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New journalism course, new students, new job

By Julie Starr | Published: January 26, 2010
For the past few months I’ve been working to make the National Diploma in Journalism, a New Zealand industry standard qualification, available for online study through Wintec. It’s a big project which has demanded a lot of work by a core group of people and which has also involved a lot of imagining – how [...]
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The ups and downs of Fieldays Exhibitor 2009

By Julie Starr | Published: June 22, 2009
So the Fieldays Exhibitor is done and dusted for another year. Phew. Here are the front pages: You can see some of the stories at our new website, mediarts.net.nz, which aims to showcase the work of students of Wintec‘s School of Media Arts along with school events and some of the inspiring work our staff [...]
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Knocking the Fieldays Exhibitor into shape

By Julie Starr | Published: June 10, 2009
I’m two days into production of a four-day daily newspaper produced by Wintec journalism, design and photography students. It’s an awesome process to transform a space set up for teaching into a fully fledged newsroom for four days a year. We don’t have much kit. Content management system? Pah! say the beancounters to that. So [...]
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The Country Calendar guide to storytelling

By Julie Starr | Published: November 3, 2008
A week or so ago Frank Torley, the executive producer of Country Calendar, came to Hamilton to speak at Wintec's Media Bites function. Here's what he had to say on why the programme's so successful and how the team go about telling stories: "I don't know... I'd like to believe that the New Zealand public recognises quality. The beginning of that process is research. If anybody says 'Why is Country Calendar successful?' -- research, research, research. Keep doing it, find the story. What is the story, what are the people like, what else can we do?
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Country Calendar still hits the mark

By Julie Starr | Published: October 14, 2008
Country Calendar must be one of the few New Zealand media institutions that truly count as 'iconic'. The weekly programme, which casts light on NZ farming, hasn't looked back since its launch in 1966 and the current theme tune must be one of the most readily identifiable sounds for any Kiwi. This clip gives a glimpse of what the programme used to look, and sound, like.
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