Magazine - Critical Reflection

To begin my research for the two magazine spreads I began searching the two places in which news, and events travels fast: Facebook and Twitter. I came across an awareness day and began to look into any upcoming awareness days or weeks in which to write an article upon. I discovered Foster Care Fortnight was due to commence from the 14^th-27^th May 2012.

Writing about an awareness day appealed to me, as I wanted to not only raise awareness but also to obtain a case study specific to the fortnight in order to being the campaign to life.

Having the dates set in stone I decided to contact the Foster Network to request as much information as they could offer about the fortnight and any facts and figures regarding fostering within the UK. I decided to write this article in such a way as to deliver as much information about the fortnight, with also a case study from someone who has not only been a foster child but who is also a foster carer now. I obtained this case study through contacting Foster Network. Having been unsuccessful in obtaining a first hand account from someone who had or is currently being fostered I was able to obtain a case study from Foster Network. By including this within the article, the reader is more likely to respond to the figures displayed throughout the article as they relate to someone who has experienced being fostered.

This article is set out with the majority of the text written in standard columns, and offsetting the case study to emphasise it. Information of how to become a foster carer was displayed in a text box and written in bullet points to ensure the reader had clear and concise information. In addition to the text boxes, I used the technique, ‘pullout quote’ for the figures relating to the number of foster carers needed currently. This is highly effective in drawing the reader’s attention to important aspects of an article. This technique was influenced by numerous ‘real life’ stories throughout Chat, Take a Break and Closer.
　

Foster Network sent the pictures I have used following a request to use both the pictures and the logos for Foster Network and Foster Care Fortnight - permission was given for all pictures. I decided to use an image of a boy alone looking quite upset, as this portrays the child being unhappy at home and reinforces the awareness campaign. The second image I chose to use was of a boy with a foster carer. Showing both the boy and the carer happy with each other shows the power of having a loving carer – again enforcing the awareness campaign.
　

This article is suitable for a magazine such as Woman and Home. This magazine targets successful women with positive outlooks. Presenting such women with an opportunity to begin fostering would be beneficial to the awareness campaign of the fortnight. [1]
　

The second article was based on a student teacher having the opportunity to teach in The Gambia for two weeks. This article is in the style of a confessional interview. I discovered this by talking to people in and around the university who explained how six Primary Education students had taken a trip to The Gambia to teach for two weeks. I subsequently contacted Laura Crane to request an interview. The interview took place in Laura’s home and was recorded on a dictaphone. I transcribed the interview and found it included many strong aspects which were needed for this type of story. The interview included emotions, thoughts and experiences which are key to writing an confessional interview in the first person. I wanted to obtain strong quotes to illustrate the experience clearly to the reader.
　

The article focuses both on the experience of a country contrasting England with regards to our wealth, as well as a student developing her experiences to benefit the children she will teach and consequently aiding her future career. The main aspect which portrays the experience of the country were the pictures obtained following the interview. These images were taken by Laura whilst in Gambia and consent was given to use the pictures alongside the article. I decided to use a picture of Laura whilst with the pupils, the students undertaking a task set by Laura – described within the article – and a picture of the pupils together as a class.
　

This article was structured to firstly present emotions prior to the trip before divulging into the experience and explaining it from a first hand account.
　

This article is suitable for Glamour Magazine. Although Glamour focuses on current events related to beauty, fashion, health and relationships it encourages women to succeed in the workplace. [2] This includes articles explaining how to secure a desired job following graduation. This article is very much representative of young women completing their university degree with the experience and drive to want to have a successful career.
　

The Foster Care Fortnight article could have been further improved with a case study that I had discovered. Being able to interview someone myself regarding their experiences whilst being fostered could have brought more emotion to the article and gained more awareness of fostering which is the essence of the awareness fortnight.
　

The Gambia interview I feel could have been more indulgent into Laura’s thoughts about people from under privileged countries. Because Laura mentioned the stereotypes of Africa generally it would have been much stronger if I would have been more inquisitive into her thoughts and stereotypes before and after the trip – making it a stronger confessional interview.

Magazine Spread - The Gambia

Magazine Spread - Foster Care Fortnight

Land Documentary - Farming and Spring Equinox

Claire Lomas and I have completed our Land project based around farming in Hampshire and the Spring Equinox.
This five minute piece will be editing together with a number of other short documentaries, all based around land, to create a full Land documentary.

Land Documentary

One of the final assignments we are due to undertake before finishing university is the production of the 'Land' documentary. This will be produced by the third years on the journalism course, all focussing on different aspects of land - housing, farming, national parks etc - which will then be edited together over the summer to result in a full documentary. The previous third years collectively produced Coastlines.

