Radio Production Blog - News day 2 - South Coast Radio

This news day was a lot more successful. Leads for stories were chased up much more quickly and suitable audio clips were created for each story. The story choices and running order were good but due to an editorial decision an important story was missed. The first bulletin was a little long and could have done without the inclusion of travel. Again, the sports desk was very successful. In the second hour we included the story we had overlooked but again due to the editor’s decision didn’t run it top where it belonged. Again the desks were good but we were a little pushed for time in studio.

Personally, I was happy with my role as a journalist in getting vox pops for several of the stories and again as producer in organising and putting the audio together in the running order. I also voiced a story and was happy with this as my tone and style suited the piece.

Radio Production Blog - News day 1 - Talbot FM

On this news day the team didn’t work hard enough to gather audio clips for stories early on in the day and didn’t chase up stories well enough. In one case one of the stories didn’t meet the assessment requirements for the percentage of self-made audio, which is a major oversight. All of this led to a weaker bulletin at 1200 but gave us something to work to for the later bulletin at 1400. The team improved for this later bulletin and it was far more successful in terms of self-made content and well-chosen stories. The sports and entertainments desks were well put together successful in both bulletins. This is due to the hard work of both Max and Nadia. However, their focus on the desks may have proved detrimental to the rest of the bulletin because there were fewer people working on this. If the desks had been finished in less time then maybe the team could have concentrated as a whole on the rest of the bulletin. The team agrees that most of the flaws in this news day were based on editorial decisions.

Personally, I think I did a good job as producer. I worked along side the other group members to research and put together news stories for each bulletin. Then before the bulletin I put together the running order and double-checked which stories required audio and which didn’t. As producer I also helped put together the stings.