Welcome to my digital portfolio. My name Reece Payling, I’m 18 and a Creative Media student studying journalism and social media.
I’m out going and easy to talk to. I hope to go to university to study hospitality because its something that I’m passionate about and really enjoy.
Heres just a few of the pieces of work that I have produced and haved loved writing.
Dear Sir or Madam
I am sending you my CV and cover letter about the current job position, Duty Manager for true north brew c.o. After reading your job description I would like to apply for this role within your company.
As I have mentioned on my CV I have experiences within the hospitality business, from working at The British Oak as a waiter, I have gained all sorts of skills to add towards this job that I am applying for. These include being passionate about quality of food and drink. Dealing with customers who have had bad quality food or complaints because of this, I have been able to build a knowledge and understanding of how important quality is for the customer. This has made me care about quality of food and drink that will be presented to the customer. This leads me onto customer satisfaction, where in this area, I am 100% committed to delivering the needs and expectations to the customer.
From starting this job at the beginning I had very little experience in working in this sort of environment, from then I have learnt a wide range of skills which I have explained in my CV. I always have a positive attitude towards my job and customers in order to deliver the best customer service I can give.
I feel like this job can help be build further on my skills and learn more about the hospitality industry.
Yours Faithfully
Reece Payling
Personal statement-
I am a confident and reliable individual who puts thier all in to any task that is presented to me. I am motivated and quick to learn skills needed in any work environment. I really love working with people. I have great communication skills and can talk to anyone on their own or in front of a crowd. I am confident when presenting and will have no problem adding a bit of humor to focus the audience. I really enjoy spending time with my family. It is one of the most important things in my life. I love to travel and explore new places and experience different cultures. I like food and drink and always like to try new things.
Education
Hillsborough College – 2015 – Present
UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma in Creative Media Production (Journalism and Social media)
Westfield School – Sheffield sept 2000 – June 2015
GCSE Results in the following subjects:
Additional Qualifications-
Work Experience-
THE START – Sept 2016 – Present
I have been writing for the Sheffield star as part of my current college course which has been helping with my journalistic skills and basic writing. I have really been enjoying it because its exciting to see if your piece of work has been good enough to be put in. Its just a extra bit of acknowledgment of your work been good.
BRITISH OAK – Sept 2015 – Oct 2016
I have taken part in activities that demonstrate my interest in hospitality the main one been a job. I worked in a Pub part time which showed me the path of hospitality. I had been there 12 months and loved every minute of working there, from the customers that come in to the staff that I worked with. The reason I am passionate about working in the hospitality business is the challenges I am presented with on a daily basis and having to overcome them. My duties include taking of food & drink orders, using their reservation system, seating and greeting customers, delivering food and drinks to tables, clearing tables and cash handling.
As well as this work experience I had some opportunities in festivals and weddings, I helped serve food and drink and take orders.
Skills –
Whilst I have been in education I have always been devolving my skills trying to have a broad set, here are some of my skills I, and others, think.
Please feel free to ask for a reference on requested
Yours Faithfully
Reece Payling
Surname, initial, (year of publication), (which addition), title, publisher, page number
The online journalism handbook – skills to survive and thrive in the digital age
Paul Bradshaw
liisa rohumaa
Pearson Education Limited
2011
Page 2-
“we’re all online journalists now. Whether we work for a newspaper, a broadcaster or a online outlet, our stories, pictures, audio and video appear online and what started out in print becomes archived on the web – from ink to hyperlink”
“some fear that ‘traditional’ skills of news gathering and news writing will disappear, and that technology will become more important that stories.”
“traditional skills remain central to the journalist’s craft.”
“online journalism is evolving and reports have to be adaptable.”
“users increasingly expect the news to come to them”
Third Edition, Online Journalism, Principles and Practices of News for the Web
James c Foust
Holcomb Hathaway publishers
2005
Page 6 –
“the internets first advantage is that it affords the audience greater control over information.”
“on the internet, more than with any other mediums, people have the power to choose the information they want when they want, retrieve it how they want and where they want.”
Page 11-
“the internet provides the potential for a greater level of audience involvement in the journalistic process.”
“this involvement ranges from simple commenting on stories all the way to citizen journalism, whereby stories are actually written by members of the audience.” .
ephemerajournal
Lise Lareau
The impact of digital technology on media workers: Life has completely changed
“All this digitization has meant a move away from equipment-based jobs.”
“Audio and video editing can be done on a reporter’s or producer’s desktop. Videotape no longer requires lighting or sound technicians.”
“The fact that digital equipment is easier to use has led to new expectations of how we work, and blurred job titles and job descriptions.”
“Citizen journalism has allowed the numbers of reporters and photographers to be lower. It may not have directly led to layoffs but it’s been an enabler of layoffs. The growth in numbers of amateur columnists and opinion writers is staggering.”
