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Paul Deal endorsement and WINOL LIFE - first edition

Here's some more endorsement. This time from Paul Deal, lately of the BBC college of Journalism. The great thing is that these guys in the training arm of the business go round all the colleges, so if they are singing your praises this will do you a lot of good in a general way.

PAUL DEAL - see: http://www.youtube.com/user/Winchesterjournalism#p/a/u/1/EtDfhBDauVI

And this is great fun - the first attempt at a ONE SHOW type light journalism magazine programmer ('sofa vision'). In line with Angus's remarks below is a bit of a train wreck, but we will get better at it. One advantage is that because we have this now as an outlet for all the lightweight stuff, we can concentrate on making the news much more heavier and substantial. As ever it is all about separating out the generic forms - so no fluff in the news; and no heavy stuff in the fashion magazine (etc). It is like having a balanced meal with distinct courses and not just a mush of all the ingredients - sweet and savory all the time. Get it? More of this sort of approach next semester (partic. year three).

Here it is: WINOL LIFE: http://www.youtube.com/user/Winchesterjournalism#p/a/u/0/Bv9_FkQGgCk

Blimey its exactly the same task!

Sorry to twitter but I am listening to the programme (see below) and the panel were asked to find 'Orwellian language' in each of his categories, just on a single day. So there it is - there's your homework done for you (at a basic level). But it would be better to find funnier examples using video. Video has more impact. (PS - I like DJ Taylor's point about the language being refreshed by new words coming up from the streets such as Chav, and not just being a pedant.

YEAR TWO - Zeitgeist again

Discussion on Radio Four "Word of Mouth" about Orwell's 'Politics and the English Language'. Should give you some good ideas for the easy/fun/serious task of analysing some ffound 'Orwellian' langauge and hopefully making a short video about it; or writing a short 'special' piece on your blog. If you are producing a piece of writing this should be about 500 words. The video should be uploaded or embedded on your blog (you can upload to the WINOLNEWS you tube account and then link to that.). I am hoping to link all the pieces together in order to create something really worthwhile.

You can listen to the WORD OF MOUTH programme on the BBC replay (Radio Four). It was broadcast on Monday evening December 21st) at 11pm. It is being discussed by various big cheese journos such as David Aaronovitch of The Times, etc

Remember you've always got your finger on the intellectual pulse of the nation when you sticj with Winchester Journalism.

LATEST WINOL

While not wishing to appear too much of a Christmas humbug, Wednesday's production was pretty shambolic. What made air on the news and sport side was a testament to the hard work you had put in previously in the semester, not about the organisation on the day. Without a deadline it turned into amateur time.

We have not deconstructed the bulletin as such, but it should be said that just because it went out once, doesn't mean that those packages that had poor edits, dodgy sound and black holes in them, should then be repeated in exactly the same form as before.

I'm sure those prospective students who were interviewed by us on the day were more impressed with the studio, rather than what was going on in it, or the way it was run.

Our visiting editor Paul Deal was clearly more inspired by the set up, rather than the performance.

Despite all this it has been a good semester. A number of you have produced work of a very high standard.

Your report and reflections will be important, and should take in to account all your experiences of the year in the studio, what you've learned and how you've learned it, and suggestions of how your time could have been improved.

Enjoy your break, and year twos get ready for a full but very fulfilling semester ahead.

By the way....Happy Christmas.

BBC COLLEGE OF JOURNALISM

It's so good that you may want to leave university now and spend your fees on flights to Las Vegas or Chelsea season tickets - the BBC has finally opened up its entire College of Journalism resources to the public. It is, in my humble opinion, now the greatest website on the planet for student journalists - apart from WINOL - check it out at:

www.bbc.co.uk/journalism

Wonders of You Tube

For years and years I've wanted to be able show this ancient advert for the Guardian in order to make a point about balance and bias. But I could never be bothered to track it down in a film library somewhere. Now here it is in all its very clever brilliantness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3bfO1rE7Yg&NR=1

ELECTION CAMPAIGN

For those of you thinking of applying to Sky to take part in their ELECTION CAMPAIGN, can you see me before sending off your cvs as you will be sending them to Simon Bucks, who was my boss for 5 years at ITV.

Monday 14th December year 2/3 de-brief

CHRIS HORRIE: I am running late. I will brief you all on the critical report - as you have all been very aware or a long time it doesn't need to be in until after Xmas and it is very, very easy to do. We will have the editorial conferences as usual, but this week one big conference with an agenda of Management, News, Sport, Features all in one meeting. My feeling is that we should go for a schedule like this:

MONDAY (today) everyone re-do/ improve their best packages for news and/or features.

TUESDAY 11am - all 'Monday' packages in

TUESDAY 11am - rehearse in studio a 'best of bulletin' of 20 Twenty Minutes. BUT on ten minutes have a line in the script which says 'after the break' - so we can have two You Tube videos with an advertising break. On livestream we can run it live. That will look really cool.

12 noon - record the 20 minute bulletin as live

1.30 pm - re-record the studio links and perfect them, so we can fix any fluffs in post production. (1.30 is so we can do football 12 - 1.00).

