Eyrie blog has transformed paper for new generation

Airport High school’s newspaper, The Eyrie, has transformed over the last generation in presentation and in form with the help of student journalists at Airport High School.

Ever since the start of Airport High School, The Eyrie has been a very important part of the student community. Over the past couple of years, however, it has transformed in a variety of ways, and was not published at all between 2008 and 2016. The Eyrie may be familiar to the Journalism students, but it is not as familiar to the rest of Airport High School. This is the reason why we are trying to bring attention to our former school newspaper.

At first, The Eyrie was in print form.

A few years ago, after a brief hiatus when it was not published at all, it transferred over to an online version, where you can access it from the school’s homepage. This was most likely done because it goes along with how the recent generation gets its news.

The process of writing for The Eyrie may seem easy to create, but according to recent staff members, there are some obstacles that have to be overcome, such as meeting deadlines, getting along with other staff members, trying to get the text to fit, etc. These obstacles when creating The Eyrie definitely changed when the newspaper switched from print form to online form because you no longer had to get the text to fit in the guidelines or put different columns in certain sections.

The Eyrie in 1991 and 1992 was much different than The Eyrie in 2017. In 1992, Lisa Lucas Miller, an alumna of Airport High School and the mother of Sydney Miller, was the co-entertainment editor of The Eyrie. She said she ”had [her] own entertainment column in the newspaper.”

This proved to be challenging though. The hardest part seemed to be “meeting deadlines and getting things to fit without too much space,” said Mrs. Miller. She also said that it’s important for journalists to be “impartial, thorough,” and able to “work well under pressure.”

This is very different from the current version of The Eyrie, according to, Guadalupe Izaguirre, a senior at Airport High School and a member of the Eyrie staff during the first semester of 2016-2017. She said,”writing articles,” and “crafting ideas for a story,” are fun but challenging. In 2017, there were also some conflicts such as “getting along with others,” whereas, in 1992, they were like family. “If somebody didn’t follow through with what they were supposed to do or they wrote a bad article, we all pitched in to help,” said Mrs. Miller.

According to Mrs. Miller, it’s important to have a school newspaper “so the students are able to keep up with school events and able to contribute to their school.” When asking two other students, one in Journalism last semester and one not in Journalism at all, the same question, they both answered similar to Mrs. Miller’s answer.

Austin Lucas, a freshman at Airport High School, said it’s important to have a school newspaper “so that people can get information on what is happening in the school.”

Guadalupe Izaguirre, as mentioned earlier, said that it’s important to have a school newspaper “so that all readers have an idea about what’s going on.” All this is very true and it goes along with why we have a school newspaper.

With all the changes to The Eyrie that have happened over the years, Airport High school can only imagine what changes are going to happen next. The Journalism students are already working on making changes and bringing back old traditions to our school, such as, the Last Will and Testaments section from the Eyrie of 1984, which you can access in the new section of the Eyrie, archives.

The Last Will and Testaments section was a way for Seniors to tell of the legacy they want to leave for the upcoming generations of classes to follow.

For more information, visit ahs.lex2.org, click student links, then The Eyrie. If you want to enter your own article in the Eyrie, or are interested in taking the Journalism class next year, visit Mrs. Rasmussen in room 311.