The Land documentary will be based around the Radio 2 'Radio Ballads' - having and interview explaining a certain topic e.g. Travellers, with folk music in the background.

Claire and I are focussing on farming - detailing the Spring season, officially beginning tomorrow, 20th March 2012. We will be looking into the equinox, which is the tilt of the Earth's axis being neither toward or away from the Sun. The aim of our documentary is to explore the preparation for Spring as well as between Spring and Summer, and the extent to which farmers are effected by the change.

We have obtained permission from the record label of an American band to use a song which is very applicable to our focal point. During the edit we will decide whether to use just the instrumental version of the folk song or the original version - we have permission for both.

Today was our first day of filming in which we ventured towards Alresford to shoot establishing shots and to find a suitable place to film the sunrise tomorrow morning. The sun will rise at 6.00am meaning an early start with of course flasks of tea!

We have a number of farms we will be attending this week and next, which we will be looking to film not only the standard practices within farms, but also an interview.

WINOL - Features final week

Features aren't going to end this semester on a positive. Justina and I decided to cancel WINOL Life this week due to lack of packages and our guest not responding to our invitiation to come in for the show.

In preparation for Maria Milano coming in, 3 fashion packages were going to be produced and our last WINOL Life was going to be a fashion special. M.M was unable to make it but I was still planning on maintaining the fashion theme for the show as long as we could get a relevant guest in.

Zoe, Becky and Cara were due to create fashion packages however these have all either fallen through or have not been produced at all. Zoe may be able to complete hers within the next week, but due to personal circumstances this was unable to meet the deadline.

The guest we were hoping to come in was an Editor so we were going to generalise the show to follow the same format as the previous three episodes instead of a fashion special, however we only had two packages to include in the show, Buddy's restaurant review and the latest WINOL Games Review Show. Another idea was to include both these packages and have a summary of all the past packages from this semester, however they've all been shown in the previous episodes so this wouldn't have brought anything new to the show. If we'd have had the fashion packages and a music piece we would have had a good show to produce - without these however the show would have dropped in quality, leading us to decide to cancel the last WINOL Life.

This week, What's On and WINOL Games - Christmas special are due to be produced and possibly Zoe's fashion piece is due to be completed.

Features have done very well this semester however in the last week motivation has decreased causing the amount of packages, regularly being produced, to drop.

30th Nov Union Strikes Coverage

In preparation for Winchester News Online's all-day live coverage of the Union Strikes on the 30th November 2011, Claire and I produced and edited three new sequences which are to be used throughout the day. We created a new opening sequence:

A 5 second opening sequence:

And a 1 minute countdown: (To be used after ad-breaks or if we have technical issues)

INUK Conference 25-26th November 2011

Guest speakers – Keith Hyatt and Michael O’Brien:

Rachel Manning was murdered in December 2000. Rachel was the girlfriend of Barri White – friend of Keith. On the 9^th December 2000, Barri and Rachel had been to a nightclub, but had both gone home separately – Barri having gone to Keith’s. After being unable to get hold of Rachel, Barri assumed she had gone straight home. Three days later Rachel’s body was discovered.

Both Keith and Barri were arrested on suspicion of murder – leading to Barri being convicted of the murder of Rachel Manning and Keith being found guilty of disposing Rachel’s body and sentenced to 5 years imprisonment.

Due to the interest BBC’s Rough Justice had in the case, new forensic evidence was produced and resulting in both their convictions being overturned. Keith served 5 years in prison – in which time his business collapsed, his house was burgled meaning he lost all person possessions and he had nothing left on his release.

Even after this time, he is still yet to receive compensation from the government on the grounds that he could have been guilty of the crime. He is now a broken man who has very little in his life, but it is due to the determination and help from his parents – who he now cares for, full-time – that his innocence was proved.

The second guest speaker, Michael O’Brien, was part of the Cardiff Newsagent Three. Mike’s speech was very different to Keith’s due to the differing personalities. Mike was a typical ‘lad’, very cheeky and did used to get into mischief, but it was a totally different story when he was arrested on suspiscion of murder.
Mike and two others were convicted of the murder and robbery of Philip Saunders. It was due to his co-accused Darren Hall being a pathological liar which, led to him making a confession for the crimes they did not commit. During the years Mike was imprisoned he began learning areas of law with the aim of proving serious breaches of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 by the South Wales Police, and by doing so was able to take action against them. They won their appeal and were released and were given the biggest pay-out in British legal history - £1.1 million due to their civil action against the South Wales Police. Hearing from both Keith and Mike puts it all into perspective and gives you an insight into what they went through and how they’ve coped.

The Legal Barriers to Overturning an Alleged Wrongful Conviction:

Dr Michael Naughton - founder of the Innocence Project - discussed the routes to take to overturn a wrongful conviction.
Cases can go through the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and the CCRC – Criminal Cases Review Commission. The CCRC refers cases, which have already been through the appeal system and have not succeeded.

