Letter from the FOCUS Editors-in-Chief

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by Julia Barr ’15 and Jessica Miller ’15

This spring, FOCUS editors Emilia Weinberg and Peter Dissinger approached the Middle School newspaper, The Phoenix Inquirer, about bringing our two school newspapers together. What began as a workshop coordinated by our soon-departing FOCUS editors resulted in this collaborative issue, created by the staff of both newspapers. More important and memorable for us than the product of this collaboration, however, is the experience and knowledge gained from having worked together. The process of putting together this issue was a learning experience for both middle schoolers and high schoolers in working together as a team, seeing how the other’s newspaper is run, and gaining knowledge and experience to apply to their own newspapers in the future. For us as the new editor-in-chiefs of FOCUS, this was also our first try at publishing an issue, and we are so glad that we were able to share this experience with the talented, creative writers of The Phoenix Inquirer.

Many thanks to Peter and Emilia for initiating this collaboration, Ms. Kenealy for all of her enthusiasm and guidance throughout the process, and all who participated in writing and putting together this issue. We hope that this collaborative issue is just the start of a long-term connection and friendship between these two newspapers. We look forward to future opportunities to work together, as well as seeing the amazing talents of the middle schoolers in their future projects–especially as writers come to the high school!

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