{"id":16525,"date":"2020-11-03T20:17:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T04:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=16525"},"modified":"2020-12-03T21:19:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T05:19:43","slug":"midterm-letter-from-the-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/midterm-letter-from-the-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Midterm letter from the Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>A midterm look at the changes the Howl has made since issue one<\/em><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Co<\/strong>r<strong>a McClain<\/strong> | Editor-In-Chief <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well Western, we\u2019ve made it halfway through the term and now stand on the precipice of a monumental election. As a way to manage my staff, I conduct what we call \u201cmidterm reviews,\u201d where I sit down with each member of staff and talk about their progress so far, things that have changed and need to change. Think of this letter as a midterm review for The Western Howl, to you, our most valued readers.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More than most years, beginning this term and finding a routine has been difficult. Here at the Howl in particular, we have made some changes from what I had laid out for you in \u201cThe Western Howl: Vol. 3 Issue 1.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rather than reduce our content through only designing bi-weekly, the Howl staff have adjusted to continue designing each issue through the year. We are very happy with this, as we can continue to bring to Western the feeling of a produced, printed paper in an online format.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These designed weekly issues can be seen on the right side-bar of the main page of our website and like always, the stories will still be uploaded online on the website.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With administration announcing that winter term will have similar modality to fall, the Howl will be distributing just as it has this term \u2014 we once again will not be printing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While IFC is still in deliberation and has not yet made their preliminary decisions, it is looking like our operating budget will not change much from fall. We will most likely be operating at the same capacity as we are now. This means we will only have the News, Entertainment and Lifestyle editor sections. Along with those, we will unfortunately not be able to meet one of our goals to expand to a 12 page paper by 2021, and continue to produce an 8 page paper into the new year. While I wish we could give you more content, Western, I hope that our current reporting is up to your standards.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thank you, Western, for your continued support through these difficult weeks. Being able to serve this community and keep everyone informed makes all of this difficulty worth it. The Howl staff and I, appreciate you, Western; without you, our work would be meaningless.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once again, thank you Western, for making us at the Howl feel like we aren\u2019t alone.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"4220\" height=\"82\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line.png 4220w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-300x6.png 300w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1024x20.png 1024w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-768x15.png 768w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1536x30.png 1536w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-2048x40.png 2048w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1080x21.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4220px) 100vw, 4220px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact the author at <a href=\"mailto:howleditor@wou.edu\">howleditor@wou.edu <\/a><\/span><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A midterm look at the changes the Howl has made since issue one<\/p>\n<p>Cora McClain | Editor-In-Chief<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":16130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[170,171,289,288,172,222],"class_list":["post-16525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-cora","tag-cora-mcclain","tag-editor","tag-letter","tag-letter-from-the-editor","tag-wou-update"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}