[TheGentleman]

For all intents and purposes this forum is an Etch-a-Sketch for the news writers.

Journalists (as I will now call you) have the ability to post in this forum and create articles. Here you can draft your "news reports" and after they have been proofed I will move them to the "Latest News" area on the front page of this site.

Welcome!

Updated: Current Specialisation:

It's become apparent to me that having specialisations hasn't really worked thus far with everyone just reporting whatever news is out regardless of whether it was their speciality or not. So for the most part I've removed specialisations... just post whatever is news when you can . In addition I've added a new column called "Commitments" where I mention particular articles you have committed yourself to releasing on a regular basis. You are still expected to meet the minimum of 2 (ideally 4 or more) articles per month.

News Team "Dead Poets Society"	Commitments	Specialty
breadfan
dingobloo
MezjE	Roster Review (Fortnightly*)
Mox	Roster Review (Fortnightly*)
Rogue		NZ News
Switch
TheGentleman (c)	SC2SEA Wrap up (Monthly)	Organisation of News Team
ZizLah

* The Roster Review is a fortnightly report. Either MezjE or Mox may do it just as long as it gets done. Teamwork yay!!

New: News Team Statistics:

+ [2012 - July] +

New: Where to get news:

• Battle.net US: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/
• Battle.net SEA: http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/
• Team Liquid: http://www.teamliquid.net/
• GosuGamers: http://gosugamers.net/starcraft2/
• ESFI World: http://esfiworld.com/news/sc2

The purpose of this forum

• A draft area to play around before your product is polished and ready to go.
• Unsure? Need someone to proofread for you? Thats what this forum is for!
• To prevent duplication - If you want to write an article, I feel its best to "shotgun" it by creating the topic here then posting it then editing in content later. So when other journalist come to the forums they can see what is already being worked on.
• After demonstrating ability writers will be given direct news posting permission, but feel free to continue to use this forum for draft purposes.

Aim of news posts

• To bring news to people quickly in a concise, interesting and well written way.
• Each news post should take less than 15 mins to do.
• It should be a concise wrap up that has links to sources and more information.
• Much like the WCG post i did here http://www.sc2sea.com/showthread.php?t=5352
• Most of the time there is no need for battle reports or detailed analysis.
• People want to read information fast, and also pretty pictures help enhance the reading experience, so use at least one (and credit appropriately)!

DRAFT and READY messages:

PLEASE READ THIS!!

I would like to request that all members of this society put the word "DRAFT" at the top of all articles they are working on and I will ignore these until you change the word to "READY" indicating that they have been completed. These articles will subsequently be proofed for spelling errors, accurate links, references, etcetera etcetera before being moved to the "Latest News" forum where your work will be admired by all. Thanks

Formatting:

• Guide formating your posts: http://www.sc2sea.com/showthread.php?t=2720

Moved: Team Meetings:

+ [show] +

Team Meeting 1.
When: 21st of August 2012 at 8:00PM AEST.
Location: Skype.
Duration: 31 minutes and 47 seconds.
Audio: OGG (26.9MB) and MP3 (29.1MB) (Available upon request).

+ [Also a YouTube link for Audio:] +

+ [Meeting Minutes] +

Participants:

• breadfan
• dingobloo
• Loach
• MezjE
• Mox
• nirvAnA
• Rogue
• TheGentleman

Topics discussed:

• Performance.
• Autonomy and expectations.
• TheGentleman's StarCraft news team analogy.
• Article types and examples.

Performance:

• Not everyone is reaching the bare minimum requirements.
• Minimum requirements are at least 2 articles a month.
• Consequences do exist for those not holding their weight the worst of which would be exclusion from the news team.
• Ideally 1 article a week per person resulting in about 7 articles a week.
• Keep me informed. The SC2SEA News Team is a commitment and it is your responsibility to ensure that you're doing what is expected of you. Occasionally life gets in the way and it cannot always be helped but if I know that you're preoccupied then the team is not waiting on you to do something that inevitably won't end up getting done.

Autonomy:

• Ideally you should all be able to work on your own accord. TheGentleman should not need to specifically assign individual news items to each member of the team. Part of your job is to keep an eye on the news yourself and report what you see, especially if it is your speciality.
• Getting the news on SC2SEA while it is still new news is important.
• Don't feel limited to your speciality. Most of the specialities cross over in one way or another for example the ACL is not only SEA News but also Tournament news so if you see news pop up and no one is covering it feel free to cover it yourself.
• Keep an eye on the dead poets society forum for topics which people have already claimed.
• Occasionally people from outside of the news team who are unaware of the dead poets society forum will post news and even if you have claimed the topic there's not much you can do about that.

Link at 8:55: http://www.sc2sea.com/showthread.php?t=5364 (welcome thread for old specialities).

News Team "Dead Poets Society"	Specialty
breadfan	Tournaments.
dingobloo	SEA News (also Tournaments)
Loach	World News (also Tournaments)
MezjE	Transfers.
Mox	SEA Pros and Profiling.
Rogue	NZ News.
TheGentleman (c)	All, Recaps, Organisation.

TheGentleman's StarCraft news team analogy:

"You can think of me as an overloard and you guys as my zerglings. I won't be attacking so I don't expect you guys to do that but I'm more than happy to sac myself scouting so I do expect you to do that. Zerglings can attack though so if you want to go well and truly beyond what I expect then feel free to go for your life" - TheGentleman

Article types and examples:

• 3 types of articles; long, medium and small.
• Example of a long article: SC2SEA Wrap Up or a review of a major tournament. Long articles generally take a while to create due to editing, research and their lengthy size.
• Long articles are generally writing team territory.
• Because our goal is to release the news as soon as possible we're aiming for medium and small articles.
• Medium articles should take roughly 15 minutes to make.
• Small articles should take around 5 minutes to make.
• Gosu Gamers (http://www.gosugamers.net/starcraft2/) and Team Liquid (http://www.teamliquid.net/) are excellent sources of world news. Also keep an eye on StarCraft 2's main website as well (http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/ and http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/).

Link at 22:03: http://www.sc2sea.com/showthread.php?t=5685 (small article example).
Link at 24:23: http://www.sc2sea.com/showthread.php?t=5680 (medium article example).

• Small articles are generally just 1 paragraph and a quote or link to an external source where people can read more about it.
• Medium articles are generally 3 or so paragraphs long have images, links, player flags and race icons. A bit more formatting than a small article but a lot less than a long article.

Questions:

Q: Is there an easy way to get to the Dead Poets Society forum?
A: Bookmark it (Since the meeting there is now a link under the SC2SEA search tool to the forum visible only by News Team members).

Thanks were had