Southern Echo and WINOL

There's an excellent interview by Josh (year two) on the WINOL site playing on the community channel (you might have to wait for the climate change video produced by Hants county council to play through) which discusses all the changes that are taking place in journalism right now. Very useful and interesting for year one in particular re: The News Agenda; and Year Three, re: most employable skills. You can also view the interview on YouTube at this address: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S03o6QtbELI

Josh - please email the editor and ask him to have a look at the WINOL site if he has time. Y'all need this man to think that good things are happening on the Winchester University course so you can get good work attachments and maybe when the economy picks up starter jobs. And as he says, those starter jobs are going to be about putting stuff on the web (especially cheap, effective video on the web). But he also wants written stories on the web.

This is part of a big update of the site over the weekend with a new front page, a new way of displaying features and many other developments. These developments continue so keep checking back on the site which is now effectively updating daily, though the main re-make will still take place at 5pm on Wednesdays - Live at Five!

The next big push with WINOL will be to get the visual side of the magazine and features working, and we've made a start on that. We are lucky because Catherine is an accompmplished fashion photographer, and one or two others are showing a great visual sense through video work as well. We will work on that through the last couple of weeks of term, and then over the Xmas break so that the Third Years are ready for the final magazine and loonger-form documentary phase of the course.

WINOL's circulation has now overtaken both the Hampshire Chronicle and the Basingstoke Gazette and I bet that if you just looked at their circulation in Winchester we would be at least neck and neck with them.