Online Journalism 3rd Year Group Project - Week 10

Today I couldn't make it into university so I did some more work on the site from home. The article I posted from home was a news story regarding Twitter's plans to launch paid-for business accounts.

Online Journalism 3rd Year Group Project - Week 9

Yesterday was a basic workshop day with five of us showing up. I managed to get two posts done during the day, since I missed out a day the previous week. I did an opinion feature about Channel 4's 3D Week (it was an opinion because I wanted to differentiate it slightly from my film 3D feature a few weeks back) and a news story about DVDs made of stone. We also had Karl Schneider come into uni from Reed Business to give a talk and Q&A about publishing on the web. It gave me some interesting opinions about the future of online journalism and a few things from that stuck out ('there are no set rules' and 'interactivity is key' being a couple of them).

Online Journalism 3rd Year Group Project - Week 8

Today was a basic workshop day with four of us turning up. I just did the one feature again, though this time it was a response to a news story written the previous week about the Somerton blogger who eventually got some of his councillors to resign. After the critical analysis of the week before, I deliberately wrote a very cautious piece and a more structured one. I think that this was for the better as it is one of the best features I've done for the site so far. I plan to continue doing news stories throughout the week (just like the week before).

Online Journalism 3rd Year Group Project - Week 7

Yesterday we all received a critical mauling from Simon that, whilst ruthless, was needed for all of us I felt. I think I had gotten a little too complacent and a little too lazy in my writing and I was showed up yesterday. I've decided to take the two criticised articles off the site and will maybe re-write them at a future point in the project. All of us got criticised because we all happened to be in yesterday one bar one person. If there was one thing that was learnt this week, it was that feedback is our friend, no matter how unrelenting it can be.

Online Journalism 3rd Year Group Project - Week 6

Yesterday was a cross-media day across the entire university and I personally thought that it was an incredibly dull and pointless day. The work that members of our group eventually created would never be assessed or marked so I did wonder where my strength to do any work as part of it would come from. As it turned out, I just did work on the group website instead, which is what we should have doing in the first place. I got some stuff done in the end but I did feel a little annoyed at the structure of the working day.

Online Journalism 3rd Year Group Project - Week 5

Today was spent doing more writing for the site. I continued to do some features, including one on the Spotify. I've now decided that I'll save my news posts for the point later in the term when we are meant to go live/starting our workshops as I want to focus on more feature-orientated posts for the time being. The website is now ready to put posts on and there is nothing left to majorly overhaul.

Online Journalism 3rd Year Group Project - Week 4

Today was spent putting the finishing touches to the website design and also when we started to think about content to put up on the site. I did some research into what kind of topics we'd be writing about and wrote a piece about 3D in films as a test post of sorts. The website now has eight sections - and we all have one category each to control. I also created the Twitterfeed account so that all posts will be posted on the Twitter feed automatically, which will save time in terms of keeping readers informed of what's being posted.