Press Service International (PSI) young writer program with Christian Today has seen Sophia Sinclair become chief editor this year, which in turn has precipitated the need for four new 'week' editors.
Sophia Sinclair has been PSI editor since February 2015 and with such a demanding role with 85 young writers, it became obvious that something creative was required to lighten the load.
PSI functions with 10 Cycles a year, and each Cycle consists of 5 weeks.
Week 1 - Internationals
Week 2 - Australians
Week 3 - Australians
Week 4 - New Zealanders
Week 5 - Australians
These 85 young writers are spread over these five weeks and each of these 5 Weeks has their own coordinator who sends to their week of young writers their reminders for their due date and an initial check of articles and letterheads and the like.
Four new faces
John Skinner from Warwick Queensland,
Rosanne Menacho of Melbourne,
Irenie How from Christchurch New Zealand and
Aira Chilcott of Canberra
These four professionals will take over the editing roles of Weeks 2, Week 3, Week 4 and Week 5 as Week 1 (the international young writers) have always had Dr Mark Tronson as their editor due to their pesky time zones.
Explanation
This is not a complicated system, but it requires some explanation. The young writers of each of these 5 weeks have dead line dates. Writers are accustomed to dead lines.
That deadline is a Monday night. The Week Coordinator each Monday night sends all those articles to young writer editor, Sophia Sinclair. This is how it functions: – Monday night deadline = articles get an initial check - then sent to editor Sophia Sinclair.
Sophia Sinclair edits each article, corresponds with the writer, approves each piece and on the Friday afternoon the articles of that week are sent to Christian Today for the following week with publication days and dates.
Four editors
Shortly, the four new edits will be taking charge of one week each. It goes with saying they each love and serve the Lord Jesus.
John Skinner from Warwick is an experienced secular editor with 25 years a photo journalist and teaching young trainee journalists the art of editing and writing.
Rosanne Menacho of Melbourne is studying a Master's degree of Interpreting and Translation (and published such as indigenous stories into Spanish).
Irenie How is a graphic designer in Christchurch engaged in ministry development.
Aira Chiclott is a retired secondary college teacher which has included over many years taking students on tours to India through OM.
These new editors in this second part of the year will initiate their editing roles. Sophia Sinclair as chief editor will be there to steer the team in order that they will go it alone in 2017. This is an exciting development.
Both Andrew and Sophia Sinclair (chief editor) are part of the young writer program.
Dr Mark Tronson is a Baptist minister (retired) who served as the Australian cricket team chaplain for 17 years (2000 ret) and established Life After Cricket in 2001. He was recognised by the Olympic Ministry Medal in 2009 presented by Carl Lewis Olympian of the Century. He mentors young writers and has written 24 books, and enjoys writing. He is married to Delma, with four adult children and grand-children.
Mark Tronson's archive of articles can be viewed at http://www.pressserviceinternational.org/mark-tronson.html