COMING SOON IN 2008 ON THIS BLOG

Over the next few weeks I will upload the articles I have had published in the Gazette and also upload the vox pops I carried out in Uxbridge from July-December 2007....

RADIO ON XMAS DAY

I went to the Hayes FM studio on Christmas morning between 9.30am-11.00 to watch the Raymond Jackson and Angela Kanwar breakfast show. It was good fun and a great opportunity to meet some of the other presenters for 91.8 Hayes FM. They played lots of requests and gave a mention to the online viewers requests. The station broadcasts around Uxbridge, Hayes, West Drayton, Ealing, Southall, Greenford and Harlington. However, you can listen anywhere in the world by logging onto their website: http://www.hayesfm.org/. I will be back on air around the second week in January reading the daily national news headlines at 7.20am. In the meantime it's back to the newsroom at Brunel for revision and coursework.

WORK EXPERIENCE ON CHRISTMAS DAY

Tomorrow we have been set the challenge of writing out the Queen's Christmas Speech in shorthand....and I will be going to 91.8 Hayes FM to do some work experience for an hour or two. It seems there is no escaping from the heavy workload that comes as part of the package of being a postgraduate trainee journalist. Even on Christmas Day we must remain dedicated because our job as reporters is to capture the news as and when it happens. The news is always with us...even on Christmas Day. We may take a few hours away from the news desk but we never really leave it. Being a journalist is a 24/7 profession, and as trainees the sooner we get used to it the better. Merry Christmas everyone.

COURSEWORK BLOG

As part of the News Writing Module we had to create a blog with seven news articles and reflective reports to showcase our newswriting skills during the first term of the MA. The last 12 weeks have flown by..... Here's the URL of my blog submitted for assessment on Friday 14th December 2007: http://westlondonnewsbykatiegoodall.blogspot.com/ The showcase includes interviews and video footage generated between September 2007 to Novemeber 2007. Five of the articles were published in the Gazette Series, mainly the Uxbridge Gazette during my work placement.

THE TO DO LIST

IT'S FINALLY the end of term. It's been a great learning curve and an opportunity to develop core journalism skils such as shorthand, law, government, news writing, work experience and meet other trainee journlists both on the MA in Journalism course at Brunel University and during my work placement at The Gazette series. I've also had the opportunity to do some broadcasting this semester. I joined 91.8 Hayes FM as a news reader for the Gerard Conway show, and I'm on air reading the national headlines around 7.20am. Jennelle and I also started our show on URB which is University Radio Brunel, but the station is closed now till after the New Year. I also have to record a local news programme for Hospital Radio Hillingdon soon, and will pop in over Christmas and help co-present some shows. This has definitely been one busy term for Team Journo....and one busy holiday. Despite my best efforts to be organised, I still feel I have mountains of paperwork. I must learn not to be a perfectionist and start writing more.......Well here goes with a list. My To Do List for .2007/08..... Practice Shorthand Revise Law Revise Government Write an NHS Feature Sort through my notes Go to the gym Write 5 News stories and one feature for my portfolio. Prepare local news and URB show Edit this blog Scan newspaper articles into blog. The list still goes on but I will finish here. Merry Christmas and Happy 2008. I will take a couple of weeks off from Blogging but will update this site in January 2008.