Journalism is a fun elective to choose when picking out your schedule for the next school year. In this elective you write stories for a website called the Spud. Each month you pick out three separate stories to write about for the school page. For these stories you usually need to find one or more people to interview and take some pictures to post with your story. Usually you’ll need something called tough skin because people are not always going to be the nicest towards you when you’re trying to get an interview or even a picture for your story.

Ryggin Meyer states that “Figuring out what topic I’m going to base my story off of is the most difficult thing for me to do when coming up with a story.” Topics can definitely be hard when writing a story because there is a limited amount of events that goes on every month and there are multiple others who write for the Spud and not only that you need three different story topics for each month.

Mrs. Gustafson  Alliance High Schools English teacher, advises Journalism approves the high schooler’s story ideas and approves them before posting the stories onto the Spuds website.

Not only Ryggin has this problem finding topics though, Bria Steggall has also stated, “Finding something to write about can be hard especially if you’re a little behind and turn in your story idea sheet last.” Though when there seems like there is nothing to write about you can always write a story about your personal interests.

Journalism is a great way to express your feelings and thoughts to the public about certain situations. This class  is also a great way to improve your mind, writing, and social skills. Journalism is a skill building elective that can help you towards the future. The SPUD encourages you very greatly to try this elective out!