By Jo | Published:
Wednesday, 29th August, 2007
Good morning all
Thank heavens for a family friendly news room.
My Big boy has had an asthma event and a meltdown in the absence of his mum.
I’m returning to Brisbane tonight to sort the whanau (family) out.
Returning to the Daily on Monday was so much better than the first week. Just being familiar with the systems [...]
By Tameka | Published:
Tuesday, 28th August, 2007
i made some mistakes i know… haha so tired!
By Tameka | Published:
Tuesday, 28th August, 2007
ah-ha, finally in after the system decided not to reject me after some awkward attempts to enter!
How is everyone, your blogs are interesting to read.
Anyway this is my second post, so i have a fair bit to say, here i go….
Last week was so much fun, got a front page story which was on last [...]
By Robyn | Published:
Tuesday, 28th August, 2007
ps means read after the other post but since it gets posted chronologically…you’ll get this first…one of my co-workers at the Whitehorse Star is from Toronto, studied at UQ in Brisbane, knows Desley and has heard of John and is now working in Whitehorse. That is a really freaky coincedence if you ask me. [...]
By Robyn | Published:
Tuesday, 28th August, 2007
Had a great wedding (not mine), saw so many familiar and long lost faces, drank tasty wine and ate delicious salmon, have not looked at shorthand in three weeks and was not at all impressed when my alarm went off at 6 am this morning. Even my dog who normally loves mornings was not [...]
By Jo | Published:
Monday, 27th August, 2007
Take a pencil to record in the rain. Torn pages and barely legible notes do not a story make.
Take your own coffe mug. The only ones available are the chipped stained ones under the sink that have sat unwashed for years and years and years.
They don’t use the inverted pyrimad at the Daily. They have [...]
By Jo | Published:
Friday, 24th August, 2007
Well another attempt to make an entry to the blog was foiled by the dreadful sunshine coast weather.
As I submited my entry the electrics in my apartment failed so once again a long chatty piece about my week has disappeared into the ether.
Have had a good week . Lots of news relating to rain, [...]
By Robyn | Published:
Thursday, 23rd August, 2007
I got to Whitehorse safe and sound and after a day of jetlag, picked up the two local papers to start sessing out issues. At first glance, layout is very different from Australia (very consistent page-wide layout), photo captions are different, headlines are centered. Then I started flipping through headlines. The first [...]
By Jo | Published:
Monday, 20th August, 2007
This is the third time I have written and tried to post about my day. Keep accidently deleting.
Both attempts were chatty and newsy ,you get none of that now too tired.
Had a good day.
Wrote a story about an 82 year old author and took photos for a street poll.
Going to put my feet up and [...]
By Jo | Published:
Monday, 20th August, 2007
This is the third time I have written and tried to post about my day. Keep accidently deleting.
Both attempts were chatty and newsy ,you get none of that now too tired.
Had a good day.
Wrote a story about an 82 year old author and took photos for a street poll.
Going to put my feet up and [...]
By Tameka | Published:
Monday, 20th August, 2007
I had so much fun today…
I wrote two stories and did a profile on a local.
Everyone was so nice and made me feel really welcome especially the chief of staff, David.
If i needed anything or wasn’t sure of something i could ask anything.
I was nervous as all going in today but once i wrote [...]
By Jo | Published:
Friday, 17th August, 2007
Here I am guys. It has only taken several months and some patient encouragement from the great man to get me here.
We have moved and the exit clean was completed yesterday evening at 630.That clean is always draining. Who really wants to scrub a place they have already left but with an enormous bond [...]
By Robyn | Published:
Wednesday, 8th August, 2007
…a license to ask questions. If you see something unusual or interesting, you can ask questions–sometimes for stories, some times for curiosity (which could always become a story down the line). The other day, the poor garbage collector made the mistake of getting out of his truck while I was jogging past. [...]
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 where the [...]
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 [...]
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 realize, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
By Tameka | Published:
Tuesday, 10th July, 2007
We, upcoming journalists have learnt that we have a duty to respect the rights to inform the public truthfully.
We each have been issued with a copy of the Journalist code of ethics, to appreciate and respect. Some of us may follow it as specific rules, where others may think of it only as guidelines. I [...]
By Robyn | Published:
Monday, 9th July, 2007
A responsibility for objective, un-bias reporting, that is what journalists are taught. Unfortunately, we all have our biases and they creep in to written work, often re-enforcing stereotypes and prejudices.
For me, one of the biggest ethical issues I see in reporting is stereotyping of Muslims as terrorists. Newspapers are quick to point out [...]