2.00 - rehearse and perfect studio links with second news and sports presenter (and diferent studio control? - for practice)

3.00 - rehearse and perfect studio links with third presenter

4.00 - rehearse and perfect studio links with fourth presenter


WEDNESDAY


Re-do bulletin with 'Tuesday packages'

11 am all packages in.

12 noon - rehearse a 10 minute bulletin with most confident presenters (trail magazine show)

1 pm - set up MAGAZINE show with features cued up. Two presenters (and a sofa?) Needs also to cue away to Glenn's what's on - maybe using the camera in TAB9 or in the MMC. That would look fantastic (in the MMC). Alice and Cara to present this; or maybe Alice and another who wants a go at being on screen.

2pm record magazine show live - it is just cueing up the feature video like The Transport Race and then having the producer of these videos in the studio as studio guests, plus anyone else you can get as an interesting guest.

Two presenters bantering in a relaxed way and introducing the cued up videos.

3pm - sportsweek - likewise Mark and guests with cued up 'best of videos' Don't worry if the sequence is not right...

Then at 5pm we should be able to put out a 20 minute bulletin; a magazine show (30mins) and a sports show (10 - 20 mins).

Ambitious but what do we think?

Apart from that I need to clean up the barker links with Alice and show Tom Hobbs how to operate Livestream.

See you later this morning.

MORE ABOUT ROB KIRK

More about Rob Kirk... Did the equivalent of James Kenyon's job at Sky for a good few years, assigning reporters to national stories all over. So he knows his premier league when he sees it.

SEE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn4d14Eh4A0

AND YET MORE ABOUT ROB KIRK:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fzc4dieqMU&feature=related

Canadians

Competition for WINOL from Candian MA postgrad students. I'm lovin' that pacy opening credits sequence. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_FqcfiCCk8

Year 1 and Year 2 Law Test revision

A recording of the revision session where I went through sample test questions can be found here by clicking here: LAW REVISION WEBCAST. It is about 1hr and 30mins and pulls it all together.

Message from Rob Kirk about the General Election

SENT TO ALL BJTC accredited colleges: An opportunity is likely to crop up early in the New Year for a couple of bright journalists to take part in Sky News’ innovative online reporting of the General Election campaign.

The role would suit recent graduates with a multi-platform background, comfortable with online production and connectivity. They’d need to be sharp, imaginative, hard-working and pro-active.

The jobs will involve about 12 weeks paid work at the Sky News Centre at Osterley in west London, probably from early February.

Candidates should send an email with their name in the subject heading, followed by ‘ELECTION CAMPAIGN’, with a full CV, to Simon Bucks, Associate Editor of Sky News: simon.bucks@bskyb.com.

Given that recent graduates and postgraduates from your courses might be good candidates, I wonder if you’d be in a position to distribute this note.

Many thanks.

Rob Kirk
Editorial Development Manager

HCj-2

Sorry - the recording we made today of the symposium is not working and can't be webcast. The recording went very well, but then I forgot to press the render button... and then had to rush off and do something else. Maddie has made some notes and they are on her blog, here.

HCJ-1 revision

There is a record of this week's HCJ1 revision session at this link (sound only). The first part of the session (about the 'state of nature') is missing, but we will try and fix that. The discussion therefore starts on The Empiricists (the previous questions were on The Enlightenment and the State of Nature). This talk covers the area of the test and flags up he sort of things you ought to have a good grip on for the test. http://www.virtualnewsroom.co.uk/HCJ1sem1revision.aiff

WINOL - in a different league

Congratulations to the WINOL team - 300 unique user sessions overnight, meaning that you were once again almost certainly the single most read media source on the campus yesterday. Rob Kirk of Sky was genuinely impressed and I think his announcement that you are in the 'Premier League' of BJTC journalism courses is sincere (and that was just the bulletin, at that point he had not seen the rest of the site). Remember that the majority of BJTC courses he deals with are at the MA level. The bulletin and Catherine's 'behind the scenes' video have been uploaded to the Winchesterjournalism YouTube channel.

WINOL - 459
BAS GAZ - 742
HAM CHRON 814
WES SCENE 1688
WNOL 3781

Libel laws

Interesting article in the Guardian today on the libel laws in Desmond v Bower. Take a look at it yourself at http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/dec/07/desmond-libel-law-ruling

You should be reading the Media Guardian every Monday and its sister website every day.

How to video: Videojournalism

Here's a video tutorial / masterclass on video journalism we recorded a few weeks ago when Tom Hepworth from the BBC came in to see y'all third years.

Graham's Tip of the Day

Check this out - wish I'd had it years ago
http://www.confusingwords.com
Who needs tutors?

1984: George Orwell - screening

We are showing the film 1984 live at 3pm in the HJLT today. It is part of the HCJ2 course which at the moment is dealing with some themes in the philosophy of language. But this is a tremendous book full of ideas and exposition of political theory and is highly entertaining as well. So all students are welcome. It is better to see it in a group than individually. Ignorance is Strength!

Chris Ship WINOL comments

Chris Ship's comments on WINOL:

Wednesday's Guest Editor

The Guest Editor on Wednesday is ITV Political Correspondent Chris Ship. As well as covering Westminster, Chris also presents the main ITV News:


He's a top operator who will be able to give you some brilliant tips on sourcing stories, filming, presenting.. etc.