LETTER FROM THE KINGSMAN EDITOR -- Yelena Mandenberg

 

Welcome back to school, Brooklyn College students. I know that the first month of school is always the hardest, having to readjust your schedules and re-learning how to cope with the amount of assign­ments most of you inevitably have. I am the new Editor-in-Chief of the Kings­man newspaper, and my staff and I have been working very hard these last few weeks to make sure you as students have a campus newspaper that provides articles that are of interest to you, your education, and your college experience.

I joined the Kings­man last year as the Associate Editor. My job was to work with new writers and help them develop stories and their own writ­ing styles. We had quite a few stories that were exclusive to the Kingsman last year, and this year we hope to continue the pattern of being a hard-hitting qual­ity newspaper.

Writing for the Kingsman and work­ing with writers has been an amazing experience. Journal­ism, to me at least, is a field that will force you to become as close as you ever will be to the spirit of the world. Journal­ists, even those who are just students at Brooklyn College, are also detectives, historians, inter­viewers, and ana­lysts.

Journalism is one of those fields that can take you wher­ever you want to go, and can even help lead you into a dif­ferent career path. It can be intimidat­ing at first, but ask anyone who has ever written for the news­paper, it is one of the most fun and worth­while experiences to have, especially in college.

    With that being said, I encourage all of you who are even the slightest bit interested to join the Kingsman. We need students who are eager to write for us. We also need photographers and copyeditors.

    Being a part of the newspaper really gets you involved with Brooklyn Col­lege and throws you into the atmosphere.

    Plus, being pub­lished in a real news­paper is something that will look amaz­ing on your resume, and when you can come in with a port­folio of published clips, you are sure to impress people no matter what industry you wind up work­ing in.

    If you or someone you know is inter­ested in joining the Kingsman please e-mail thekingsman­newspaper@gmail.com, or stop by our office in 118 Roos­evelt.

    Additionally, I would really love to see student in­volvement with the newspaper, so even if you find yourself too busy to write for us this semester, do not be shy to pass on story tips and ideas, comments, sugges­tions, and especially feedback. You can e-mail your comments to us, or drop them in our mailbox next to our office. I really hope to see some of you get involved or sending in feedback.

    In turn, my staff and I will continue to provide you with the Brooklyn Col­lege news you want to know and need to know.

    Thank you for picking up and read­ing this week’s issue of the Kingsman, and make sure to pick up a copy every Monday.

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