The YES Page Editor’s
Career
When we started this page, it was designed as a page prepared by
students and for students. And never during its existence have we broken this rule. I hope
this tradition won’t change. And therefore, now, when I have graduated from MSU and am
no longer a student, I have also to cease being the editor of this page. In the following
article I will tell about the years of my honest hard work.
I also want to say “thank you” to Alyona Gromushkina, Chief Editor of English,
and all the staff of English, who have to work with our articles – which
obviously contain many mistakes, and therefore require more correcting, than the articles
for the other fifteen pages.
The new editor of YES page is Nika Osadtchaia. If for some reason you want to contact me
personally, you’re always welcome to send e-mail to: yusup@fmradio.ru.
We can say that this story began when we – Svetlana Anurova, who was
the editor of this page, Natalya Khmelik, our advisor, and I, deputy editor – decided to
change the format of the YES page. Our idea was to limit the size of our articles, so that
each page was to contain at least four articles devoted to different subjects. It was
obvious that this format would make the page more interesting…though it’s much harder
to find four small interesting articles, than to find one which is large, if not
necessarily interesting. And I was very glad that I was only deputy editor, and therefore
wasn’t responsible for anything.
So you can imagine my terror when about two months later Svetlana told
us that she was going to France to prepare her diploma. I tried to find someone who would
be able to replace her; but it proved to be impossible. Nobody wanted this
responsibility…that’s how I became the editor of the YES page.
My career started from the action necessary for any chief – with
forming a team. The first person I needed was an art-director, as I never was a good
designer and wanted to have recommendations on how our page should look. Probably this
task was the first which I didn’t fulfil – those persons who tried to be our
art-directors, after several issues decided that it would be better to disappear than to
continue their work.
One of the main obstacles on my way was the lack of articles. Everyone
told me: don’t wait for authors to invent something interesting, invent a topic by
yourself, and ask them to write an article on this topic. But it’s also not an easy task
– to invent three or four topics every week. And when Natalya Khmelik founded a
journalist seminar for students, it was a great help for me. The topics invented by them
can be found almost everywhere in our page – starting from most articles, and finishing
with the subjects of discussions. And the participants of this seminar – Agatha, Olga
Doctorova, Pavel Stroilov, Kassy M. and others – are among our best and most interesting
authors.
The person I found – and I was very glad to find – was Lena
Kuzminykh, who worked with me for more than a year, helping to choose good articles and to
correct them. Her work almost allowed me to again become a deputy editor…with one
difference – now I was the person who was responsible for this page. But with Lena it
was rather easy, and the year she worked with us was probably the best time for our page.
You probably guess what happened then – Lena left for Germany, to prepare her diploma.
It’s luck that I prepared my diploma in Moscow.
Fortunately, I didn’t work alone for long – Nika Osadtchaia
appeared, who (at last!) replaces me in this position. And I am able to take a rest from
the main problem of all editors –authors who never hand in their articles by the
deadline.
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