“the digital revolution prompted another disastrous series of events in journalism: it fuelled the great rush to media convergence”
“The problem is that every time one company bought a newspaper or TV station, the first thing they did was lay off people to pay for it”
“But now she says it’s faster. Gone are the rough deadline times of 12 noon and 5 pm. Now the expectation is file video, audio and print, all the time.”
“It’s all about getting those six paragraphs out faster than anyone else. The pressure is to beat the other news services’ online news.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/feb/20/what-effect-internet-on-journalism
What effect has the internet had on journalism?
Aleks Krotoski
20 February 2011
“The web’s effect on news reporting is considered the most clear evidence that this is a revolutionary technology: news editors – and in some cases, the governments that they observe – are no longer the gatekeepers to information because costs of distribution have almost completely disappeared.”
“If knowledge is power, the web is the greatest tool in the history of the world.”
“The process that happens before a story is published has also been transformed.
“The web has become the go-to point for the globe when it comes to getting information; it’s the same for reporters.”
“Online, they find a multiplicity of perspectives and a library of available knowledge that provides the context for stories. Increasingly, the stories are coming from the web.”
Evaluation
I personally feel like my Interview went well, after entering well mannered and confident I introduced myself and gave the interviewer a firm hand shake. The interview started with my CV. They gave me instant feedback on how it was, they said it was straight to the point but I should have put the work experience at the top of the page seen as it was the most relevant to the job.
I felt like I took my time to answer all the question confidently and didn’t rush when I was talking. They picked up on this and said that I did come across calm and confident which was going to be needed in the role that I was applying for.
On my CV I had mentioned that I have some software skills but I didn’t write down specifics but I was able to verbally tell them what I could use and do with the software. They also picked up on this and told me that I should go back and update this for the future.
I followed may of the interview techniques that I had research prier to the meeting. I dressed appropriately, researched the company and prepared my answers for the questions I thought was going to be asked.
Tittle –
An in-depth study of how digitalization has had an Impact on the role of the journalist and the industry of journalism.
Aims –
I am going to be researching how the digitalization of media has changed and effected the way the journalist works making the reader go online for there information. I am going to be looking at what the journalist has had to do to adapt to the current needs. The research I intend to carry out will include mainly secondary (academic) but will include some primary in the form of interviews. The secondary research will be collected from textbooks, online journals, Documentaries, Magazines and other books.
My hypothesis for my study is that the digitaliztion of the journalism industry has been for the best and has been one of the best technical advances in a long time. I expect to find out how technical advances has had an impact on journalists lives and how they have had to adapt to accommodate there audience, either this been online or in magazines. I also expect to find out that people have found it a hard transition this not just been the journalist but the read, the fact that they have had to learn how to get there information from somewhere else.
I expect my concussion will be that people have found it hard with this advance and transition but because it wants a overnight change they had the time to get there head around it both the reader and everyone in the journalism industry.
Rationale –
I feel like this will all help me develop as a journalist because I will be building on the skills I have been learning in the past units. For example; my research skills and been able to pin point information, writing in a concise way and using professional techniques. This is going to help me when it comes to my Final Project, which is going to be an online lifestyle magazine, because I will be able to understand what draws people to an online publication rather than print causing the transition of many journalists and how I can adapt my self to the role of a journalist in the current industry.
My online magazine is going to be based on lifestyle, which will include topics like; food and drink, travel, technology and many more. These posts will include feature writing, blog posts and reviews of chosen products.
Bibliography –
Rohumaa, L. and Bradshaw, P. (2011) The online journalism handbook: Skills to survive and thrive in the digital age. New York: Prentice Hall.
Foust, J.C. (2005) Online journalism: Principles and practices of news for the web /. Scottsdale, AZ: Holcomb Hathaway Publishing.
Lareau, L. (2017) The impact of digital technology on media workers: Life has completely changed. Available at: http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/impact-digital-technology-media-workers-life-has-completely-changed (Accessed: 3 February 2017).
Krotoski, A. (2011) What effect has the internet had on journalism? What effect has the internet had on journalism? Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/feb/20/what-effect-internet-on-journalism (Accessed: 3 February 2017).
The colour drained moroccan streets of tangier.
New born reindeer at Centre Parcs eating one winter morning.
Literature Review-
This report is about how digitalization has had an impact on the role of the journalist and the industry of journalism. I am going to be researching how the digitalization of media has changed and effected the way the journalist works making the reader go online for there information. The aim of my research has been to test my hypothesis. I have used both academic and cultural sources. The most of my research is from an academic source and I have chosen to mainly use these sources due to them been valid and had the time and research put in to them because they are all recently published.
My first research source; The online journalism handbook had both strengths and weaknesses to it. This book had key points that will be relevant when it comes to writing my study and I was able to gather plenty of quotes that will be used. Another strength is that it it current and relevant, because it was published in 2011.. Unfortunately, there was more information on how to “thrive in the digital age” than actual the transition and how this has affected the journalist. This source is reliable and will help me write my study essay by giving me quotes on how the digitalization has had a impact on journalism .
