The New ThisNewsTimes
The new school year is well into its third week now. All the students have new teachers, new classes, new classmates, new experiences. The TNT is also going through a lot of changes this year. If you’re not totally oblivious (or new to the school) you probably noticed the changes in layout and rubrics. This year, working on the TNT is offered as an extra-curricular activity and everyone from 7th through 12th grade can participate. We meet every Wednesday during lunch break at 1pm in the library. We would love some enthusiastic students who are interested in writing, photography, interviewing, and internet design to come join the small group of TNT members on the comfortable, cosy coutches hidden by books and shelves, desperately looking for major stories.
What exactly do student newspaper members do, you may ask yourselves. Well, first of all, we think about what interests the people at our school, and what they need to know about. Then we each chose an exciting topic to investigate. We go out on a safari through the jungle of media and information - make interviews, read, listen, search, speak, ask, collect evidence, take loads of pictures – and then we put what we found into an interesting article and upload it for the ThIS community to read.
Now, this whole process is really exciting, even if it might remind you of boring, annoying research papers that you have to write in ESL class. But the difference is, there are less restrictions! You write for your friends, class mates and school mates. You can try different kinds of articles, like a news article (short, informative, practical), or a commentary, where you can express YOUR own opinion, or even a reportage where the investigation process can truly resemble an adventure-hike. Writing for the student news paper is not like writing in your English class. You can be creative, show your personality, and write in any language.
We need YOUR input. Creativity, motivation, opinion and individuality is what makes a newspaper interesting and full of diversity. Just swing by the library on Wednesdays during lunch break or send us your articles, comments and questions via e-mail to tntwebmaster@ymail.com. We are looking forward to interacting with you!
Lisa Hartmann & Alexander Bayer