The CCRC was established because public had little confidence in the appeal system. Michael Naughton said the CCRC is not concerned with innocence, it is concerned with technical errors within legal proceedings.

S23 Criminal Appeal Act 1968 explains that there is a need for fresh evidence. If something has never been used in the previous legal proceedings, it should be allowed to be used within the appeal case as ‘fresh evidence’.

A case that was explained in detail was the Neil Hurley case:

http://www.innocent.org.uk/cases/hurley.html

Innocence projects attempt to determine whether claims of innocence are truthful or not and cannot be confined to the existing rules of the CCRC and the criminal appeals system because they can fail the innocent. This means our work – as innocence projects – is as much about trying to change the law as it is about trying to overturn cases through law.

Mark George – QC:

"If you can’t find a document in 30 seconds you might as well not have it."

This session was guidance on organising and using documents in the most productive ways.

- Sort the file.

– Index the file.

– Flag up important documents.

– Keep records of all work.

– Correspondence file.

It was advised that we all familiarise ourselves with the appeal [s] so we are aware of what have been ruled on previously giving us better grounds to look for fresh evidence.

HOLMES – Home Office Large Major Enquiry System – was explained in detail giving us more of an insight into what official documents created within HOLMES should include.

Six-Step Approach in Investigating a Claim of Innocence:

- Ensuring retention of evidence and case papers

- Understanding how and why the jury convicted the defendant

- Going beyond the trial document

- Investigating the evidence that led to conviction

- Proving innocence through DNA

- Making an application to the CCRC

Undertaking Fieldwork Investigations: Dr. Eamonn O’Neil – Investigative Journalist

The CCRC carry out desk-top reviews – it is highly advised that innocence projects go to the scene of the crime because:

- It puts paperwork into action,

- Forces the in-the-field comparison,

- Shed lights on recorded events,

- Creates new location leads at/near locus,

- And forces us to re-interpret the case.

Why should IPs visit crime scenes?

- Check evidence gathering,

- Make sense of material,

- Create fresh and relative narrative,

- Understand forensic processes that occurred,

- Track down fresh leads,

- Compare paper to the locus.

Features - W/O 21st Nov

This week, features due to be produced were:

- Games Review - Lifestyle special
- Restaurant Review - Buddy's Diner
- Music - Interview with Alex Eaden-Smith - Marketing Manager

These were the packages all due to be featured in WINOL Life.

The Games Review - Lifestyle Special - was not suitable to be broadcast. It was advised by myself and Chris to get an expert to at least gain some knowledge of the lifestyle of gamers, rather than just assumptions. The package did not make sense, it was a review of the latest game release Skyrim, tied in with the lifestyle of gamers, i.e. not eating healthily while playing games.
Having started the feature with searching the internet, nothing came of it, instead both Graham and Ewan began drinking raw eggs, raw brocoli and fruit, while reviewing the game. It wasn't stated where they were advised to eat these foods if anywhere, and although amusing, it wasn't clear. There was no summary or conclusion so it was not clear what they got/learnt from eating those foods while gaming, or what they didn't achieve if there was a goal, it was more a mock up of healthy eating, but not based on anything they'd read/been advised.
Due to the lack of angle and unclear presentation, I've asked if this can be re-edited with a clear angle. Good idea, but wasn't clear enough in the production. We could not use this in WINOL Life, we used their most recent Games Review Show.

The Restaurant Review - Buddy's Diner - This was Becky and Zoe's second review in which they followed a similar format to that of the Giraffe review. This one followed more of the review criteria so creating the balance of postives and negatives, forming a clear view of the restaurant.
When editing though, their sound failed and their voices were echoed. We couldn't use this in WINOL Life either due to the techical issues, so we used Giraffe Restaurant to introduce the first of the reviews, stating that this one will be available soon. To overcome the technical issues, I have advised that they record voiceovers for the whole piece in a similar way that they did in their first review.

Music Interview - Alex Eaden-Smith -
David's music interview was with the marketing manager for Coldplay, Tinie Tempah and others. This is very strong for WINOL, such a big name. The whole interview is 6 minutes, Dave re-versioned this for WINOL Life to 1 minute. We were able to show the guest editor this which was relevant to her field as Entertainments Editor to which she was able to discuss interviews techniques and names.

WINOL Life:
This weeks WINOL Life was the best show so far, in my opinion. It was very strong, and it makes such a difference not having a rehearsal with the guest in the studio as it creates a stronger 'chat-show' feel to it, rather than it being very scripted. The presenters, Hannah and George, did very well, ensuring they didn't stick to the script word for word and asking follow-on questions to the guest.

