Council Meetings

Winchester City Council Meetings 2012

Council

27^th September 7:00pm

Standards Committee

1^st October 6:15pm

Cabinet

3^rd October 10:00am

The Overview and Scrutiny Committee

8^th October 6:30pm

Licensing and Regulation Committee

11^th October 6:30pm

Planning Development Control Committee

18^th October 9:30am

Cabinet (Housing Delivery) Committee

22nd October 2012 10:00am

Council

7^th November 7:00pm

Cabinet

14^th November 10:00am

The Overview and Scrutiny Committee

19^th November 6:30pm

Cabinet (Housing) Committee

21^st November 10:00am

Winchester Town Forum

21^st November 6:30pm

Personnel Committee

26^th November 6:30pm

EHDC/WCC Joint Environmental Services Committee

28^th November 2:30pm

Licensing and Regulation Committee

29^th November 6:30pm

Standards Committee

3^rd December 6:15pm

Audit Committee

4^th December 6:30pm

Cabinet

5^th December 10:00am

The Overview and Scrutiny Committee

10^th December 06:30pm

Planning Development Control Committee

13^th December 09:30am

Hampshire County Council Meetings

Executive Member for Culture and Recreation

27^th September 2012 02:00pm

Audit Committee

27^th September 2:15pm

Children and Families Advisory Panel

1^st October 2012 1:30pm

Education Advisory Panel

1^st October 2012 09:15am

Buildings, Land and Procurement Panel

2^nd October 2012 10:00am

Executive Member for Adult Social Care

26^th October 02:00pm

Executive Member for Environment and Transport

6^th November 02:00pm

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Summer Work Experience

Over the summer I was lucky enough to get 3 work experience placements. MSN, Computer Active and PCPro.

All 3 taught me very different things about the world of journalism, and I left each one feeling as though it's helped me to become a better journalist.

MSN
I spent some time at MSN, and earnt alot about CMS, which I've learnt is used by a number of news websites for managing and publishing their content. I used their system (called Blackboard) to format and publish content onto the news website, which included adding SEO keywords.

I also wrote a few news pieces and features, including a piece on the new technology that was introduced in the London 2012 Olympics. I learnt about the importance of house style, as MSN had a specific way of referring to different aspects of the games.

I also created a few gallery pieces that contain a number of pictures with a couple of pars written underneath.

Computer Active
I spent two weeks at Computer Active working for the news team. I wrote a number of news pieces based on press releases, twitter trends, and reports from other news sources. During my time there I had to contact press offices, sources and professional figures for quotes and phone interviews.

I wrote a few pieces for an issue of the magazine, and also sat in on news meetings and a meeting to discuss what images would be used for the news section of the magazine and how it would be structured.

PCPro
At PC Pro I produced news stories, which were sometimes more challenging because of the magazines target audience. They are very aware of the products they are reading about, so the news stories required a lot of research and re-writing to get them right for the target audience.


Here are some of the pieces that I wrote on my work experience placements.

Computer Active
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/ca/news/2200013/german-privacy-chief-reopens-facebook-facetagging-probe

http://www.computeractive.co.uk/ca/news/2200432/people-prefer-to-buy-new-pcs-rather-than-upgrade-says-crucial

http://www.computeractive.co.uk/ca/news/2201963/confusedcom-releases-free-app-that-could-improve-driving-skills

http://www.computeractive.co.uk/ca/news/2202224/faa-considers-dropping-ban-on-use-of-phones-laptops-and-ebooks-on-planes


PCPro
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/376705/windows-7-tops-xp-for-first-time

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/376804/twitter-angers-developers-with-more-changes

MSN
http://tech.uk.msn.com/mobiles/zte-enters-the-top-5-smartphone-manufacturers

http://tech.uk.msn.com/apps/sophos-launch-new-anti-virus-app-for-android

http://tech.uk.msn.com/features/technology-of-london-2012

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