createBlog Newspaper Application. Options

[*Azarel*]

Um. This should've been up a while ago, but we're lazy kids. Sorry.

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If you do not feel comfortable posting up your application in public, please PM your application to one of our newspaper advisors (uninspiredfae & MarchHare2UrAlice) or to the news account (cBNewsStaff); our editors will review your application together. Please do not submit an application more than once, as we are looking at them - we will get back to you through either AIM or PM if you are hired; if not, we may not reply. Apologies. Do not post in this thread if you are not applying. Thanks for showing interest in cBn.


6 August 2005: cBn is currently not looking for editors, but feel free to apply anyway, as we may look at your editor's application at a later date.

20 August 2005: If we feel your application shows promise but is subpar, we may hire you as an intern. As an intern, you will participate by asking questions and posting your own articles while staff members answer, advise, and guide you on your way to becoming a full staff member!

21 August 2005: Editorial positions once again opened.

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CreateBlog Newspaper Staff Application
All required fields are underlined. If it’s not… we’re probably just curious.
Name:
Age:

Positions Interested In:
If more than one, please rank from 1 (most interested) to 4 (least interested).
_Editor: Revises submitted articles for accuracy, spelling, grammar, and appropriateness.
_Reporter: Finds topics and writes articles on a monthly basis.
_Freelancer: Finds topics and writes articles on occasion; must check in every month to ensure no inactivity.
_Runner: Finds graphics to serve as visuals in various articles by reporters. Also, on occasion, finds humorous photos and writings and provides captions when necessary. Must give credit sources.
xColumnist: Any combination of positions mentioned above; must join cBn under an aforementioned position before being promoted.

Experience:
Please indicate experience – if any, please specify. Remember, your application does not depend upon experience.

Letter of Intent
Why are you interested in becoming a staff member? What makes you deserve this position? What can you bring to the team? If you are considering more than one position, please write a separate letter for each one and specify.

Editor Application
Are you really editor material? Accept or reject these topics, and explain why.
Find the flaws and correct them.
Be supportive of the writer/author.
Contribute ideas instead of just throwing out criticism.
Help the author develop content that will appeal to the audience.
Oversee the layout of each "paper."
Prepare, rewrite and edit copy to improve readability, or supervise others who do this work.

Also, if you are applying for an editorial position, please PM the following mock "article," revised, to one of our news administrators (uninspiredfae or MarchHare2UrAlice) or to the cBNewsStaff account. Please also include a list of the revisions you made to the piece.

If your searching for the perfect xmas gift for any of your frends you shouldn't loose any time in your search cuz if u put off you're christmas shopping until last minute yu may end up waking up on the wensday b4 xmas in a panick thinking bout how you should of started plannin erlier a lack of tyme'll effect how prefect ur gift for you're friend is so dont delay. the easiest thing to do is to visit any on line sight like ebay were you can brows a large selecion for pressent ideas,,, how ever if you our short on cash you kan save munny bye investing yur time in to a home made persent. the importantest thing in the search thought is that whateva your prsent is make shure its from the hart.

Reporter/Freelancer Application
Are you really reporter material? Write a short (quarter page to half page OR 6-8 sentences) story on a topic of your choice on your own. If necessary, find a graphic to go along with the story. Include a title. Give credit for optional graphic. Plagiarizing is looked down upon, and applicants caught doing so will automatically be rejected.

Runner's Application
Are you really runner material? Find at least two intriguing/inspiring photos (NOT from funnysomething.com) and at least two humorous quotes/jokes. They need not match. Write a caption if necessary. Give credit.

Example of humorous bit:
Mortified doesn’t describe how Jane’s parents felt after meeting her boyfriend. He sported vile tattoos, swore, and just had a hostile air about him.
After he left, the mother said, “Dear, he doesn’t seem like a very nice person.”
“Mom,” Jane said, “if he wasn’t very nice, why would he be doing 500 hours of community service?” -American Legion Magazine

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CreateBlog Newspaper Staff Application
All required fields are underlined. If it’s not… we’re probably just curious.
Name: Ariel (the almighty superior) Elyahu
Age: 14

Positions Interested In:
If more than one, please rank from 1 (most interested) to 4 (least interested).
_Editor: Revises submitted articles for accuracy, spelling, grammar, and appropriateness.
_Reporter: Finds topics and writes articles on a monthly basis.
XFreelancer: Finds topics and writes articles on occasion; must check in every month to ensure no inactivity.
_Runner: Finds graphics to serve as visuals in various articles by reporters. Also, on occasion, finds humorous photos and writings and provides captions when necessary. Must give credit sources.
xColumnist: Any combination of positions mentioned above; must join cBn under an aforementioned position before being promoted.

Experience:
Experience. Well, lets see. In elementary school, I started to write articles for my own newspaper, but it soon went out of business. The other third graders didn't have enough patience to join the paper or read it. Sure, this doesn't show much glory, but it shows that I have always been thinking and writing those thoughts down. I have an extreme fascination with philosophy, and I show this in my xanga. While most ordinary xanga posts retain to "i'm bored. byez", I use my xanga to write. I write about the problems in the world and the its virtues. I write about life, its meaning, and fundamentals.

Letter of Intent
I know I will be good for the Createblog Newspaper. How could I possibly know? I know this because I know I am a good writer. I am extremely opinionated, as most of you already know, and thus none of my articles will ever be boring or pointless. I get embarrassed if I write anything short of wonderful. Also, if no one has noticed, I use correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling. I won't be a liability to the newspaper, but an asset.


Reporter/Freelancer Application
Ah, modern day celebrities. We love to watch them on our favorite TV shows and movies. But is it possible that the celebrities we know and love are causing harm in the young society of America?

Of course not. Celebrities are godlike beings, experienced in all areas of any profession, whether it is that of a politician or a critic. Their opinion should always be heard and thoroughly considered.

That, my friends, would seem like the exact opposite of logical. Celebrities are just ordinary people, doing their jobs. A plumber may have the same amount of talent as, lets say, Charlie Sheen, but in a different profession. The words of celebrities shouldn’t matter any more than a normal person’s. Right?

You’re right. They shouldn’t. But they do. Celebrities use their popularity to spread their beliefs, and literally brainwash the common adolescent mind. Just look around you. In every stationary store, you will find at least ten magazines devoted only to celebrities. Everything celebrities say or do gets recorded in these pit-traps for humanity, and people read them. They get addicted to them. They have to know more about why the government is Satan; more about why Bush should burn. They get addicted to the mindless hate-America babble spewed out by the media, simply because they believe the celebrities to act as their characters in reality. And nothing will stop them from believing that.

"Sometimes I'll be walking down the street and I'll hear some American and I'll just go, 'Of course they hate us, of course they can't stand usWe're the most annoying, boisterous creatures in the world.' I mean we come in and we eat mounds of food, and we're like, 'Where's the ketchup for our French fries?' I'm like, 'Shut up.'"
–Renowned Political Critic Kate Hudson
on filming the movie 'Le Divorce' in Paris

The face of America lies in the 90210 zip-code. Botox-less.


Please forgive me, for I have gone over half a page. What can I say, I was on a roll. Perhaps I’ll elaborate on it in the next issue of cBn. ;D