Our guest this week was Lorelei Reddin - Entertainments Editor from the Daily Echo.
Lorelei was very good on the show, giving us constructive critiscism good advise.

30th Nov - All day Strikes Coverage

Next Wednesday 30th November, WINOL is broadcasting live coverage on the strikes which are to be carried out due to changes to public sector pension schemes. Unite, Unison, NUT - National Union of Teachers are a few of those who will be striking.

In preparation for this day, we have cancelled WINOL this week, giving the reporters time to prepare their packages etc.

On the Day:
- 4 presenters - Hannah, Jake, Cara and Aimee
- Live OBs - London, Southampton, Winchester and Basingstoke

- In studio guests
- Team of production - in studio, producing the all day coverage

Within our latest meeting it was advised that we have a standard format for the show and to produce it in 15 minutes slots. By doing this we will all begin to understand the format and in times of stress this will be one less aspect to worry about. Every 15 minutes we will be showing adverts due to the equipments we use to broadcasting live.

Throughout the programme will we have presenters each alternating every hour or so, giving constant updates about the day; packages pre-recorded and edited to play throughout; live OBs from the 4 areas, using skype; and in-studio guests. We are aiming to be on air from 12-6pm (later if anything continues).

I will be in the studio all day on the Wednesday, helping to produce the show. As discussed n preparation for the show, Claire and I will be creating a new opening sequence, which will be played on the hour every hour; a shorter version of the opening sequence to be played after the adverts; and a 60 second countdown which can be used in the events of technical issues so the audience know the programme will be broadcast again in 60 seconds.

Aspects of this may still change.

Features - Comment Column

Diary of a Winchester Lady is our very strong aspect of our written content on WINOL. Poppy Murray is the columnist for this, and has provided all the content for this comment column. Once the column was up and running and articles were being produced on a regular basis, I thought it would be a lot better to have all these columns on one page of the site. This is not only better layout for the website, but also our audience will see all the articles written for this column. Through this, Poppy will begin to build her own audience who know to come to the site for her content. This will also be enforced now that we have a cartoon image of her specifically for the site. I was able to get this through a contact from Winchester Fashion Week. This was produced free of charge, on the basis that we accredit them.

Poppy’s articles are very strong and all have a clear angle. Each week she emails me her draft copies of articles and I give her feedback on ways to improve each piece. Poppy has fully understood the key aspects of a column piece and has been demonstrating that through her written pieces.

This week Poppy has written an article entitled: ‘Would you Rather’. This piece explores the values and viewpoints of young people and what they would rather do given two choices. She ends with bulletin points of advice from her own point of view, as a young person, which are amusing and will appeal to our audience. The only issue I had with the piece was a spelling error of Baz Luhrmann, singer of ‘Wear Sunscreen’. If this hadn’t of been noticed this would have been a fatal error, and just goes to prove the importance of editing, and checking your facts.

Coming up Poppy is to continue with her comment column as well as producing two fashion articles. One will take on the research of transgender modelling, and the other the explore current trends within the UK and looking into the views of International students on these trends. This is all in preparation for Maria Milano coming in, and will also give Poppy an area to cover, which she hasn’t looked into yet.

This weekend, also, Poppy attended the Ideal Home Show Christmas Exhibition, of which she has taken the angle of hypothetically having £1000 to spend to make-over her student room.

Poppy has produced a lot of content for the site so far, and it is all of good quality. The only thing I would like is for Poppy to produce 2/3 articles a week, increasing content with her article and general articles for features also.

Features

Above is a plan for the next 4 weeks so you all know exactly what is coming up.
We only have a couple of weeks left for features this semester. Features are to continue running alongside 30th Nov.

Coming up we will have:

- Games Review - Ewan
- Restaurant Review - Zoe and Becky
- Behind the Scenes of WINOL - Cara & Jake
- Men's fashion - Cara
- Fashion (TBC) - Becky
- Fashion (TBC) - Zoe
- Restaurant Review & Christmas Fair - Angle TBC - Becky and Zoe
- Diary of a Winchester Lady, aiming to produce at least 2 each week - Poppy
- Fashion written piece - Poppy

What's On is not being produced this week, having discussed with Cara the lack of events this week, she will focus on the Behind the Scenes of WINOL and her men's fashion package.

This week I made the decision to postpone WINOL Life to this week due to lack of packages produced. I was not willing to produce a show with features already shown, so this Tuesday we are due to film WINOL Life with the features Editor from the Daily Echo.

Tuesday 29th Nov, we are due to have Maria Milano - Editor of InStyle website - coming in and featuring on the show. This show is going to be a fashion special, to which Becky, Zoe and Cara are all producing video fashion features, and Poppy is doing a written article for the site also.

