Live Rolling News Day 2: The final rehearsal

It has been 24 hours since Group B’s second Live rolling news day and it went even better than the last, but there are still a few issues to be addressed.

Our editor this time around was Claire McCann and she was on top of things the whole time. Our editorial meeting lasted only a few minutes with us being told to keep it to ”A few sentences, if we have quotes and interviews.” Once we had pitched our ideas and had it approved we were straight to work and there was a buzz in the room much more powerful than the previous week. I must admit I was less organised for this day as I had been extremely busy with an essay but I still had a degree of preparation and managed to submit my copy with time to spare.

Morag had attended court that morning which was really impressive as it gave our news a court story and one which was relevant to that day. We also managed to cover sport, tourism, Parliamentary issues and general interest stories which allowed us to target our appropriate age group with a wide variety of issues. I also found that the levels of organisation with the whole team were amazing and allowed the copies to be published on time, thus meeting the all important journalistic deadline. It even allowed time for myself and Jenny to record a podcast recapping the news of the day, which Chris had collected from “The Wires”. This was great broadcasting experience for the both of us. The full news of the day we submitted can be found here.

However, we still have issues to address as a team. In both trial runs we have failed to add tags, categories, external links and that all important by-line which is essential for a good online story. I also feel that not meeting up the day before like last time may have hindered us a bit, but,  this is still a learning curve.  People who left before the 2pm deadline is also an issue that needs to be addressed as their help was needed in order to submit those final pieces of copy. For next week, the assessment day, we are meeting the day before, attending class early on the day and actively using the Facebook page which can be found here. If we all pull together, as Group B does best, take on board criticism that has been received by Kathleen and from each other, I am sure we can nail this assessment.