Staff and Structures
There are 11 editors who comprise the Peak Editorial Board: Copy, Production, News, Associate News, Opinions, Features, Arts, Sports, Humour, Photo and Multimedia.
The Peak functions as a collective; there is no Managing Editor or Editor in Chief position. Each editor maintains total control of their section, while broader decisions are made democratically, by the editorial board as a whole. The Peak also maintains a board of directors, which makes certain other decisions, mostly financial in nature. This board is made up partly of editorial staff, partly of "at large" representatives. Peak editors are elected by the paper's voting "collective," which formally consists of all editors and recent writers, for a period of one semester. Editors may, and very often do, seek multiple terms, sometimes ultimately spanning several years.
The Peak employs a Distribution and Archives Manager, and a Business and Advertising Manager. They are hired, not elected, positions. The Business and Advertising Manager has historically been the most long-lived position at the paper, and is thus the repository for much of the Society's institutional memory.
Like many student newspapers in British Columbia, The Peak is formally run as a registered non-profit society under the Society Act of British Columbia, known as the Peak Publications Society. Technically all SFU students are members of the Peak Society, and refundable membership dues are imposed on all students as part of the university's student activity fee, which are used to partially fund the paper's operations.
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