Tuesday 6th December will be the last deadline for features this semester, so you all need to work towards this date for your last packages.

On Monday we will discuss everything for the next few weeks, and discuss all angles for all features due to be produced.

Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Media Law

The Freedom on Information Act 2000 allows citizens to request public authorities to disclose information, which would not otherwise be published. This Act is very useful to journalists, as it gives them the power to uncover information about the way in which we are governed and communicate this information to the public. In some cases, that public authority won’t hold the information being requested, or the request exceeds the maximum cost limits for free information.

‘Information’ is defined under the Act as ‘information recorded in any form’. Once information has been requested, the public authority has 20 days to respond to the request either giving the information requested or stating why they are unable to obtain it.

The information should be disclosed free of charge, unless obtaining the information costs most than £600 – national government departments – or £450 – local councils and others.

A current example which we broadcast on WINOL was Julie's FOI story uncovering the truth about the number of local police officers to have had convictions themselves.

Under the Act, a public authority is known as:

- National government departments and ministries,
- House of Commons and House of Lords,

- The Armed forces

- The National Health Service

- Universities, schools and colleges.

The UK’s security and intelligence agencies – MI5, MI6 and GCHQ are exempt from the Act, meaning they are not required to respond to FOI requests. The Courts and Tribunals are also exempt.

These are a few examples, which, under the Act are not considered public authorities:

- Housing Associations

- Charities

- Private Prisons

- Members of Parliament.

There are a number of factors all to do with the public interest, and which all should encourage public authorities to disclose information:

• Furthering the understanding and participation in the public debate of issues of the day.
  
  – Promoting accountability and transparency in the spending of public money.
  
  – Promoting accountability and transparency by the public authorities for decisions taken by them.
  
  – Allowing individuals and companies to understand decisions made by public authorities affecting their lives.
  
  – Bring to light information affecting public health and safety.

In some situations, the public authority may withhold the information requested on the grounds of public interest. This is known as Qualified Exemptions. If withholding information has a greater public interest than releasing it to the public then the public authority can withhold the information.

Sources in relation to journalists are very important. Journalists have a moral obligation to protect confidential sources and information. This was stated in the Press Compaints Commission - Code of Practice.

Features

After six weeks of this semester, I am very pleased with the progress features has made. We have at least six regular features giving us constant new and updates features, which is exactly how a publication should be run. Having a regular Tuesday deadline means that we always have new features on the site ready for when the weekly bulletin and news stories are on the site. This is essential for a publication, because, if someone visits the site, in which the content has not been updated then it is very unlikely that they will return.

We are now in the middle of creating a number of restaurant reviews as well as game reviews. To my knowledge we have never had continual reviews before so this is a bringing WINOL to a new level within features especially as we have two different reviews each relating to separate aspects of our audience.

Having a regular comment piece is also a very strong aspect of our features page. Although I would prefer ‘A Diary of a Winchester Lady’ to have it’s own page with all of Poppy’s articles on it. This would be much more effective as we have a cartoon image of her specifically because the comment pieces are all produced by Poppy under the same title. It makes sense from a production point of view to have all of these articles on one page, as it is more direct for our audience when they visit the website.

WINOL Life is really starting to become a valuable asset to WINOL features. Not only does it gives us another production, but it also allows to invite outside guests who are specific to features, in to be on the show. This is a very good opportunity for all the feature writers to gain feedback as well as making WINOL more popular to editors in the area. We have two more episodes of WINOL Life to produce before the end of this semester. For our final episode, we have Maria Milano, Editor of InStyle website, coming in again who will appear on the show. For this show I would like to make it a fashion special due to the background of our guest. It will be very good for the feature writers to stem out and produce a different type of feature than the ones, which are regularly being produced.

In previous years, features have taken a while to ‘take-off’ this year however, the feature writers were all aware of the deadlines they had to meet and have all been very dedicated to producing content each week. Although we do have regular features each week such as, restaurant and games reviews, What’s On and our comment column, this does not mean that features are boring. It means our audience will be aware of the content we produce and will be inclined to visit the website again to see any continual features – such as the reviews.

Media Law - Confidentiality & Privacy

People have the right to keep secrets, so long as the secret is not against the public interest. People also have the right to pass on these secrets to others with the expectation that they will not pass them on to others.

Doctors and lawyers are main examples of people who are under obligation to keep information private. This information will regard to their patients or clients, and has no right to be passed on to any third party.

If information is disclosed to a journalist from a third party, or a journalist comes into possession of confidential information, they may find themselves under a legal duty to respect the confidence of that matter.

A person who passes on information to a journalist may have received it confidentially. If the person who the confidence belongs to, discovers that information has been disclosed about them before a paper has been published or a programme has been broadcast, then that person can get a temporary injunction prohibiting publication of the confidential material.

