Muse Portfolio
Editing, Leadership, and Teambuilding
Here you will find my work as a leader and editor.
Non-Coverage Managing Editor
One of my responsibilities as a managing editor is keeping track of participation hours. For each meeting or work night that a staffer attends, I and the other MEs keep track of attendance and tabulate it for a grade. Editors are required 10 hours a month, and staffers 5. This helps ensure that staffers attend meetings and stay where needed for all staff reminders, feedback, critiques, and proofing.
This is an example of my task grading as a managing editor on my publication. We have a two-week task cycle in which staffers are graded on the number of tasks they complete on time divided by the number of tasks that they were assigned. I like to meet with editors to get updates on their staffers during the task cycle. Additionally, I meet with staffers who don't receive full credit to explain why their grade is the way it is.
This is a small segment of a weekly meeting agenda with the editors-in-chief and managing editors. As my staff is split across the class periods, this time gives us
Social Media Editor
Editing
As a social media editor, I was the first draft of edits for all social media posts. This was a swim team spotlight for Instagram that I edited. For this particular post, my main first draft edit was to cut it down to make it more suitable for Instagram.
Leadership
Aside from editing, as a social media editor, I also created schedules to assign social media posts with deadlines to each staffer. This spreadsheet helps keep our content in rotation and keep staffer accountable for their individual assignments and tasks.
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