It’s all done. Perhaps not the type of event that I’d have hoped, but at least that aspect was out of our hands.
From my point of view, I had the pleasure of leading a fantastic team of young journalists. Seriously, take a look at our content. We’ve done well. Photos, audio, analysis. All in the space of two hours. Video to come later next week (and that’s only because we didn’t have the equipment to put it straight onto the blog). I’m very proud.
Our photographer, Ben Reeves, has posted the night’s events from his point of view.
The liveblog format worked well, I think. We were given a room to base our operations from — which we were locked out of at one point — and we flitted between our room and the SU bar where it was all being announced. But, somehow, we had a constant stream of people running upstairs shouting “I’ve got audio! I’ve got audio!”.
Tell me now: How many national newspapers have covered an event in this way?
It’s the way forward, and The Linc team has embraced it with open arms.
Lately, I’ve been linked to by some major blogs. Normally because I’m having a whinge about old journalists or, recently, the NUJ*. It would be great if this effort from Lincoln student journalists could get a heads up out there in blogland.
*Donnacha — thanks for your comment. I’m genuinely impressed by the fact you haven’t just seen the sarcastic nature of my comments and directed a hearty “F*ck off!” in my direction. I’ll be responding to your comments soon. I must say, though, that the comments you’ve made in my last post make much more sense than those in your article that I linked to. I’ve listened to the Media Guardian podcast that you appear in. Again, in that you seem to soften the blow. Either you regret your original comments, or they were shocking for shocking’s sake…
Dave,
Congratulations on the experiment of coverage.It is a great shame that students appear so apethetic to SU politics.That doesn’t take away your commendable efforts.