The text I subbed was quite simple and straightforward. To help ensure all of the celebrity names were spelt correctly I copied and pasted them into Google. I also changed some punctuation in the quotes and I took away parts that would create legal issues.
For my headline I kept it simple and I used capital letters because thats the style most magazines use.
The main thing that I struggled with was how people are cited alongside quotes. Most of the magazines i’ve looked at don’t have any punctuation to link the quote and their name together. A lot of quotes just have the persons name either before or after, with commas breaking up any other information about them in the sentence. Due to my findings I decided to place people’s names, the year and where they said it in the same format and I took away the dashes. However, i’m still doubting myself as i’m unsure what the correct way is.
The event I covered using mobile journalism was a fundraising gig.
At the event there wasn’t a lot going on other than what was on the stage. Due to this I thought it would be best to tweet about who’s there using some photographs. I also used vine to show what was happening and they were linked onto twitter. Plus, I used Capture gather some footage of the performances to create a short video.
I decided to use these apps because they help make the article visual, which is what I thought was the most important thing to do whilst covering an event like that. One of the reasons why I avoided using an audio app was because I wasn’t sure how everything would sound due to the instruments and the speakers in the venue. However, I could have tested the sound first before capturing it properly.
Throughout the night I noticed people were paying attention to my tweets so it was important to me to carry on tweeting regularly. By the end of the night I had gained a few followers. Due to this, it’s clear that as a journalist it’s important to always provide people with regular updates to keep them interested. Depending on the news story, sometimes it’s better to live tweet, blog an broadcast instead of just writing a news story after everything has happened.
Musicians from Hull claimed they were raising money for Kanye West to gain publicity.
Black Kes held a fundraiser called For the Benefit of Mr West after the rapper announced on Twitter he is $53m in debt.
The three-piece band held the event at O’Rileys, on Beverley Road, after offering the star £45 from their band account and saying “we’re here for you”.
The band tweeted Kanye West saying: “We too are artists and family men. Xxx.”
Black Kes’ members are known as JT, Specky and Rat King. They are a skiffle band who combine jazz, folk and blues.
At the gig all of the acts performing made it clear that the money they had raised was being donated to Hull’s BricWorks charity in Story Street, which helps people with mental health issues.
Earlier in the week, Black Kes said in an interview with Hull Daily Mail that they were going to donate the money to the charity if they did not hear back from Kanye West by the end of the event.
The band expected a good turnout. However, not as many people showed up as they had hoped with the audience mainly consisting of their friends and family.
Most of women’s magazines have similar page layouts. As you can see in the double page spread above, large bodies of text are split into at least two columns to make it easier for readers to digest. To break up the text images are also used. Typically, photographs cover 50% of the page to balance out the text. Most of the time in women’s magazines a large image is placed before the story and then a smaller image is placed lower down on the page. Usually the main image is of the celebrity who the story is about and then the smaller image is of the celebrity with someone who they have spoke about. Also on the smaller images, there are always captions so you know who they are with and when the image was taken.
Most magazines have white pages with black font to make the text as easy as possible to read. This magazine in particular also stereotypically uses pink text, which is likely to appeal to most women. In terms of hierarchy, the headers are presented in larger fonts and bold text.
Make sure you have battery power and enough to last you, otherwise travelling somewhere will be pointless as you won’t be able to share a story
Start by putting your phone in airplane mode to stop calls and notifications particularly need if you’re live streaming as it can ruin and interrupt broadcasts
Clean your lens to make sure your shots are good quality, otherwise you may end up with blurry and unprofessional looking shots
Hold your phone horizontally so your phones home button is in the right hand side, this prevents you from accidentally shooting upside down
Video: New car park to be built in Hull city centre
A car park has been planned to be ready for people to use in Hull city centre by March, writes Danielle Hayes.
The pay and display car park will have 258 spaces and will be ideal for people visiting businesses in the heart of the city. This is going to be located on St Stephen’s Square, next to Tesco.
Hull City Council currently own the empty piece of land and they have teamed up with Car Parking Management Ltd to create the car park. Planning permission was granted at the beginning of the month.
Car Parking Management Ltd posted about their plans on Facebook, they said: “[It will be] an ideal place to park for city centre shopping, Hull Truck Theatre, the KC Stadium and nearby hotels and businesses.”
