Editors meeting minutes

For those who didn't attend the editors meeting, people who didn't make notes and those who want to know what we talk about whilst contemplating whether we want to have any of the free biscuits or if we should stick to our diets, here is a brief look at what was discussed and how we intend to solve certain dilemmas (most of which will be fed back to you on Monday)

• Punctuality - Please ensure you are on time to meetings as it makes it difficult to fully discuss issues if you are not all in attendance.
• Boards & the spike - News, Sports & Features Editors need to ensure there are enough packages on the spike to fill any gaps formed by people missing the deadline or legally questionable packages; Editors need to be more willing to drop packages if they are not done on time or do not fit in with the style of package/article required; ensure deadlines are appropriate to the type of article/package in features and ensure bulletin package deadlines fit in with the amount of time production need to put the packages through the gallery and practice with the presenter before we go live.
• Sub-editing - Sub-editors need to ensure text stories are properly formatted and grammatically and factually accurate and follow the style guide; turnover speed for features would be within 2 days and for news it will need to be uploaded on the same day.
• Conferences - Rather than an ideas meeting, Monday conferences should be much more like a pitch; you should already have a story, an angle, a contact and a headline in mind ahead of these meetings.
• Feature writers - As there are not many dedicated features writers, we would like anyone with an interest to start writing for our magazines, including MAs, 1st years and even passionate people from other courses; to make it easier for others to pitch their features ideas, we will create a contact page on the website.
• Video packages -To help the Production team with editing, please ensure your video packages end with 2-3 seconds of lingering picture after your sign off as this will help make sure the bulletin goes out on time; for voice over on your packages, you should use the radio booth for the best sound quality, currently though, the loan counter have introduced a swipe in system which means you have to use your student card every time you enter and therefore must have a had training to access it. Nicole is currently trying to work out a system to sort this.
• Still Camera training - As you have hopefully seen on the Facebook page, I would like everyone to participate in still camera training which Nicole & I am currently organising as the pictures across all of the sites need improvement.
• Text stories - Rather than waiting until Wednesday to upload text stories, they should be written for the site as soon as possible then updated once you have more detail (such as quotes and better pictures.)
• Social media strategy - Ensure you have a separate, professional twitter account and follow as many relevant people and groups to your beat as possible to help spread word of WINOL (you should also feel free to tweet links directly to people than you know are likely to have an interest in it.)
• Picture by-lines - To make the site look more professional and encourage you to produce more articles for the website, we are trying to introduce picture by-lines so that everyone can see your beautiful faces next to your work; to put this into operation we will need our best photographer to take a photo of each of you which I am currently in the process of trying to organise; in the meantime, I need to work out which of you has the best photographic skill so that the pictures are of the best possible quality.
• COMPASS Meeting - Our chief reporter has been asked to film an important meeting with Police and Crime Commissioner (Mr Simon Hayes) and Chief Constable Andy Marsh and needs to assemble a team to help with this; if you are interested please contact either me or Spencer as soon as possible.
• Radio - Nadine is currently trying to organise a regular set of radio shows and needs a completely dedicated and driven radio team to support her efforts; if you are interested, please contact either me or Nadine.
• Presenting - If you are interested in presenting the bulletin (or anything else for that matter) please contact me and I'll try to draw up some kind of rota
• Editor Conferences - From now on, there will be regular Editor meetings on Mondays after the News, Sports and Features conferences, please ensure you attend if you are on the Editors list (or no biscuits for you)

 If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact me or any of the editors.