My second source; Online Journalism, this book talks about principles and practices of news for the Web. This book had some relevant information that I will be able to use when it come study but it didn’t have as much as I first thought when looking at the title. It took me a long time to find the reliable and valid quotes within this source which is a weakness of this book. I do think this book is a valid and reliable source to my specialist study and will help me to show how the digitalization of media has impacted journalism.
My third source is an academic journal from online the article is called The impact of digital technology on media workers. This journal has lots of great points and plenty of them I will be able to use in my specialist study. This source is very relevant when it comes to my study due to it been full of key information. This is both valid and relevant to my study essay and it help me when wanting to know how digitalisation has affected specific jobs.
My final source is a newspaper article written by a journalist. The article is called What effect has the internet had on journalism? This article had a few point that I will be able to use but again it took a long time to find what was going to be relevant to my study. I found some information on how the web has affected news reporting and technology has helped this, this is valid because it was a recently published article with recent views and will help me with my Study essay.
Overall, each of the sources I have used are all relevant and valid in some way and will help me when it comes to producing my specialist study. I think Books will help me the most because they have had been created by academics that have been researched before been written meaning that that there more valid to my study.
I have choose the highway fight scene from identity thief. In the scene you have Diana (Melissa McCarthy) and Sandy Patterso (Jason Bateman) driving down a highway somewhere in America, the sun is shining and the sky is blue. The arguments start when Diana starts using a bobby pin to remove a pair of hand cuffs and is successful. She then is persistent about Sandy pulling the car over, some people may say she was verbally aggressive with the choice of language. Sandy is trying to calm her down by suggesting they should go to a bar have a drink and a chat about what they are going to do. Diana “agrees” in a sarcastic voice but pulls a tiny bottle of pills out of her breasts and accuse him of going to drug her with zanax.
She then asked for him to pull the car over again and he gives in and pulls over, on a busy highway. Diana gets out of the car and swears at Sandy as she walks off. He jumps out of the car and threatens Diana by telling her he’s going to call the police and tell them theres a criminal with a known warrant out on that specific highway. After Diana hears this she sets off running.
In the last few weeks I have been producing a portfolio of work, which includes;
In this evaluation I’m going to talk about key principles of journalistic writing and what I did throughout writing all my pieces of work.
Some of these stories have been written differently, some are news stories which include interviews and a formal style. Some are features that have a more relaxed style but are still topical to the target audience. Finally some are photojournalism pieces, all three of these ways of writing include one thing which is opinions both mine and other peoples.
I self sourced most of my stories, there was only a couple that I used the Internet for. For example when writing and producing my Halloween piece I came up with the idea because it was the time of year and I used youtube to help me with a style which is https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=halloween+makeup+tutorial. It was different when writing my Brexit vs home article, I came up with and sourced this piece when the UK left the EU so it again was a current event .
I used the Internet to find out facts and figures, but mainly I used interviewing to find out what I needed to know and because I went to interview people I made sure that I talked to my target audience age range. The stories that I have written about are relevant to the audience because they are all current topics and things that people talk about all the time. I have used both types of research when writing my articles. Primary, I have gone out and interviewed people and got there opinions on the subject. Secondary, I have used the internet and website to help me get the facts and figures right. When thinking about what to write I thought about both me interests and my audience, I had to write articles that I was interested in and willing to spend time on but also the audience was going to like and read and I think I got that balance right.
When thinking about ethical standards, the only one that I could have come across is copyright but I made sure that any quote or image I used was copyright free.
When writing my articles I ensured accuracy and meeting deadlines but keeping to a schedule of having a minimum amount done by a specific time or day. I kept this accurate by keeping the same standard of writing though out. When conducting interviews I keep it light hearted so the people that I was talking to felt comfortable with talking, so it was very informal and quick but still been professional.
I knew the information that I was picking out was key because it was interesting for me, I thought if I was captured by what I was reading then my target audience would be too. When it came to the concept of planning the only thing I did was think about what I was going to write before starting it, I didn’t write anything down, which is something that I would change if I had to go back. I think the blog piece was easier not better, just because it was all my own opinions that I could get down on paper.
When it comes to strengths and weaknesses about my copy I think there is a couple. I think my strength is Blogs and when it comes to writing my own opinions, I think this is because I just find it easy to get them opinions down on paper and because I am a opinionated person I always have one. Looking at weaknesses that would have to be my interviews because I think I could have gotten more information out of the people I were talking to, this would have giving me more to have a opinion about. Another strength would be time management because I personally think I am good at getting pieces of work done to a specific time.
I do think my work would be fit for publishing becasue the content I have written about is relevant to my target audience and If I was the reader, I would find it interesting and would want to read it. The only problem that I faced when producing my copy was the interview I did on the Black Friday piece because at one point when I tried to interview the lady it was very busy and at one point I thought I was going to be unable to complete it.
When looking back on my work, the only thing I would have done differently is to plan out my copy and story ideas before starting to produce them. This might have give me a more direct focus on how to write the article I was doing at the time.
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