Journalism Now and WINOL Review!

The Journalism now module is pretty much happening, well, now. We've had our first berating of not reading enough newspapers, enough to scare me into reading newspapers every second of the day, because well, reading newspapers = passing our course is the word on the street. Along with journalism now we had our very first "news clinic" which is pretty much our seminar groups being assigned a certain newspaper to read and then start to talk about what we've read in it while answering questions from our lecturers and so on.

Another thing from our journalism now lecture is that we have to review Winchester's online news feature "WINOL" this is Winchester News Online. So after watching through WINOL I have formed the following critique, sorry if im being harsh guys, but im pretty sure you won’t find it all bad! *looks awkwardly away* For the sake of simplicity I’ll just bullet point stuff out

• The intro is pretty cool, though sometime the music does interrupt but thats just down to the editing really
• The majority of the stories were very well reported I found, the one that I liked the most was about the laser machines being implemented into Southampton, insofar as the report was well spoken and well informed
• Some stories seemed a little unprepared, what with them having to look back and forth from camera to their notes - it kind of detracted from the story cause you would notice this quite easily
• I firmly believe that the sports section needs to be shorted, but this is because I have pretty much zero interest in sports and find it utterly dull, so really don’t listen to this point :)
• Some of the animations and transitions were very laggy, they just seemed a bit off
• Pretty much loved the animation in the whole WINOL Life thing, was a very nice touch
• Now, im sure it was just a small slip up but while the anchor was doing the all important sign-off, the music came in too early and interrupted it
• Sorry if im being too harsh, im being purposefully picky - you guys don’t want me to lie to you right? Didn’t think so, however, all in all it was done very well, there were definitely more good things than bad and it was an improvement from last week.

Good job guys and keep up the good work, I only hope that when we start WINOL we do nearly as good! With that, bye and stuff x