Sunday 28 November 2010

WINOL: Website Editor

At the mid point of this year's first Semester we were given the opportunity to change roles (those of us who wanted to). I decided to resign from my position as Managing Editor as I felt I had got all I could from that position and believed that it needed a fresh head to provide some new impetus. I certainly felt that my time as Managing Editor was successful but believe that it was time to give up the role and try something new.

I am currently Website Manager. This is a position which I am not entirely thrilled about acquiring as the same problems seem to be present in this position as with the position of Managing Editor; that is to say that other people can do your job, which makes you feel rather irrelevant.

My duty now is to decide how the website looks and to say what content should be included. The Website Editor position, seems to me to have been created without any real need to have one; Chris and Glenn can decide the overall look of the site, and Veronica decides the content- so I don't honestly see that there is a requirement for a Website Editor thus leaving me very disappointed with the overall WINOL experience I have encountered this semester. I have strong convictions that if it weren't for me putting unessential and unrequired work into the project, I might as well have been absent this term.

Nonetheless I wish to make good use of the couple of weeks I have left before Christmas to make the best of the newly created position of Website Editor. My new position has given a certain air of clarity to the layout of the website as Glenn and I have tidied it up and made it look a lot more presentable e.g. we made all articles appear the same lengths on the site, changed the overall typography, and made the site look more smart in appearance.

In addition to my job I also did sub-editing this week (I felt my role requires me to do so), which helps out with Glenn and Cara etc. I Discussed the use of photographs to improve the site with Veronica and also conferred with Jason as to the essentialness of having photos for the site.

As my role appears to give some free time, I offered my assistance to production. On Tuesday I helped out with the children who came in and alongside Paul, Josh, and Rob, demonstrated and let them use our gallery facilities for their own production. On top of this I filmed the band Davis who came in as part of our What's On Winchester production. Also, on Wednesday I ressumed the role of VT operator, for the bulletin, on the newly improved VT software.

On Friday we finally got to record our bulletin live at the Southern Daily Echo. This was a privilege of which I had arranged as my time as Managing Editor for WINOL, which had finally come to fruition. This was a great experience, as it gave all WINOL's executive team the chance to go down and take part in producing a bulletin the like of which we have never done, and so I am particularly pleased with myself and the team as a whole, who, in visiting the Echo, got to "show off" what we can do, and hopefully retain close links we made that day with the Echo in the future.

Thursday 25 November 2010

Media Law and Ethics: Codes of Practice

Codes of Practice are the very rules which keep us, as journalists, in check and should be followed in order to protect both ourselves and others.

There are four main codes:
-NUJ Code of Conduct. This is outlined in the 12 point guide NUJ Code.
- PCC: newspapers and magazines. This covers the areas below:
Accuracy
Opportunity to reply
Privacy
Harassment
Intrusion into grief or shock
Children
Children in sex cases
Hospitals
Reporting crime
Victims of sexual assault
Discrimination
Financial Journalism
Confidential sources
Witness payments in criminal trials
Payments to criminals
Sometimes there are exceptions to the way in which each area is dealt with when public interest is cited
- Ofcom: broadcasters. There are lengthily guidelines for broadcasting on Ofcom's website under "Broadcast Guidelines"

- BBC: for their staff and licence payers. There is an extensive amount of information under the BBC's Editorial Guidelines.

Why do codes matter?
- Guide us through ethical issues
- How far we can go to get a story
- Guide us to what practices are legitimate

Key areas the codes aid:
- Ethical behaviour
- Fair treatment
- Respect for privacy
- Accuracy and impartiality
- Protecting vulnerable demographics

Currently in the media this week, Ofcom revoked the licences of four Adult premium-rate phone channels. The channels "Tease Me" have all been suspended as they have been ruled as "no longer fit and proper" - Ofcom said that the various channels' daytime content was 'the equivalent of hardcore pornography'.

Ofcom hopes the removal of the Tease Me channels will act as a warning to other channels of the same genre, and the broadcast regulator is set to meet all Adult licencees to ensure that they are adhering to the regulator's rules. Over the last 18 months the network had breached Ofcom regulations more than 60 times and had repeatedly breached the rules regarding protecting children from inappropriate material.

Monday 22 November 2010

Media Law and Ethics: FOI continued

After previously having a Freedom of Information Act lecture, we then had another one which consisted of a more in-depth analysis of the act, plus we put the FOI act into use as a classroom exercise.

The learning task we undertook was to make an FOI request ourselves. Firstly, we had to learn how to properly construct and implement a request. Here we discovered that precision is key for finding the information the individual requires. The more specific the enquiry, the quicker and less likely the respondent will be in postponing the request.

Below is a screenshot of the acknowledgment from an FOI request Rob and I put in. We contacted the Young People's Learning Agency to enquire how many young people who receive government financial aid go on to complete their respective studies.


The response was met quickly, and I was told that they would get back to me as soon as possible. I am fairly convinced that my request will be answered as I have made two previous requests and both were met within the time limit stated in the 2000 Act.

Sunday 14 November 2010

WINOL: Week 6

It was a good week this week as I encountered WINOL's first complaint of the semester. The complaint followed a live studio debate, which focused around tuition fees and budget cuts. The format consisted of a presenter posing questions to three studio guests (two of which were left and one right of the political spectrum). From the offset we were rather dubious about appearing bias due to us only having one Conservative guest, so we payed close attention so as not to appear as we were attacking him in any way. Oddly it was not this individual who filed the complaint.

The individual had complained that he had been unfairly treated as he was misrepresented by the way the final edit was put together; his complaint wasn't that there was heavy editing, but that it had been edited in a way which he felt misrepresented him.

All involved, and I saw this was the case, did everything in their power so as not to cause controversy and remain impartial and fair, however, due to inexperience, we made a fault and duly and graciously accepted this. In response we wrote an apology to the studio guest, and offered him a chance to reappear as a guest. In addition, we are also going to publish an open letter of apology on the website to acknowledge our mistakes and present the fact that we have nothing at all to hide in coming forward to receive criticism.

My duty was to offer the guest our condolences and offer him a chance to appear as a guest again (an offer to which I am yet to receive a reply to). Also, Veronica and I worked together to write the apology letter. I strongly believe that everyone involved worked quickly and efficiently to amend the problem (i.e. I took the video down from YouTube), and appease the studio guest.

Although the aforementioned was the highlight of my week, other tasks were undertaken by myself which included: reviewing the bulletin, publishing the stats, thanking the IT staff for the improvement on our network, distributing the bulletin running orders in the newsroom, and helping with filming.




Wednesday 10 November 2010

Media Law and Ethics: Copyright

Copyright is, in a sense, theft. It is classed as a theft because it is making use of someone's work without that person giving any sort of consent of permission. If an individual can prove that their 'intellectual' property has been stolen then they have grounds to sue the person/persons who have stolen their intellectual property.

Copyright is a fast growing law area, and the lengths that people are willing to go to protect their intellectual property are huge as the world makes technological advances in media.

All work an individual produces belongs to the individual until they sell the results and rights of the work to another.

Intellectual property has as much copyright solidity as something produced by hand. When someone sells their property, there are differences between the two types, as property produced by hand's rights is likely to be sold of completely whereas intellectual property is far more likely to be licenced in exchange for payment, with the original creator still holding ownership; this is particularly true for freelance media work.

There is no Copyright for ideas. One can only claim copyright breach when there is already clear evidence of an idea. If one wishes copyright protection then there property must be of substancial detail and not infringe on any copyright itself (i.e. be original).

Lifting. There is no copyright in the facts of a news story, but everything about the news story is copyrighted... even down to the very words the reporter uses. Any interview or quotes in a story is copyrighted, but the barebones and facts of a story is free from copyright issues.

Fair Dealing. Through fair dealing, copyrighted material can be used in the following ways: Private study purposes
Performance, copies or lending for educational purposes
News reports
Lending by libraries
Official proceedings
"Time shifting" for convenience
Producing a personal back-up
Playing a recording for a non-profit organisation
Fair Dealing allows wider reporting of stories in the public interest, criticism and review of coypright material, broadcast of news obits of film stars can use famous movie clips for free. Photographs, however, are NOT subject to fair dealing.



The best defense of breach of copyright is that one can lift quotes etc from a publication through fair dealing if it is in the public interest. However, the extracted copyright material must be acknowledged (that it is the work of somebody else) by it's extractor and certainly not be passed off as their own work. One does not have to specify where the source was from exactly, i.e. if the Daily Mail revealed some info, it could be said that 'a newspaper revealed', but one should never pass the work off as their own. By doing this malice can also be avoided if the 'news exclusive' transpires to be of a malicious nature.

The length of time property has copyright protection is very peculiar. The 1998 statute states that art work, music scores, drama, film etc is free from copyright 70 years after the death of the particular author/performer. And for music, sound, and broadcasts, there is no copyright after 50 years.

Recently the government has proposed to lower the restrictions on 'intellectual property' to that of the US. The lowering of restrictions, it is argued, is to help economic stimulus and stop creativity being impinged and restricted. The business and economic argument for lowering current UK copyright law is that there is a neccesity for creative people to take already existing concepts and rework or better them for greater creative purposes and economic stimulus.

David Cameron commented that a huge company such as Google would have been unable to originate from the UK with the current restrictions the way they are. If more relaxed copyright laws come to fruition then technological businesses will benefit from a clearer vision and certainty as to what can be patented.

Hopefully, more relaxed copyright laws will be met in the UK, which will bring both economic and creative advantages.

Tuesday 9 November 2010

Media Law and Ethics: Freedom of Information

Since the Freedom of Informations Act's introduction, investigative journalism has experienced a major breakthrough. It is now easier than ever to acquire previously unattainable information from public establishments - with most institutions having their own FOI sector and being legally obliged to respond to a request within a specified time limit.

This is an exceptional gift for the investigative or Gonzo journalist, who now can now expose miscarriages of justice and public interest material without going to enormous lengths to obtain the previously repressed information.

It's significance can be seen, with an example that I'm sure everyone is familiar with, in the MP expenses scandal. The Telegraph exposed the information after it had made a simple FOI request.

The 2000 Act, which came into effect in January 2005, makes it mandatory for a public authority to disclose whether or not it has the information the enquirer wishes to know. This includes Government departments, police, and hospitals.

"Information must be released UNLESS it is judged that the public interest in NOT disclosing it is greater than the public interest in releasing it".

The exemptions of the Act includes things such as special forces and trades secrets etc (not public sector).

The individual seeking information is not obliged to reveal why they require the information, and the institution's response must (usually) be within 20 working days.

Right now in the media there is an amusing example of the use of the Freedom of Information Act in Sussex, where the local Brighton newspaper (The Argus) has exposed that "an OAP crimewave is washing across Sussex". It details that hundreds of old age pensioners have been arrested in the county for an array of offenses including fraud, assault, and serious sexual offenses.

WINOL: week six running schedule

NEWS

Lead Story
Student Fees Demo (consists of two packages)

Preemptive package about demonstration (VT Jack Courtez)

Tuition fee report from London (Live OB with Will Cooper and Maddie Klippel)

Total Length: 2 mins 20secs VT

Deadline: Weds 12pm

Second Story
Tuition fee rises will force poorer people to look for cheaper Universities (Stu Appleby)
Length: 1min 20secs VT
Deadline: Weds 12pm

Third Story
Budget Cuts (Julie Cordier)
Length: 1min VT
Deadline: Weds 12pm

Fourth Story
Social Zoning (Joey Lipscombe)
Length: 1min 20secs VT
Deadline: Weds 12pm

Fifth Story
Poppy Appeal (Michael Connolly)
Length: 1min VT
Deadline: Weds 12pm

And Finally...
Bird Seed Cake (Gareth Messenger)
Length: 1min VT
Deadline: 12pm Weds

SPORT (2 mins)

Short highlight clips - football
- rugby

What's On

Fireworks VT

Monday 8 November 2010

WINOL BULLETIN REVIEW: WEEK 5

It was an amazing bulletin this week, consisting of strong stories and a celebrity guest. The large choice of stories this week enabled us to pick and choose which packages we used and also didn't affect production when some packages failed to meet their deadlines. In addition, the green screen has been improved enormously and now gives a really professional feel to the whole WINOL setup.

The criticisms have diminished so much that analytically, it is very hard to give negative criticisms... However there are some, and here they are:

- Reporters need to use better headline clips.

- White balance needs to remain consistent.

- Gun mic was in shot in places.

- A greater variation needs to be put in place for interviewing sequences.

- More even length for all interviewees.

- Poor graphic image.

- Expected package lengths were not what they were originally set as, which caused confusion.

- Presenter talking over people speaking in headline clips.

- Lack of sound in GVs.

- Jolty cuts in interview audio.

- Overuse of walking shots.

- Some voiceover soundtracks sounded echoey.

