Folllow Up from Sundays Meeting - Posted By Thabi on 06 Feb

Hi Everyone

I want to thank all of you for attending Sunday's meeting and i have a great travel story on Paris with beautiful pics to go with it. So although I missed the meeting on Sunday i totally made up for it. Thank you to Priya for making sure the meeting happens and making sure that you cover everything that was on the agenda, thank you for getting everyone together and the minutes show that it was a productive afternoon. well done to everyone!!!

1) I want to know what Flora thinks of the name in terms of Publicity and marketing...and did we make sure that the name does not exist as yet on the net?? is everyone happy with it? i will speak to David regarding the name but at least for the moment you have something to work with, as long as everyone likes it??? Do i like it?? I will get back to you on that one...

2) I would like some details from the editors regarding how they will choose the news of the week. have they decided how many people will do it? three or two/ The meeting will be held with myself or priya for the final decision on the news of the week...

3) The banners are great, however they are not particularly exciting...they don't scream young and fresh, they scream BBC...perhaps a colour change and font change...i know Ariel is still working on them, please give her feedback so she can start working with every one's ideas...

4) designers when will i get to see the template for the homepage??? please let me know...

5) Susha i like your feature story on F1 ( green light) and Vivian's new craze religion, what is it about??? Priya when is everyone expected to bring forth their written pieces???/ please send the timetable...

6) These are my proposed stories: Le Paris Nouveau ( Travel feature), SABC Blacklisting journalists from On air interviews ( Smmorgasbord), this is what i have for now...plus my note from the editor which i will write ones i have read every one's work as to know that the issue is about etc...

7) Can all team members state on the blog what stories they are working on ASAP please...

8) Podcast - Shashank and myself have some footage that we have been taking during class - some guests lectures from our investigative class. we can take feature stories that are not current affairs from some of our old stories that might work. the podcast producers will have to listen to the recordings and decide on the quality and the stories...

I believe there is much to do this week, the sooner we hand in our stories, the less stress we will be when the deadline arises. it will be a tough 2 weeks and I'm here if anyone needs help with story ideas or anything...please post comments or queries on the blog as i check it regularly...

kind regards

T