Peter Worthington has had an amazing life. And his obituary, which he wrote himself, certainly has an arresting opening line.
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...they can make a petition to send him back here, can we make a petition to block it? 64,000 signatures? It can't be far off 64 million people who don't want him back here.
1330 it is.
Richard
We finish at 11 tomorrow so if it's possible to do it earlier I don't think we'd mind :)
You're now on Team A, Katie.
If I have missed anyone else, please let me know.
Richard
Don't even go there, in my head I invented the nosewarmer and Sumosalad, then found out they'd already been done. Wah!
Haha totally Jess ;) hey it's never too late! Maybe we could set up our own media empire?! :p
Danielle we should have done business ;)
We told you Buzz was a good name Ian ;) it was clearly because our site was so pretty too! Well done to us. Does this mean you're going to buy us all a drink? Haha
I'm not on here :( sad face
Advice noted :)
This is a bit picky, but I think the word "accusing" is a really unfortunate way of putting it in this context. Phrases like that can actually reinforce stereotypes - homosexuality is not a crime (anymore).
A French accent on the other hand...
It says comment field is required, but that ^ was it, I have no further observations.
I propose a self-regulatory but independent body not backed by statuate or government but still underwritten in law.
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Congratulations, you lot.
The question is... who is going to hold all that collective power to account?
Mwaahahahaha!
The list has now been published.
I never try to second guess the Gods of Journalism, lest they wreak mighty vengeance upon me.
Well I haven't heard yours so you can't criticise mine :)
Well, we figured out we're in groups of three and by process of elimination the next editors should be Scott, James and Ferouz OR Jess, Agatha and me but of course the 'Journalism Gods' might decide differently :)
Well I haven't heard yours so you can't criticise mine :)
Well, we figured out we're in groups of three and by process of elimination the next editors should be Scott, James and Ferouz OR Jess, Agatha and me but of course the 'Journalism Gods' might decide differently :)
I predict Danielle, Jess and Agatha!!!
Your evil laugh needs a bit of work.
I'll believe you've figured it out if you can predict one of the editors for the online news day in December before I post it on the site tomorrow.
Ian you should know we've figured out your system muhaha
Can we meet to do this mock 1330 to 1530 please in the big newsroom?
That way you will have a few minutes to export footage before your regulation exam.
Richard
I wanted to make some observations on last week's television newsday.
This is also for the benefit of the third year students making tomorrow's programme. Those students could look at these programmes. See how well the second years did while working for experienced editors (me and Tim).
Both teams were in fact helped enormously by the fact that last Thursday we had a national news story unfolding on the day. So we could visit the polling stations and film those voting in the local Police Commisioners elections. That really works.
I was proud of the way our team worked so well together and I think it showed in the final programme.
There were highlights in both broadcasts. Some stick in the mind: the great sources in the Scarey Guy story. The golf piece, which was an excellent way to do a new angle on a story that had been in the national and regional press -- with excellent access. There were lots of nicely shot pictures shot from a tripod in both programmes. Most interviewees were correctly framed. The writing was often direct, clear and simple. Incidentally, judging by our rehearsals, Bill would have done a great two way, had there been time, on the Fort Amhurst piece.
Some stories ended up being darker than they deserved when played out. We have addressed this. However, a couple of stories were shot too dark because the person hadn't opened the iris on the camera.
On occasion, when an item didn't work as well as it could have, it was because the reporter didn't liaise closely enough with their editor. It really helps to show an editor a proper cue and a full script with all interviewees written out. Combined with a rough cut of pictures, this is all an editor needs.
Our team wrote their draft cues very early: soon after conference. You need to change them later but if both editor and reporter are clear about why they are doing the story, you can start writing the script early.
That's it! Well done both teams last week. There was some very good work.
Richard
Actually we are look at how to make these timings work, Kieran. At the moment we are running straight on to the mock Regulation exam, yes. The timetable is very full and I want to give people more practice for the TV exam.
Richard
Does this mean we still have the regulation mock straight after this one at 4pm?
#Nick4President
I'll be behind you all the way Nick!
Also I really would urge everyone to get involved with this - it's really important that Medway is recognised and we get the treatment we deserve