All in all, the bulletin was arguably the best yet with a professional and compelling bulletin having been produced, which would have appealed to all demographics.

WINOL Stats Update

We are now finally in the top million websites - according to the Alexa ranking - with WINOL. We are currently ranked at 996,112, which is an excellent position to be in and any further ranking improvements will be nothing short of exceptional; in the past three months we have moved up well over one million places. The sheer velocity at which the site ranking has gone up has been astronomical, and is really everything we could have hoped for given the reality of the situation i.e. we are a non-funded, student-based publication.

The reach percentage has improved again and has gone up 180% in the past month. The percentage of global users who visit winol.co.uk has now reached 0.00031% in the past month, which I know sounds very small and is difficult to put into perspective, but it is a grand improvement from 0.0001% which is where were at at the beginning of the semester.

Despite being able to draw many positives and improvements in traffic, there are numerous negatives which can be interpreted from Alexa with regards to WINOL's impact and significance. Firstly, the daily page views per user does not have appeared to have changed in the last three months, with viewers viewing just one page per visit (presumably the homepage). The fact that the traffic has increased but the number of page views remains unchanged implies that promotion and word of mouth is significant in bringing people to the site but perhaps the content or image of the site is rendering it as not worth staying on by users.

In addition to this, the bounce percentage has risen in the past month by 6% giving an overall percentage of 73% of single page views on WINOL. This again shows that people are checking the site out but immediately leaving, although it could mean that people are coming to the website and leaving soon after, it is far more likely that people are just viewing one page because the bulletin is embedded on the homepage. The fact that the site's traffic has increased, along with the amount of time people stay on the site, indeed suggests that people are coming for the advertised bulletin.

This brings me nicely on to the amount of time users are spending on the site. The time is now set at about 4 minutes per user. This is very good, but most people would visit the site to view the advertised bulletin which is 10 minutes in length. When you consider this, it could be interpreted that a lot of people are tuning out half way through the bulletin, but the fact we have retained their attention for that long is in itself impressive. Also, much of our traffic comes from the competition, which is only two minutes in length, so when you take an average from the bulletin, competition, and other articles, a good estimation would be around 4 minutes per user, so...

Search Engine Optimization has again soared, going up by 22% in the last month alone. This demonstrates that people are both searching for us, and, that where people are not, the fact that the traffic is going up gives us greater improved search optimisation. In addition to this, the top three search engine query increases which bring traffic to the site all have the word "winol" within them, which is excellent.

With regards to article hits, the competition still remains the most viewed, with features also dominating the top positions. The studio guest interview with Chesney Hawkes has brought us a significant amount of hits, and I am sure it will take the top spot away from the competition due to the fact that it's impact is so great already and considering it has only just been uploaded to the site. So a good point to take on board would be to increase the number of studio guests we have in the broadcast.

To conclude, even though the majority of analysis is highly subjective by it's very nature, the overall signs suggest that the site and it's success is moving in a positive direction.

Sunday 7 November 2010

WINOL: Week 5

Week five began with receiving our first complaint of this semester's WINOL. The complaint was from a studio guest who felt he was misrepresented in the final edit of a political debate. It seemed that what it all boiled down to was a lack of communication between those running the discussion and those participating in it. To me, it didn't really feel like anyone in particular was to blame, as those who made the production told the guests that the final piece would be edited, however, I digress. I had to email the person who put in the complaint to offer an apology on behalf of WINOL but the individual wasn't too forthcoming in accepting the apology; after all, he felt he had been massively misrepresented so.... It took an email from Chris to diffuse the situation, however I feel that if we asked the guest back for another studio chat, that he would respectfully decline.

The whole setup had a re-jig this week as Claire became the new News Editor. This gave a fresh feel to the newsroom, and freed up Kayleigh to become Entertainment Editor. To help Claire I gave her all the contact details of the beat reporters and Sports team, which then led to me reworking the news schedule and distributing it around the newsroom to give a sense of change with Claire as the new News Editor.

Again, as with previous weeks, I mostly just undertook my various Managing Editor responsibilities to ensure the smooth running of operations i.e. continuing to complain about the state the computers are in at the moment, changing the flyers to attract more viewers (include Chesney Hawkes).

