Aldate

Neck and Neck again

Too close to call

3-0 to the red top

OxStu pulls its socks up, but Cherwell just edges it

Don't nominate yourself. Please, it won't even look good on your CV.

It's the grand relaunch of Oxide today, only I can't listen

Round 1, and Cherwell lands some heavy punches

Did you miss me?

Aldate is wondering when "nougth" week ends... Can any OxStu types shed any light?

Welcome back, journo-hacks

Don't look now Isis-types

Sunday Times editor John Witherow will be speaking to the Media Society tonight at the Oxford Union, 7pm.   Try not to beg for work experience. It's so undignified.            

4pm Iffley Sports Centre, for anybody that wants to see journos outside their office habitat.   Team line-ups are a closely guarded secret, but Aldate can exclusively reveal that Cherwell's 11 players will have up to 15 surnames, of which three are hyphenated.

Aldate isn't sure whether "He's back!!!!!1111one" is the best way to open a headline.  Sure, it adds cheeky tabloid indignation to the whole affair.  But to others it could easily be substituted with "90% of this copy will be rehashed arms dealer story".  Still, Aldate is sure the donations thing is of interest to those with a conscience.  Must be an OUSU thing. A bit like running a pirate radio station for two years.  PR tip: if you're doing something dodgy, don't use it as an argument on a blog primarily read by journos.  Many DJs will be glad to hear that the journo in question is going into exile next year.  Aldate, however, will still be here to aid the station in its leaps forward in professionalism, to use the party line. Cherwell news was far too dominated by Wadham, but both papers came out with strong news sections.  The beer-swigging examiner story isn't as strong as it looks, the clue lying in column 2:

  Strange.  They manage not to print the same page twice on the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, People, Daily Record, Sunday Mail, Racing Post, Laif, RecordPM, Sunday Sun, Birmingham Mail, Birmingham Post, Sunday Mercury, Coventry Telegraph, