Spartan Daily names new executives for fall
Samie Hartley
Issue date: 5/15/07 Section: News
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In August, Spivey, a junior majoring in journalism, will take the reins of the Spartan Daily as executive editor while Jones, a junior majoring in advertising, will ascend to the position of advertising director.
Richard Craig, co-faculty advisor for the Spartan Daily, said Spivey will make a good executive editor.
"She's very conscientious," Craig said. "She cares greatly about journalism and the Daily in particular … . I think she'll do a great job."
Spivey said she is looking forward to making some changes to the newspaper.
"We're really excited about trying new things - new features - and breathing new life into a paper that has been around for more than 70 years," Spivey said.
One of the changes Spivey said she plans to make is to expand the use of multimedia on the Spartan Daily Web site. She said with the help of four online editors, she hopes to add visual slideshows, audio and video to the Web site.
Kyle Hansen, a senior majoring in journalism and an incoming online editor, said he wants to make the Spartan Daily as "interactive as possible and to make things more fun" by adding blogs and podcasts to the site.
Another change Spivey plans to make in the fall is shifting the focus of the arts and entertainment page from reviews to student life features. The "student life" page will have stories about students, activities and "fun things going on around campus" to show "a slice of campus life."
Spivey's "ambitious" vision for the fall semester also includes several special "pull-out sections." She said she would like to do a back-to-school section that will serve as a reference guide for new students. The section would feature stories about services on campus, places to eat and other keys to "surviving" at SJSU.
Jones, the incoming advertising director, said she is working with Spivey to put the pull-out sections together by figuring out how to price the advertisements for the special inserts.
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