On Wednesday we had a mass push on all flyers as we had the biggest guest we have ever had on WINOL. This meant producing and distributing around 400 flyers, and giving them out further than just the campus limits. After this I went to do Vision Mixing again for the second time. This went far more smoothly than last week as the reporters had left their packages long so as not to leave any black holes. However there were still problems with timings, which meant that when I mixed the vision the packages often didn't start for a split second and that looked rather unprofessional.

Next week I will discover what I can make from my contacting the Daily Echo...

Tuesday 2 November 2010

Media Law and Ethics: Privacy and Confidentiality

Privacy and Confidentiality in the UK is both good and bad. It is good in the sense that we have amazing privacy laws within the UK, which is in a sense quite reassuring for the public. However, for the budding journalist, the issue of privacy can often prove somewhat of an Everest obstacle.

List the notes.

Breach of Confidentiality And Secrecy
-State Secrets: This covers the Official Secrets Act. Problems for journalists are that they could inadvertantly divulge information about the military through filming etc, which could be used by an enemy.
-Commercial Secrets: Common Law Confidentiality.
-Privacy: Human Rights Act Section 8 'normal enjoyment of family life'.

Breach of Confidence is information which is unfairly passed on that:
-has the "necessary quality of confidence" - not just heresy.
-the individual would expect the person being told to keep to themselves.
-there was no permission to pass on.
-will cause detriment to the person who gave the information.
-If any of the above criteria is not met then there is no breach of confidence.

Gagging Clauses in Employment Contracts
If an individual is employed by someone or a company then they owe their employer a "duty of confidence". This stands even if there is no agreement to this within the contract, or even if there is no contract of employment.

An employee can be dismissed without compensation if they break a gagging clause. The public interest defence is very limited when complaints can be dealt with internally.

Professional Confidentiality
Information shared with a doctor should remain confidential unless the doctor has been given permission by the patient to divulge the confidential information. If an individual puts out confidential information about a person or a company then they are in 'breach of confidence'.

If a journalist publishes confidential information they have obtained then they have committed the crime of 'third party breach of confidence'.

Confidentiality in UK law is a residual right.

Section 8 of Human Rights Act (Family Life Privacy)

This issue of privacy tabloid journalism, particularly when pictures are taken of celebrities etc when they are unaware of their photo being taken. Journalists only have the right to publish persoanl photographs if there is consent given and/or the images are in the public interest (not to be confused with 'interest by the public').

In addition to this the act is also concerned with the publication of the details of anyone's family life.


Current Privacy issues in the media

Presently in the media, Google are under fire from British Privacy laws, and is the first company set to be fined under the laws, after it downloaded private passwords and emails. Google said they involuntarily collated payload data from unprotected wireless Internet networks while they sent round cars photographing residential areas for it's Street View Project.

Although Google alerted authorities when they realised what was happening, and insisted that they never intended to use any of the acquired information, the already privacy-intrusive scheme may possibly be fined, and although the fine will make no difference whatsoever to Google's finance, it's reputation will most certainly be dented.

The UK law criteria for breach of privacy are a bit shakey here, as no one has been directly identified through the "inadvertent" data collection, but there a firm grounds for missuse of private information.

WINOL BULLETIN REVIEW: WEEK 4

Despite initial signs pointing to there being no bulletin produced whatsoever, the team produced quite a plausible production - helped mainly by the quality of Andy's crime report. All the stories were quite strong and engaging yet there were massive problems, and tension was very high.

The most significant point was that many of the reporters had either not delivered, or their stories had fallen through at the last minute. The problem was that the production team was unaware of this and this slowed up and unnerved them (I was on vision mixing so I was in a prime position to witness this). Further problems were that the reporters weren't meeting their deadlines despite being prompted to hurry up, and although this did not turn out to hinder the production, I'm sure that leaving editing so close to the bulletin being put out will prove fatal if repeated.

There are still problems with the bulletin, but other than lack of content, problems are being reduced on a huge scale. However the problems which are not being resolved are the ones which appear week in week out:
- blackholes: both within the packages themselves and in the live production due to the fact that VTs haven't been left long so that gaps appear in the vision mixing between VTs and presenters.
-varying audio levels. Even if the levels were consistent within a package, the audio levels of each package are always different to the next or the volume of the presenter.

-audio between reporters and interviewees (in VTs) has no gaps and feels too continuous. This makes it feel like the viewer is being overloaded with information as there are no gaps and time to interpret the information.



