Category: Sub-Editing

Hey Lads, and goodbye,
This will be my final post for this blog which in a sense is weird to be writing a goodbye,

In this blog, I am going to offer a lot of general reflection on this semester which in many ways was a journey. To think that in late January when I was stressing about my Lulitmi project that I now would be stressing about zoom calls, big blue button and online learning and these kinda define my last few weeks of learning at UL.

I spoke weeks ago about needing to come to terms with online learning and that I will need to learn to adapt to it. In many sense I used the wrong word, compromise was more accurate. It’s not easy learning from home in this stressy messy time but I found it easier admitting to myself that it was okay to not find this easy.

And I know I wasn’t the only one. As Student rep for my class, I had to send several emails to lecturers, who for the most part were incredibly accommodating. So find solace in the fact that it was okay to struggle a little this semester and it doesn’t reflect on myself as a student.

To conclude I just want to reflect on the skills I learnt this year.

For one, I am coming along with Adobe InDesign, I have been working in my part-time to get skills up. Along with this, I found greater pleasure in working with audio alone and considering making a podcast. All these skills I am grateful to have collected through the semester as well as some simpler ones such as better time management, reading research effectively and writing better for academia.

So sláinte to a very weird year but look! I finished first year, 18th year old me couldn’t even fathom this.

Caleb x

As the first year of university begins to lower its head to sleep I want to look back on the modules I had for Journalism this semester.

This semester we had two fascinating subjects related to journalism in Sub-Editing and Radio Journalism. This was much nice compared to having only a journalism-related subject last year.

The modules were really interesting and had me thinking a lot about the profession at large. I will admit guys that I have a level 6 QQI in Radio production so I had some familiarity with radio editing and producing content. However, I thought the focus of the lessons offered a lot of insight.

Audrey, our lecturer tried to teach a lot of what we should be looking for when we are prepping a story. This was interesting cause when radio content before and similar to what I do in ULFM, I focus on the aesthetic more so than the story. What sounds good on the radio than what should be.

I think Audrey’s saying “Always think of the head, heart and pocket in a story” will always decent advice to trying to be a good journalist and get the story an audience needs to hear maybe more so than they want.

A can’t say much more about sub-editing as it was very self-directed learning particularly of the software InDesign which I found myself picking up at a particularly decent skill.

This makes me a little proud as these modern new media skills such as desktop publishing, video or photo editing are very versatile skills that any CV would love to have and it gives me the motivation to hone.

That’s all for me though, is there any great lesson or skills you learnt this year that perhaps wasn’t on your learning outcomes but you found valuable anyway? Let me know.

Caleb x