The Man Behind the Screen

Axel Rodriguez is a student in Bowie High School that excels in both Journalism and Golf. He is an exemplary student for both athletes and aspiring journalists. Rodriguez is a student that shows commitment for both golf and journalism without compromising each other.
“Instead of a newspaper that puts facts and I can publish something that I feel more important. Finally, I can take something down that I don’t like,” Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez runs the Bowie’s journalism website. Rodriguez is the head editor of the Bowie’s journalism website.
“Yes, I do run the Bowie’s journalism website and the benefits of running the website is that I can choose what goes up on the website. Also, I can choose whether to take something out and have a unique sense to the website,” Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez sees the benefits of running the websites such as choosing whether stories get published at the website or nor. Furthermore, Rodriguez likes to put an interesting spin of the website and hates the usual conventions of how a website is run.
“Axel is the website editor, so he uses our website BowieBearsNews.com. He basically runs the site. He is the admin and he determines what stories post up there and sends out newsletter. Also, he used to work for the yearbook last year but this year he is doing more of the website. He was kind of push away from there a little bit, but he help with us every now and then with the cutouts or some of the spreads,” William Vega said.
Vega mentions that Rodriguez is capable of being a role model for aspiring journalists because Rodriguez can show the aspiring journalists of how to the run the website and edit pictures on Bridge and Photoshop.
“I think he would be because he could show the website, even though pretty photos. Maybe he could show people “Hey this is what we do “. Websites are very relevant right now and maybe that would be a good to recruiting someone,” Vega said.
“It’s really hard to balance both golf and journalism because both of them take a large amount of time and block schedule taking place this year it makes it even harder,” Rodriguez said.
“From my point of view, he is a really good golf player and he is a good team player for the team,” Christian Mendez said.
“This year he is so excited that inspires the team,” Mendez said.
According to Mendez, Rodriguez has so much enthusiasm towards this year golf season that he inspires the rest of the team to do good at golf.