You'll be juggling updating work on these sections with additional reporting, packaging, multimedia, research and photo assignments.

On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, we'll talk early in the day about story, link, photo and graphic choices for the home page and other sections.

I'll be helping you with basic PhotoShop--sizing and cropping pictures--and with building tables for charts.

I'll also try to help you with other tools and software in the lab--and occasionally bring in professional or academic guests to give us additional tips and advice.

Most importantly, I'll be helping you to make sense of your stories--the reporting, writing and editing of them. This is, after all, a newsmagazine, and your primary jobs here are reporting and editing.

ONE KEY POINT: No one but me should be saving stories, section fronts or the home page onto the L drive--which publishes our pages live onto the Web. You will normally work on stories in the H drive, and copy them to X when you're ready for me to edit them. 

You may, however, move photos and graphics and audio clips onto the L drive, after you've cropped and sized or otherwise edited them. And you may also move video clips from the broadcast students to the V drive, the live streaming video server.

I'll elaborate on this and explain our publishing system during the early days of the bureau.

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