Monday was spent mainly in meetings, and it has since been decided that Charlotte should sit in the news, sport, features and production meetings most of the day, and I should stand in as editor for the rest of the team.
Tuesday was a rather calm day, just making sure everyone was up together and confident that they would meet their deadlines.
Wednesday was spent advertising and promoting, with the help of the 1st year runners. The uni have banned us from putting up posters, due to them being put up on painted walls, so I have since sent an email to the President of the SU and had it forwarded to the management apologising for this. They have now said we can display posters on floors 2 and 3 on the activity boards.
An hour before the bulletin went live, our "and finally" fell through. I managed to find another story about a protest in Southampton to link into the package about council cuts, which we set up as an OB. I had to find a picture to go with this, and found a journalist from Southampton, who has been to the protest and posted a picture on Twitter. We asked his permission to use it, and said we would credit it on the site, but not in the bulletin, to which he agreed. With the OB ready to go, I was in charge of making sure it all ran smoothly in the news room: keeping background noise to a minimum, and making sure the camera was positioned correctly and all the equipment was working.
So far, our audience figures show that we are on a par with the Hampshire Chronicle, double the views of the Echo, and about a quarter of the Basingstoke Gazette. We have also had approximately 100 individual hits from the university site.
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