Monthly Archives: July 2007

Skynews internship

By Mitch | Published: Tuesday, 24th July, 2007

I was fortunate enough to get two weeks in Sydney working with Skynews at their Macquarie Park facility. While Jschool is predominately focused on print media, the lessons gained saw me wrestle through in this television environment. The energy was evident when I first walked into the studio newsroom. The newsroom is the actual studio [...]

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Listen to your editor!

By Robyn | Published: Monday, 23rd July, 2007

Last Thursday we went down to the Independent offices for a demonstration on sub-editing. Don walked us through what sub-editor does–winge, winge and winge, err…edit, correct and fix. He then showed us how his software worked, how he adjusted font, format, layout and size. Although, I think the best part of the morning was when [...]

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Things you should know about John

By Robyn | Published: Wednesday, 18th July, 2007

1) He always has his camera handy and is ALWAYS snapping pictures…I have a rather large collection of pictures of John taking pictures; and 2) As I sit here looking up three or four different things John has told me to go look up (based of course on questions I foolishly asked in class), I [...]

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Internships, Farewells, Zeroseven, Subbing and Stressing

By Katrina | Published: Friday, 13th July, 2007

So firstly a late recap on my recent internship at the BDT in Broken Hill. It took me a while to get used to the regional pace of things… finding things to write about was definately much harder! The staff were all really friendly though and I had a good week. I spent a lot [...]

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Issues of style

By Robyn | Published: Wednesday, 11th July, 2007

John, Desley and I have had some discussions over style and syntax over the last few months. So, I’ve been consulting Canadian publications…I’m not crazy! We do use periods in abbreviations (such as Rev.). We also dearly love our commas, frequently using them before and (as a link of ideas in a sentence)–cross checked in [...]

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