I am still analyzing the results of the website data and intend to create data visualizations. The qualitative interview data is best to be organized separately to identify how each section responded to the questions and can be individually improved (this has not yet been done). The interviews have not fully been coded, but here are some of the initial findings:

1. There is no uniform method for recruitment, and each section uses their own methods to recruit writers. Some reach out to specific campus organizations and some utilize partnerships (Harvard Public Opinion Project, for example). Almost all reach out to individuals.
2. Most content tends to come from past writers, compers, and covers. Across the board, HPR editors are not able to bring in new writers. Instead, it would seem that editors rely on the staff director to bring in compers, and the writers that the magazine brings in.
3. Only two of the sections were planning on holding socials with writers while on campus. Community building within sections is essentially nonexistent outside of the comp.

Recommended action:

1. Require that each section track the number of published articles and recruited writers within their sections. This is to create a basic understanding of where their content generation and writer outreach compares to last year. Use the campus section as a model.
2. Create “section journals” to create institutional memory within each section. This way, editors can track the initiatives/series’ that they roll out and allow future editors to make decisions based on past decisions. 
3. Encourage sections to have socials with their past writers midway through the semester. This will create more community within the section and allow writers to engage with editors on a more personal level. Creating personal relationships with writers will be important to soliciting more content in the future, as the interview results show that editors mostly utilize past writers for more content.
4. Create one document for detailing a recruitment strategy for everyone in the HPR. Include lists of campus organizations which editors can solicit and lists of past writers they can reach out to.