With less than a month until March, the Gazette will soon be hiring next year’s editorial board.
There’s still time left for you to become eligible for one of these positions if you aren’t already. If you’re interested in determining the direction of your campus media, read on!
What editor positions are available?
Hiring will soon begin for four section editor positions: Arts Editor, News Editor, Opinions Editor and Sports Editor. Section editors are responsible for gathering content each week, determining the editorial direction of their section and managing their section’s volunteers.
There’s the position of Online Editor – determine the Gazette’s social media strategies, post stories online each week and help console us when our website is broken.
We’ll need a Copy Editor. Are you keen on spelling and grammar? Do you have a flair for the ethical and a good eye for libel? Consider contributing your edits to every Gazette story, every week!
Finally, we’ll be hiring an Editor-in-chief. Consider this role if you want to take one class per semester and dedicate the rest of your time to editing stories; managing a staff of 12; determining the editorial direction of the paper in consultation with staff; ensuring the organization adheres to its constitution and code of ethics; answering complaints; telling your professors you’re sorry for the late assignments; writing stories; working with the Business Manager and Advertising Manager to ensure the newspaper is financially stable; and representing the paper at society events, in the case of any litigation or when mainstream media outlets want a perspective on what’s happening at Dal.
The process:
This March, we’ll hold a General Meeting to determine our hiring board. If you’re a member of the Dalhousie Student Union and you show up, you can nominate yourself to be on the board. When we have a date for this meeting, we’ll put a notice in print and online. Applications will soon open for all of our editor positions, and these will be found at Dalgazette.com/hiring. For more information on our hiring processes, check out our constitution at our page on Tiger Society.
Who is eligible?
If you’ve had five or more total stories, photographs, comics or creative submissions published within our pages this year, or ten or more pieces of content published by us ever, you’re eligible to be an editor of the Gazette.
If you don’t meet that criteria, don’t worry! Email editor@dalgazette.com to see how you can get involved, or show up to a contributor meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Monday. There’s still time to get five pieces published with us before we start hiring. The table below, Contributors for Volume 147, shows the contribution count of everyone who has been published by the Gazette this year.
If your name says “5+” next to it, you could be an editor next year. If your number is less than five or your name’s not on the list, you still have time to change that.
Keep in mind, this table does not include every contributor who has submitted more than ten pieces total within all history, and you’re eligible to be an editor if you meet this criteria. (Yes, that means if you’re reading this and you haven’t submitted to the Gazette since you submitted ten political rants in 1970, you’re eligible!)
The only exception to these rules is for the position of Editor-in-chief. For this position, you must have held an editor position with the Gazette within the last three volumes. See the chart below, “Eligible Editors-in-chief for Volume 148,” to see if you’re eligible.
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