Breach of Confidence:

A person is in breach of confidence if they pass on information which;

- Has the necessary quality of confidence – important information and

• Was provided in ‘circumstances imposing an obligation’ (Reasonable person would know to keep the matter secret); and
• There was no permission to pass on the information; and

It must be very damaging to the person of whom the information was released.

All 4 elements of this test must be proven.

Privacy:

Article 8 of the Human Right Acts states:

‘Everyone has the right to respect his/her private and family life, his home and his correspondence.’

There is an expectation that the general public is entitled to know about the private lives of celebrities/people in the public eye. Many people view sport people as role models, and therefore should behave in an appropriate way towards their fans etc. Just because someone is in the public eye does not mean, private information about them should be disclosed. Some matters are in the public interest, in which case it is viewed that the public should know about the current matter.

Just because someone has the ability to take a photograph on their camera, does not mean they have the right to disclose it in publications, allowing a large number of other people to view it as well. You need permission from that person to publish that image/information.

Consent is vital in journalism.

If there is no consent and no valuable public interest then do not publish the story.

Public Interest:

This is generally the welfare of the public. If something has been kept secret about someone in the public eye, and this matter will affect the way in which the public view or act towards this person then it can be said that the matter is in the public interest. If something will prevent the public from being misled by an action or statement of an individual or organisation, then the matter is in the public interest.

WINOL Life - 1st Nov

The second episode of WINOL Life was of a much better quality. We all had a clear idea of all the aspects of the show, and our treatment of the guest was much better also. We had time to speak to her, off cameras, and show her the packages in the newsroom without the stress of watching them for the first time and everyone watching her.

Including headline clips enhances the show considerably, giving an insight as to what is coming up.

Our guest was Elizabeth Barnett - Editor of Hampshire Life Magazine. Elizabeth was very helpful and gave very valuable advice. Even though her background is predominantly written, she made a clear effort to give feedback and criticism on our video features.
One point she suggested was that it may have been better for Zoe and Becky to have localised their Yoga Show feature to Winchester - coming from a local magazine she feels it is very important to keep your audience close in mind. I hadn't suggested this to them as I had it in mind that they were going to feature in the package, trying yoga themselves. This would have improved the feature as it is always much more interesting to watch presenters trying an event, rather than hearing about the event. If this was the case then localising it would not have been a key issue, as the focus would have been on both Becky and Zoe, and the angle of the piece would have been along the lines of, yoga for beginners e.g.
In the original plan for this week's WINOL Life, was to include the Giraffe restaurant review package. This had to be taken out due to problems noticed by Chris. I hadn't made these points key issues because I know that both Becky and Zoe are preparing to produce more restaurant reviews therefore it would not have seemed as though that restaurant was being advertised by them, as they would have been reviewing more than one restaurant. We have taken this down from the site now, and I have advised Becky and Zoe to re-edit this piece to include a voice over which includes prices and if any, criticisms - as this is what a review is meant to include. Once this has been re-edited and I have seen that it has all the key elements of a review, we will wait until we have at least two restaurant reviews and then publish both on the site at the same time.

Having over 1,000 views for WINOL Life for the first episode, we are aiming to achieve this every week.
Sportsweek bring in their own audience, however we are bringing in a different audience again, giving WINOL a much broader gender audience than we have had in previous years. In order to achieve this number on a fornightly basis, we all need to be posting the site on relevant Facebook pages, Twitter and relevant YouTube channels. This is a the only way to bring in our audience, they will not just fall in our laps.
With regard to reversioning, please all continue to reversion as I have been advising since week 1. This is a key skill for each of you, as well as giving the News Editor packages to use as backups. It is very good to have a tease of your package on the end of the bulletin. This should be an aim of everyone's.

Features are doing very well. In just 6 weeks we have a good selection of content on the site, offering a range of topics/categories, which brings in a wider audience than just one gender for example. Having a weekly deadline on a Tuesday I think is working very effectively and will continue to do so in the upcoming weeks.

WINOL Blog - Week 5

The quality of the bulletin is never consistent from week to week. This week it was said that the pictures within the packages are not captivating enough. This is a must. A way to improve is to simply watch BBC and ITV news bulletins. While watching note down each shot as this will bring in an understanding of all the things which can be included in a package.
A major issue is checking your facts. Once an interview has taken place, the interviewee's name and job title must be obtained and verified. By doing this no mistakes will be made, such as giving someone the wrong job title.

George was director this week - he did a really good job. He was confident in what he was instructing and had a good understanding of the gallery. One issue within production was the VT machine. This is an issue which cannot be helped but in this situation in future, the bulletin must continue. An apology for the technical issue is essential but from that, continue reading from the autocue and if possible play the next package. Technical issues are difficult to avoid.

