By Chelsea Titus
Round Table editor

On Oct. 1, the Middletown High School media site, mhsroundtable.com, clicked off a new start for the school year.

New editor-in-chiefs, section editors, managers, and reporters have stepped up to the keyboard and are producing phenomenal pieces of work.

Rookie reporters have been completing daily assignments to learn how to write stories, shoot photography, and create videos. If the beginner students did not learn these basic skills, how else would the Round Table continue its award-winning streak? Learning these simple tasks not only help prepare the reporters, but teach them how to produce in a newsroom.

Within a month of school, the MHS Roundtable media has already competed in the Great Frederick Fair, produced its first homecoming edition of the RT Magazine, and submitted online articles – this is extraordinary for a high school journalism class.

The homecoming magazine was a success. All credit goes to the students who asked local and some corporate businesses to advertise online, broadcast, or print. As a result, it was distributed to students and staff around MHS, sent to local businesses, and was passed around to parents at one of the Knight’s varsity football games.

The RT magazine took the students’ hours during and after school to finish a complete product which was a hit. Being able to accomplish so much in such a little amount of time takes a lot of hard work and dedication.

Section editors aim to publish at least one to two stories per week. Keeping the website updated for followers to view almost daily.

During class, students have less than 90 minutes to produce whichever story he or she is working on. It’s a challenge to be able to write, interview, and edit under a time limit.

The RT also attributes its digital communications technology or broadcast pieces and publishes videos made from the students.

Online broadcast pieces are news from around MHS or from the local community. Students use their own digital cameras or the school’s flip cameras to produce the material. In doing so, it really shows how the students use outside-of-school materials to be able to construct such great pieces.