I thought my coverage on the news story I found was quite good. I made sure I followed the requirements of SEO and I had a range of multimedia and infographics. The multimedia I had was 2 images and a video, and the infographics I embedded was one I created myself and a Google map.
In terms of SEO, I used as many keywords as possible at the beginning of the story and I used some hyperlinks on some of the words to take readers to other websites.
I thought that my image of the person I interviewed (Parish Councillor, Kim Baish) could have looked better because it was taken from a low angle and it would have looked better from higher up. However, my other image (of the church) looked really good. The video’s quality was also poor because I had trouble getting a video camera and so I had to use a photography camera. As well as the quality, the video was also shot at a bad angle, it really should have been higher up both people should have been in the frame evenly. Unfortunately, not all of the interview was filmed either because the camera stopped recording when it got to 10 minutes. Next time I take a video and i’m in front of the camera instead of behind, I now know to always double check before I start filming an interview.
As well as embedding a Google Map as an infographic, I thought it would be good to visualise some figures as well that were in my story. To create the infographic, I used Adobe Photoshop to create an outline of the church and then I added the figures to show how much money was needed and how much has been raised so far. I’m glad I made this little infographic, because it’s unique and it sums up some of the information from my news story.
Overall, I think my news story looks good and it’s presented well. However, the multimedia could be improved.
The news story I covered was about All Saints Church raising money to improve their conditions and facilities. This church is in Mappleton which is a very small village, in the countryside, near Hornsea.
Due to the story been about something in Mappleton, this makes it appeal to a very small audience as many people won’t have heard of the area. I wrote this story in the way you would for local news. The target audience for local news is a variety of different people. Therefore, the language used in my story is simple for people of all ages and class to read and understand. If I wrote this story in a different way, in a higher register, it wouldn’t work because it wouldn’t appeal to the average audience as it’s likely they wouldn’t understand complex words.
This story in particular is for online, and so this is something that could be published on the Hull Daily Mail or Holderness Gazette websites. These two news organisations are the only ones who cover Mappleton and the surrounding areas local news.
Mappleton’s All Saints Church Plans to Raise Money
All Saints Church
The residents in Mappleton are aiming to raise up to quarter of a million to improve their church’s facilities.
Parish Councillor, Kim Baish, is determined to make a change to All Saints Church. He wants to make the church more friendly and welcoming by fixing the clock, adding insulation, changing the seating and lighting, upgrading the kitchen and adding some toilets.
Parish Councillor, Kim Baish
Mr Baish Said:
‘To do this church I would estimate that you will be looking of a figure of about £200,000-£250,000 to do everything that needs doing and to bring it up to a good state of repair so that you can think it will be very good for the next generation’.
The main focus on the church is for the clock to be fixed, the Parish Councillor said:
‘The mechanism is completely broken so we’ve got some quotes and we’ve raised quite a lot of money towards it being completed’
‘That will be lovely to hear it chiming because quite a lot of people in the area look to the clock’
‘It will be really nice to see it working’
For the clock to be sorted out, £15,000 needs to be raised. Kim Baish has already raised £5000 on his own, in the last 8 months, and he has been promised £10,000 from Withernwick Wind Farm. However, he still wants to raise some more money on his own.
To raise the money for the grade II listed building, Kim Baish has come up with some ideas for later in the year. One of the main ideas he has is to have a cycling fundraiser that all of the community can take part in, cycling around the area.
All Saints Church has been through a lot in history. It was thought to have existed in 1086, and it has survived bombings from World War 2. Kim Baish has been a Parish Councillor for 15 years.
Watch the interview with Kim Baish here:
Location: Mappleton, East Riding of Yorkshire, HU18 1XS
When it comes to journalism, data is really important because it helps build stories.
So, what is data?
Data is facts and statistics. According to http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/data.html, data is ‘information in raw of unorganized from (such as alphabets, numbers, or symbols) that refer to, or represent, conditions, ideas, or objects’.
There are two main types of data that are called qualitative and quantitative. Qualitative data is descriptive information and quantitative data is numerical information.
‘Data journalism is so important. Gathering, filtering and visualizing what is happening beyond what the eye can see’.
Sources of Data
Data can be found everywhere. Below are the main sources I can think of off the top of my head:
survey results
newspapers
books
magazines
internet – data websites from organisations. i.e. data.gov
social media
posters/flyers
leaflets
annuals
information graphics
To me, data and news stories belong together. I believe that without data you cannot find a story, and if you already have a news story, it’s likely you will need find data to support it.
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