Monday 1 November 2010

WINOL: week five running schedule

News

Lead Story
Lack of Graduate Careers (Julie Cordier)
Length: 1min 20secs VT
Deadline: Weds 12pm

Second Story
Rugby Bible Hate Crime (Andrew Giddings)
Length: 1min 10secs VT
Deadline: Weds 12pm

Third Story
Fireworks Undercover (Jack Courtez)
Length: 1min VT
Deadline: Weds 12pm

Fourth Story
Southampton Council redundancy payout (Stu Appleby)
Length: 1min VT
Deadline: Weds 12pm

Fifth Story
Bar End Parking Permit Extortion (Gareth Messenger)
Length:
Deadline: Weds 12pm

...And Finally
Winchester/Westminster Restaurant Award (Aimee Pickering)
Length: 1 min VT
Deadline: Weds 12pm


Sport

Eastleigh bounce back
Length: 40sec VT
Deadline: Tues 5pm

Winchester V Brading Town
Length: 30secs VT
Deadline: Tues 5pm

Women's Football
Length: 20secs VT
Deadline: Tues 5pm

Roundup

Graphic


POSSIBLE SOUTHAMPTON OLYMPIC TORCH STORY



REVISED WINOL SCHEDULE

MONDAY (planning day/ early writing)

09.30: Attend for de-briefing and planning sessions – read the papers


10.00: De-brief re: previous edition (Ed)
12.00: News desk - research prospects


02.15: Features conference (Feats Ed)


02.15: News and Sport conference (News Ed)

03.30: Main editorial conference (Ed)

04.30: 2nd Features conference (newsroom) (Feats Ed)


04.30: 2nd News conference (Feats Ed)


04.30: Management meeting (Learning Cafe) (Editor/Man Ed/ Prod Ed/ CH)

TUESDAY

Writing and early production day

WEDNESDAY (production day/ publication)

09.00: Editorial Conference – Editor, News Editor, Production Editor, (Chief Reporter) – sort out the running order for the daily bulletin.

10.00: Subbing news pages/creating pages
01.00: Deadline for finished news pages to chief sub

02.00: Subbing/creating features pages for next week (deadline 5pm)

02.00: Write/Edit News Index (deadline 4pm) NE/CS
02.00: Write/Edit Features Index (dline 4pm) FE/CS


02.00: Write/Edit Listings Index (deadline 4pm) AEE/CS

03.00: Write/Edit Front Page (deadline 5pm) Ed/CS

04.00: Live broadcast (on days when this is happening).



WINOL: Week 4


Week four of WINOL was fairly beneficial for me as far as Managerial Editing experience goes. As well as my usual administrative responsibilities being undertaken i.e. making sure that temporary news running orders and features schedules are circulated and made readily available, I also have been enjoying the position and freedom to promote WINOL to the best of my ability with the resources available to me.

On Monday morning I was in the news room early and then began to prepare notes for Catherine's debrief. We usually go through the bulletin before she gives her debrief, and today was particularly significant as I wasn't sure if she would make the debrief... Fortunately she did; I say fortunately as she is a far more confident public speaker than I, and I would have been the one who stepped in to give the talk.

In an attempt to further boost viewing figures and traffic hits, I began conferring with the Southern Daily Echo. They are very happy to allow the WINOL team to come down and discuss ways in which we can work together. At present I am in talks to getting the team to broadcast the bulletin from the Echo. It looks highly likely that we will be able to do this, however, the fact that we have many guest editors for the next for weeks means that we will have to postpone this until we are free.


A further promotional aspect I had to overcome this week was the fact that WINOL had - despite me giving all the relevant information - failed to be advertised by the hampshire.gov website. This site has a list of events on it that happen in Winchester, so listing our WINOL will certainly bring traffic to the site. It was seemingly difficult for them to put up something which was fairly easy - in my opinion - to do.



Standard Managerial roles I undertook this week included: publishing the WINOL stats, trying to resolve the issue of slow computers, help reassign a member of the team unhappy with their current role, enquire about PC advertising.

On request, I wrote a comment piece on the Guardian Awards, which I put up on the wall for students to read, as well as my two blogs, to encourage them to get involved and nominate themselves and others.

Production-wise, I helped Andy film his package this week, took part in the production of "Hot Topics", and for the bulletin I controlled the vision mixing.

At the end of the week Winchester News Online was now officially advertised on the Winchester City Council website.