The Saint Ignatius Spirit Review

     Overall, The Saint Ignatius Spirit was my favorite newspaper that we've received so far. This newspaper had the best layout, color scheme, font, and pictures of all three newspapers and the finished product looks extremely professional. The front and back pages were the best two pages of this newspaper in my opinion because they both looked extremely thought out. Using Saint Ignatius' school colors as the color scheme for their newspaper was a smart move and the layout of both pages is very creative. I love the back page with the flow chart stemming from the Saint Ignatius Wolfpack logo because it includes a ton of creative, funny, and most importantly interactive "bubbles." For example, one bubble asked a funny, open-ended question about Harry Potter and told students to tweet their answer using hashtags we made up. I think emulating something like this where we ask students to tweet their answer either "at" us or using our hashtag could be really successful and we could also offer our gift cards as rewards to them. Another part of the back page that I really like is the part where they highlighted three different students' tweets about Saint Ignatius. The reason I like this idea so much is because it is really fun for students to see their friends and themselves in the paper as well as get excited to try to be highlighted in this section for the next issue. The rest of The Saint Ignatius Spirit is professionally written and produced (they don't have random boxes around random parts of articles) and I think all of their pictures where very well taken. The pictures in the paper are especially worth noting because they were all taken by students and they all still look interesting and well produced. I hope that throughout the year The Beacon can evolve into a paper that looks as well made as this one.