The last year of being a student at The University of Winchester and a new challenge came upon- Feature Editor of The Winchester News Online Features department.
The last year and our last chance to gain as much time building our profile and skills and practice online Journalism during editions of Winchester New Online before going into the profession next year.
It is time for us to train new second year reporters to work within News/Features team in pressurised working environment and gain skills helpful to prepare for the future profession.
Now when our sources have been improved, our computers and ENPS program. We will be refreshed on latest edition of Final Cut pro to improve our editing skills. We will be thought on masterclass level on sound and lighting.
All the possible problems and issues should be solved at the level of our Winol's editors, our lectures should be our critical resort to turn to if need.
Our new guest editors visiting our weekly Winol and available for advise and feedback of our work will be great persons like Graham Bell, Rob Kirk or even Maria Melano from The Install magazine and Laura Barton, my personal idol of the feature writing.
We are now aiming for more BJTC awards and also guardian awards. Since we have already received a BJTC award for innovation for WINOL and our Election coverage why should we stop there, we will be aiming fore more! In order to do that we ought to focus on what is so different about us, why are we unique and why should our audience read our work. We have to be able to recognise our targeted audience and understand well what are they interested in to capture their readership and keep it. We must show we know we can get to them. In terms of Winchester News Online readership, our targeted audience is students society and we also spread to local news for Winchester town. The population of SU is important, on the campus as well as living in Winchester.
I would like my team of feature writers, head of comment/reader response , investigations as well as magazine editor with myself as the features editor work together towards hitting our targeted audience, we will be aiming at 300 readers and hopefully try to aim even higher. Working hard all together and communicating as well as respecting our main objectives as a team is very important and having such a fantastic team, I believe there is nothing to stop us reaching our objectives.
Our features will be calm, be of good quality and we will have the feature stories lined up for each week, these are the main characteristics that make a good quality feature work, and I can not see a single reason why we should not meet these requirements and be proud of our work.
Link to our PRODUCTION SCHEDULE FOR WINOL is here it is important we are all aware of it.
Essential to remember is that everyone has to obey the Fatal Error System as long as we do we have our indemnity, reporters have to obey the editors and editors have to obey publisher's orders, that is the only way to keep our indemnity. If we don't we loose it and will be taking a full responsibility for any fatal errors we have committed.
After today's introductory session for WINOL, I will work on making a weekly plan for our Features team and try to fit it best around for best effects for our Features Magazine.
