial volunteer assistance will be required to be eligible for this opportunity.

Expected Starting Date and Info: Training for this role will take place in January, February, and March 2011. The successful candidate will begin assuming a volunteer assistant role for February and March Issues and would then assume the Managing Editor role for April Issue (beginning March 01, 2011). Commencing in August the successful candidate will return to the Student Association to become the Managing Editor for the Academic year 2011-12.

Duties:

· Report to Student Association Executive

· Manage a loose team of student volunteers

· Work with Student Association Layout and technical production editor with direction of issues, placement of content, image management and folder/technical procedures

· Direct content for issue and web news

· Help volunteers create, develop and act on leads, stories, events and articles

· Work with school departments to develop relevant and timely content

· Submit at least one article per issue

· Update the Student Voice news portion of website using web content management software

· Meet with volunteer students to arrange content itinerary

· Edit submissions

· Possible advertising contacts and management

· Possible research to check article validity

· Report on income and expenses

· Book at least 4 hours of Student Voice Studio (Studio V) time per week and post hours

Qualifications:

· Leadership experience an asset

· Teamwork experience an asset

· Proficient use of a computer and software comfort and asset

· Must be a student of SLC for the 2011 academic year

Submit your Resume to StudentVoice@sl.on.ca or to the Student Association (SA) Front Desk c/o Student Voice News, Attention to Carm Hunter, Managing Editor.

Posting is found electronically at : StudentVoice.ca – News Section

http://www.studentvoice.ca/index.cfm/student-voice/student-voice-news/job-opportunity-were-hiring-managing-editor-for-campus-news/