Issuu Digital

issuu Guide:

Digital Publishing forStudent Journalists

Publisher: Flash and Fuse Publication: Issue 2

Your voice is important.

A story can combat ignorance, humanize people, expose corruption and destigmatize taboo topics. With writing, photography and design, you can capture the most hopeful of human endeavors — stories of strength and survival … of overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds … of persevering in the face of extreme challenges.

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Student News: The Eagle Eye (Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School)

YOUR MAG

Arts/Photography: Proof Magazine (Palo Alto High School)

Minor Struggle, Major Payoff

Joc Pederson’s (‘10) journey has landed him on the world stage as he steps up to the plate as a Los Angeles Dodger.

by ZOE BHARGAVA and BRYN CARLSON

pg. 38

Fashion: Unfold Magazine (John Moores University)

Providence Senior High School volume XXI | 2016

VOLUME 5 | ISSUE 6 | APRIL/MAY 2016 FIVE YEAR DOUBLE ISSUE

pg. 21

by MEREDITH KINNAMAN and ALYS OLMSTEAD

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Lifestyle: Your Mag (Emerson College)

Sports: The Viking (Palo Alto High School)

Lit Mag: Roars and Whispers (Providence High School)

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Where We Come In

We believe young journalists are the future in the same way that digital publishing is.

In this student publishing guide, we’ll walk you through everything from designing an editorial calendar and selling advertising to reporting responsibly and defending yourself from censorship. As the media sphere changes, democratization of information allows individuals to be published journalists with the click of a button. That’s why we exist. With issuu, anyone can upload their publication in just minutes to be discoverable by a worldwide audience of readers.

Publisher: Mad SoundsPublication: Issue 15

This guide is designed to walk you through the digital publishing process in four steps:

1. Getting organized.

2. Honing your craft.

3. Learning Journalism 101.

4. Taking it one step further.

Step 1: Organization

The Production Cycle

Creating an Editorial Calendar In order to produce your magazine, you’ll need to do some planning. Start with the deadline for publishing your first issue, and work back from there.

You’ll have to navigate a lot of small deadlines to publish on time. All the little details to cross off your list really add up faster than you think. Procrastination and magazine production don’t mix because there are so many interdependent pieces at play.

On the next several pages, we’ll take you through the basic steps of the production process to help make your magazine a reality.

Download an editable calendar checklist here.

Assembly

7. Layout & Design

// Either have a design team (can be section editors) put together the whole publication, or have each article laid out and designed by its author. // Create your own styles, from fonts to images to layout. Seek inspiration on issuu before beginning this process. // Professionals use Adobe InDesign, but Google Slides and Apple's Pages are cheaper alternatives. // TIP: Employ the principles of design, check out this guide.

8. Final Copy Edits

// After your page design is completely finished, it’s time for the copy editor to take one final look and correct any last silly mistakes or AP Stylebook errors.

9. Final Assembly

// You'll probably be working on individual documents, which makes it daunting when it’s time to compile everything into one big master document. There are two solutions: 1. Have everyone export their documents in the same format and put them

together in a program like Preview or Adobe Acrobat. 2. Use issuu Collaborate, which allows each individual to upload their spread onto an online flatplan, and then download the entire magazine as a single PDF.

11. Promote

// Upload to issuu and share your publication on social, embed it on your website and email it to all your friends and family. Celebrate, do a dance and take a nap.