23/04/08

So far i have completed two restaurant reviews, my next review will be on the tapas restaurant Las Iguanas. Writing reviews is fun and challenging as it can be written different context. The way to describe the food can be like painting a picture so the readers can capture the image of that particular dish. At the end of this subject i will have a vareity of stories to add to my portfolio.

My next tip for a story will be based on the bar/restuarant Takapuna as they are holding a Miss South Yorkshire competition. I will interview one of the contestants from Sheffield and ask them a series of questions also will interview one of the main judges of the competition. I believe this will benefit me in my interviewing skills.

15/04/08

Today i have managed to finish of my restaurant reviews both for online and print. This is my second review i have found writing restaurant reviews to be interesting and a good experience as it involved me going to the restaurants to eat the food and also interview the staff about their restaurant.

The best part of restaurant is eating the food as you get to experience different flavours etc so far i have visited Aroma and Wasabi Sabi.

However the disadvantages are that when you write the story for a print version it is about 250 words and then you have the online version which is at least 150 words. I found this to be rather difficult to shorten down as all the information is relevant. Therefore i managed to break it down.

01/04/08

Today i turned a print news stories into a online news stories, i thought this was interesting as online stories are much shorter and more to the point cutting out the least important information.

During the easter holidays i had a telephone interview with the hospitality manager at the forge to find out about the domestic bulglaries and car crimes within the area. I found this to be intriguing and challenging as this was my first attempt to telephone interviewing. however writing down all the information given was very difficult this is where i think shorthand would have come in use. although i did manage to construct a news stories from this plot.

groupwork 4/3/08

Today even though we was a team member down and found it abit difficult to start the newspaper using Quark. As we started to get into it we found the two of us were helping each other to meet the deadline by producing a solid news story.

At first i found it hard to use Quark but as i got use it to i found it easy, even though there are still a few angles i need to grasp. For example how to link text to another textbox.

the overall result was satisfactory even though the paper layout may need to be polished. I made the deadline and found other features to include for next week, i.e vox pop, food reviews and a follow up story on sheffield United football.