WINOL Bulletin 16.03.11

This week Charlotte Clarke presented, she did very well. She is the editor of WINOL however, today as she was presenting, Karen Purnell who is Managing Editor, took on Charlotte's role. During rehersals there was a bit of confusion between who was in charge on running the bulletin while in the studio. Justina is director however this was not always the case. It was made clear to everyone that while in the studio, the director is to take charge and they are the decision maker. Everyone should follow what the director says, and should trust their judgement.
Within one of the links, it was said '...they are doing everything they can to help' however the pictures did not show this. The script writer and the reporters need to start working closer in order to be able to write relevant links that are going to capture the audience and encourage them to watch the whole bulletin. The headlines are crucial, but we are still finding them very difficult to get right.
It was said that the Barhain story was not localised for our audience. The previous week, we were able to to link our interviewee with a Winchester student, however this week while we were aiming to do a follow on story, we did not make the story local and as a local news station it is vital that we do this for all stories.
We had strong stories this week, with interviews from Japanese students telling of their emotions following the earthquake and tsunami, and the Barhain interview. Angus stated that the joy riders story was out of place and should not have followed the two top stories this week, although it was a good story in itself.