NEW WINCHESTER REVIEW

The new template and index pages for New Winchester Review is here: http://www.onlineeducation.org.uk/. The site will be produced and edited by Year Three students this semester (they will work on Tuesdays, in the newsroom and the MMC. We will add all sorts of great material to this site, including writing and video produced for other modules on the course. On the indexes there are lists of the sort of articles we need for have written. All this is super upmarket - the NEW WINCHESTER REVIEW is something like The Spectator or The Economist or Prospect. We will also be doing some more fun the stuff - the Vault and the Shed and so on, and the third years will power the content of those magazines with the content they will be producing for the the magazine journalism course with Jacqui Thornton. But New Winchester Review will be the portal for everything and we can grow sections within it; make everything video based and modern. It is going to be great and it hard to predict the final shape of it. But I am sure it will be widely read and seen as very much the future of journalism. We will also SEO optimise the living daylights out of it, and get loads of national and international traffic (WINOL is a more local thing). So this will be your national showcase (with a much, much wider agenda and range of material in both tine and subject matter). The next immediate job will be to move some material off the coursesite (such as the Journalism Now), We will then see how we can relate the blogs to the New Winchester Review site more effectively. Another job is to but NWR into a content management system so that a lot of material that now goes on your personal blog can go on the REVIEW site. In production terms I will show the third years how to use flash, video and dreamweaver to make highly visually led sites like these. But that will be a slow and difficult process.