Well done to Justina and Aimee who presented this week. I thought they both did really well.

This week our guest editor was unable to make it. Next week we have Sam Baker - Editor of Red Magazine. She will in from around 12pm, after which she will be introduced to each of the departments. This is a great opportunity for features and the magazine to show Sam content from the magazine and video features produced so far this semester. If you have produced video features then it will be good to reversion them to a shorter more improved version (if possible) to show her, and this way you can explain how you have got to the finished product, then asking her for feedback and advice.
It is highly recommended that we all meet the guest editors as this is a very good way to increase our contacts from within the industry and can do nothing but help us all for the future.
Have a look at this page for brief information on Sam Baker:

http://www.redonline.co.uk/red-women/red-editors/sam-baker.

Law - Copyright

Copyright laws are established within the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Copyright is a branch of intellectual property law which protects the products of people’s skill, creativity, labour or time. The laws on copyright allow the creators of literary, dramatic, musical, artistic works, sound recordings, broadcasts and films the rights to control the ways in which their material may be used. This law covers any of these creations being broadcast, performed, copied, adapted, issued and rented to the public. When someone has created something, it is likely that they will have the right to be identified as the author and to establish any alterations or distortions to their work. For any work to be protected by the laws of copyright that product must pass the test of originality.

Having the right of copyright is automatic, and happens once an individual or a company creates a work. Works should be original and should show a degree of labour, skill or judgement.
An idea of something would not be protected by copyright, but once that book has been written, the content of that will be protected. Once something has been created using a number of aspects such as the use of colours or phrases then the laws of copyright will protect that product. However just the colour or phrase used will not be protected.

The owner of any work created can vary on the situation. In most situations, the owner is the author of the work, and this person is known as the ‘first owner of copyright’ under the 1988 Act. When a work has been produced under the employment of a company, then the owner will be the company who that person works for.

Reproduction of a substantial part of a copyright work may constitute infringement. When a work is protected by the laws of copyright, it is an offence to; copy the work, rent or issue copies to the public, broadcast the work to the public or adapt the work without the consent of the owner.

With regards to news stories, there is no copyright in facts and information. Copyright does exist however in the form of which the information is expressed by the writer and the selection and arrangement of the material because all of these aspects involve skill and labour. The defence of Fair Dealing can be used when reporting current stories, as this allows using some quotes from another paper, providing the use is accompanied by sufficient acknowledgement of the work and its author. This requirement is only necessary when it is being provided to the public.
Fair dealing is a defence, which comes under copyright law. The defence sets out ways in which actions may be carried out so that they are not regarded as infringement of the work. The defence allows the use of quotations or excerpts where a piece of work has been made available to the public. This is only on the grounds that:
- The use is acceptable under the terms of fair dealing,
- The material used is justified and no more than is necessary is included,
- That the source of the used material is mentioned, along with the name of the author.

The use of fair dealing prevents any infringement. You can use fair dealing for any of the following:

• Private research,
• Criticism or review,
• Incidental inclusion,
• Reporting current events.

Features - W/O 25th Oct 2011

Features has improved vastly this week. The quality of the video features is much better.

• Zoe and Becky have produced their first restaurant review. We had been in contact to Stuart who works for a PR company and he agreed to give us free drinks for a competition winner if WINOL reviewed Giraffe restaurant - Basingstoke. Becky and Zoe arranged to attend the restaurant, which led to them having their meal for free and very good service from the staff. The finished package was of good quality. Even though they had a lot of footage on their tapes, they edited the shots to about 1'30". The images were a lot quicker and sharper, which captivates the audience, making them stay for the duration of the package. Through editing they were unsure whether to keep their 'summary' clip. But after reading their written article and this having all the detail from their experience at the restaurant, the summary was necessary in the video also. We would not have been able to class the package as a review if the summary clip was not included.
  Having reviewed one restaurant, this needs to be an ongoing feature for WINOL. We have decided to continue this as possibly a two weekly feature allowing both Becky and Zoe to produce other features during this semester too.
  This week they are heading to London to attend The Yoga Show. They are in the process of deciding an angle of which to produce the feature. This needs to be deciding before the event so that all interviews are carried out in the right angle.
  
  
  
  
• Ewan has produced his first Games Review, filmed in the studio using the green screen. This was presented by Ewan and Graham, but produced predominantly by Ewan. This was based around the recent release of the Batman: 'Arkham City' game. This featured a small clip of this game as well as other game reviews. The clips were used under Fair Dealing. This game review is a very good example of the use of Fair Dealing.
  Ewan is planning on carrying out more game reviews, but like this one, he is going to base it on a new release, featuring other games.
  

