It's plainly obvious for anyone that actually looks at my blog that I haven't posted in forever. So to begin this post I will apologise, to myself, my lecturers, anyone who reads this blog and myself again. However, I have been extremely busy focussing on my new role on WINOL so therefore I have a slight excuse (not really). This term has put me through leaps and bounds so far, I was extremely apprehensive when entering my second year at Uni, as I knew it was going to be far more hard work than the previous year. As Journalism students at Winchester, we all make WINOL which stands for Winchester News Online and is our own student run news bulletin, magazine and online website run by second and third year students. My role this year originally started on features and production. I have always been interested in Fashion Journalism since senior school, focussing all my efforts on choosing subjects which would benefit me so getting the chance to produce features of my choice was quite a bonus for me. Consequently, two weeks ago I was given the chance to begin Features Fashion Editor, allowing me to run the new fashion website and produce features for this. Admittedly, I was extremely happy as what better a chance do you get to prove yourself than this? Some might say it's not that much of a big deal but in my opinion, if you get such a chance and put everything you can in to it, it's going to say A LOT to future employers. So, this has been my job for the past few weeks. I have so far, produced a main feature named Dr Fashion, where I basically go out through Winchester, find someone who dresses slightly ... well ... bad, and make them over. Apprehensive was an understatement when I began this feature however the end product was very successful and I'm actually very much looking forward to starting next months one. I have also been creating small features for the website which are Gossip and Fashion based, I have managed to recruit a few other features people who are helping me to produce features for the fashion page which comes in very handy with everything else I have to do. However, I am thoroughly enjoying every minute of what I'm doing at the moment which has always been my aim. You have to love your career and I've always been told the best way to do this is to make a career out of your hobby, well I love fashion and writing, that is me completely sorted.
My aim in the next year of working on WINOL is to stay on as features fashion editor, putting my all into the website and making it near professional standard. I believe that if I put all my effort in, the end result can be outstanding. So watch this space, hopefully this time next year I might have landed myself a Job as a fashion journalist ready for after I finish my course! Hmmm, we will see.
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