....forget all the other things that have happened, even all the GCSE exam results. I remember than a few years ago, came out with 2B's 7C's and 1D so I did pretty well.
Anyway, this day is about me getting my first ever "real" byline (I have had bylines before but they don't really count as it was only my student newspaper).
While on work ex at my local newspaper I have received that prestigious honour of having my name attached to a story and I could not be happier.
It might not be a long piece, the best ever written but it is an serious debate and I love it. One small step at the moment but one huge leap on to the career ladder in terms of enhancing my portfolio, lets hope another one is possible to give me some reward for the effort I have been putting in.
So far I am loving my Newspaper placement and it might, and I do use a modal verb of uncertainty there, might have guided me towards the light of my future career path= Newspaper Journalism. There is still a long way to go on that front so only time will tell...
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Sunday, August 20, 2006
News-monkey
This blog of my journalism (and other) experiences was created so that I could look back in a few months/years and acknowledge the serious posts I have made on here and laugh at the posts that basically me talking shit.
I have become much more aware of the UK media surrondings and journalism as a commodity since I went to University and starting studying journalism. The course is great and so is the resources UCLan provide and direct me towards. But there is one particular site that has stood out for me. There all a load of journalism sites on the web and most are educational, informative and great resource tools.
However, one which I was pointed towards while doing my course is www.news-monkey.com = this is a site which is soon to be taken of the internet as it has not taken off in a year despite having 246 members. The problem is most members do not post so the "editor" has said that he is not paying to have the site on the net for only a few people. Personally, I have enjoyed posting on that site...I am a member of other journalism sites like journobiz and mediaUK but, while them sites are also great, the place to go if you want a bit of a laugh about journalism is news-monkey. They have given me a lot of help regarding my local newspaper placement (which starts tomorrow) and I believe the regular posters played a massive role in helping me achieve the placement as they guided me from not knowing what to do, to producing a letter with everything on it that would get me the placement.
There are always the memories though and I will remember them, the posters on there are a good bunch, when serious or laughable if this site reflects what I will be like when (if? hopefully..) I become a fully fledged journo then I will be a very happy man indeed.
I have become much more aware of the UK media surrondings and journalism as a commodity since I went to University and starting studying journalism. The course is great and so is the resources UCLan provide and direct me towards. But there is one particular site that has stood out for me. There all a load of journalism sites on the web and most are educational, informative and great resource tools.
However, one which I was pointed towards while doing my course is www.news-monkey.com = this is a site which is soon to be taken of the internet as it has not taken off in a year despite having 246 members. The problem is most members do not post so the "editor" has said that he is not paying to have the site on the net for only a few people. Personally, I have enjoyed posting on that site...I am a member of other journalism sites like journobiz and mediaUK but, while them sites are also great, the place to go if you want a bit of a laugh about journalism is news-monkey. They have given me a lot of help regarding my local newspaper placement (which starts tomorrow) and I believe the regular posters played a massive role in helping me achieve the placement as they guided me from not knowing what to do, to producing a letter with everything on it that would get me the placement.
There are always the memories though and I will remember them, the posters on there are a good bunch, when serious or laughable if this site reflects what I will be like when (if? hopefully..) I become a fully fledged journo then I will be a very happy man indeed.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Journalism
A few weeks ago I was feeling quite disillusioned with my career choice of journalism and began to wonder after only 1 year at University if it was really what I wanted to do but after the BBC placement and my soon to be Local newspaper placement my faith in what I am doing with 3 years of my life has been restored.
This post is a bit belated but I have had other things to do :) like losing half a stone at the gym!!
Anyways, why I think I want to go into journalism and be part of the news environment especially, hit me when I was watching the coverage of the "possible" terroirist attacks and the coverage of the airport security. Maybe it caught my eye more because it interrupted programmes on BBC 1 to become a news special or because my dad works at an airport.
Whatever it was, I was intrigued to find out more about what had gone on the night/early morning before I heard about this foiled plot. I found the technology of journalism to be very useful, as by using the red button and watching the news ticker (that must be the first time it has actually been useful) I was brought up-to-the-minute on the events and the security measures.
I am a little biased becuase my account goes off Sky and BBC only but they more than satisfied my Uses and Gratifications so I had no need to change to any other channel. In this society we live in of immediacy we wanted to know everything about what was happening all across the country.
That is what really thrills me about journalism or at least the techinlogy journalism implements...while I was reading the Mirror Newspaper I had bought that morning (which, obviously, had nothing on the foiled plot) I was being kept as updated as possible by reporters at Heathow, Glasgow, Stanstead, Manchester etc and "experts" in the studio. News journalism works so fast and facts have to checked and stories confirmed faster than ever to get the first break of a big news story but to watch all the events unfold really give me a feel of thats what I want to do, never knowing what is coming next and how quickly preparations are made to deal with what is coming next.
For now at least, this is one student Journalist that really is drawn to the news media.
This post is a bit belated but I have had other things to do :) like losing half a stone at the gym!!
Anyways, why I think I want to go into journalism and be part of the news environment especially, hit me when I was watching the coverage of the "possible" terroirist attacks and the coverage of the airport security. Maybe it caught my eye more because it interrupted programmes on BBC 1 to become a news special or because my dad works at an airport.
Whatever it was, I was intrigued to find out more about what had gone on the night/early morning before I heard about this foiled plot. I found the technology of journalism to be very useful, as by using the red button and watching the news ticker (that must be the first time it has actually been useful) I was brought up-to-the-minute on the events and the security measures.
I am a little biased becuase my account goes off Sky and BBC only but they more than satisfied my Uses and Gratifications so I had no need to change to any other channel. In this society we live in of immediacy we wanted to know everything about what was happening all across the country.
That is what really thrills me about journalism or at least the techinlogy journalism implements...while I was reading the Mirror Newspaper I had bought that morning (which, obviously, had nothing on the foiled plot) I was being kept as updated as possible by reporters at Heathow, Glasgow, Stanstead, Manchester etc and "experts" in the studio. News journalism works so fast and facts have to checked and stories confirmed faster than ever to get the first break of a big news story but to watch all the events unfold really give me a feel of thats what I want to do, never knowing what is coming next and how quickly preparations are made to deal with what is coming next.
For now at least, this is one student Journalist that really is drawn to the news media.
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