• Poppy has produced a number of written features for her column: 'A Diary of a Winchester Lady' . I have now asked someone to create a cartoon of Poppy for this column. Using a cartoon rather than a standard picture will ensure Poppy is kept 'mysterious'. This image should be completed by Friday this week.
  Poppy produced a comment piece about her experience on visiting a medium. Her account of this is very good. It provides a first hand account of the reading as well as her opinions towards it all.
  Her latest article was entitled 'A Bad Choice'. This was based on what she had overheard recently. The first draft of this was good, however the end paragraph was more on the lines of advice, and as a comment column this is not the role of the piece. I advised her to alter the ending to make it more punchy and about what she thought as the column is based on what Poppy thinks - or what the Lady of Winchester thinks. The piece is now much better. www.winol.co.uk - 'The Diary of a Winchester Lady'.

• What's On had to be re-edited this week after not having an editorially strong structure to the piece. I hadn't set a deadline for this so Cara and Jake had more time than they gave themselves to edit the footage, but it was completed very quickly which sabotaged the quality. After meeting with Chris and Brian, a clear structure was established. I asked this to be re-edited for Wednesday as well as producing a tease clip to feature on the end of the bulletin. Due to technical complications this deadline has been extended for another day and did not feature on the bulletin, however will be plugged in time for Halloween.
  It has been decided that from now on, Cara is to present What's On and to arrange interviews etc with celebrities, and Jake is to produce the show, including filming and editing.

Now that features have taken off, we must set aims before the end of this semester.

• It would be very good to have at least 4 episodes of WINOL Life published.
  We need to keep on track with our dates. Next WINOL Life to be filmed this Tuesday 1st November.
• We must all plug every feature in order to increase our hits on the website.
  This can be done easily through Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
  E.g. for 'Girls of War' I searched for 'girl gaming' pages on Facebook and posted the link to the video to them. I did the same for 'Cooking in Comfort'. We all need to be doing this!
• Branch out from Winchester. This is the plan for Poppy who is going to The Ideal Home Show - Christmas Special and for Zoe and Becky who are attending the Yoga Show and the Luxury Travel Show, all in London. This will give you all better experience as well as a wider range of features produced for the site and for you.
  

Media Law - Defences

There are a few defences available to journalists – of which a couple will need to rely on another defence in order to be effective.

The defence of Fair Comment protects published opinion. However, if a media organisation is using this as their defence, it will need to be prepared to rely on another defence. This could be justification, qualified privilege or absolute privilege.

The requirements of this defence are as follows:

• The published comment must be the honestly held opinion of the person making it.
• The comment should be recognisable as opinion.
• The comment must be based on provably true facts/privilege matter.
• The subject commented on must be a matter of public interest.

The defence of justification will be effective if the words complained of were true. This defence can be misleading because there is no requirement that the words were published justly or with good reason.

Malice is being dishonest or improper but knowingly. You must have motive to be dishonest, this is therefore known as malice. Proof of malice can be used by a claimant in a libel action to deprive the defendant of the defences, fair comment or qualified privilege.

Privilege is being exempt from the law. Absolute privilege is available to judges in court. They are able to state their opinion regardless of how offensive it is, within the courtroom, and the defence is available to them. Qualified privilege is available as a defence to journalists where it is considered important that facts should be freely known in the public interest. Journalists are allowed to publish statements from within court – as long as they are published immediately – without the risk of being sued.

An example of both absolute and qualified privilege occurred in a recent case with Amanda Knox. During the trial it was stated that Amanda Knox was a ‘she-devil’. Absolute privilege was apparent here due to the statement being delivered by someone in the judiciary. Qualified privilege was available to those journalists who printed this within their report.

This can be seen in the Guardian’s report on this story.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/04/two-faces-of-amanda-knox

Absolute privilege will never be available to journalists. However if a report is free from error and it is published immediately then the qualified privilege offers a similar degree of protection.

Another defence, which is crucial to cases of defamation or libel is the Reynold's Defence.

This is a ten point test which protects a publication of defamatory material provided that it was a matter of public interest and that it was the product of ‘responsible journalism’.

Lord Nicholls established the 10 points:

1. Seriousness of the allegation – if the consequences are bad, the allegation is bad.
2. The nature of the information – is it in the public interest?
3. Source of the information – the source needs to be 100% reliable.
4. What were the steps taken to verify the information?
5. What is the status of the information?
6. Urgency of the matter.
7. Whether comment was sought by the claimant.
8. Whether the report contains the claimant’s side of the story.
9. The tone of the article.
10. The circumstances of the publication.

If a journalist has all of these 10 points as well as the public interest the defence of qualified privilege will be granted for them.