Premier issue of "Pioneer" magazine due out next Thursday
Laura Day
Issue date: 12/1/05 Section: News
This fall semester, the students in Sacred Heart University's Newspaper Publication class decided to publish a magazine. This magazine, called "Pioneer", is the first student-run magazine circulated throughout the school.
The Spectrum advisor Dr. Debbie Danowski teaches the Newspaper Publication class, MS370. However, the magazine is essentially created for students, by students, because they wanted to depart from the usual insert that the course produces.
"Pioneer" editor-in-chief Kayla O'Brien, senior, Ossining, N.Y., said, "We wanted to create a publication unlike any others that we've done in the past."
Dr. Danowski has also taught a Magazine Publication class in which each student created his or her own magazine idea and worked individually to put it together. Those issues were never published and produced for such a large audience, and this is what separates "Pioneer" from other publications at SHU.
The semester's work is to be released on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005. Although O'Brien has much of her experience working as Associate Editor of the Spectrum, she says that she wanted to publish "something in addition to the Spectrum, without the newspaper feel."
In addition to O'Brien's senior project, which is also a magazine, she has worked with Dr. Danowski in Magazine Publication last spring and currently interns for Fairfield County Homes Magazine. The current issue includes her first published articles and inclusion to the masthead. "It's exciting," she said. "This entire experience has assured me that this is the field I want to be in."
This semester's worth of energy has gone into one big project that will hopefully reach out to each and every student. In past inserts, there has just been one focused theme, so a variety of topics makes "Pioneer" a completely new and experimental project.
Sections of "Pioneer" include Mind and Body, Entertainment, Style, Sports, and Relationships. The articles are aimed at college-aged students, and some are particularly directed to SHU students.
The Spectrum advisor Dr. Debbie Danowski teaches the Newspaper Publication class, MS370. However, the magazine is essentially created for students, by students, because they wanted to depart from the usual insert that the course produces.
"Pioneer" editor-in-chief Kayla O'Brien, senior, Ossining, N.Y., said, "We wanted to create a publication unlike any others that we've done in the past."
Dr. Danowski has also taught a Magazine Publication class in which each student created his or her own magazine idea and worked individually to put it together. Those issues were never published and produced for such a large audience, and this is what separates "Pioneer" from other publications at SHU.
The semester's work is to be released on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005. Although O'Brien has much of her experience working as Associate Editor of the Spectrum, she says that she wanted to publish "something in addition to the Spectrum, without the newspaper feel."
In addition to O'Brien's senior project, which is also a magazine, she has worked with Dr. Danowski in Magazine Publication last spring and currently interns for Fairfield County Homes Magazine. The current issue includes her first published articles and inclusion to the masthead. "It's exciting," she said. "This entire experience has assured me that this is the field I want to be in."
This semester's worth of energy has gone into one big project that will hopefully reach out to each and every student. In past inserts, there has just been one focused theme, so a variety of topics makes "Pioneer" a completely new and experimental project.
Sections of "Pioneer" include Mind and Body, Entertainment, Style, Sports, and Relationships. The articles are aimed at college-aged students, and some are particularly directed to SHU students.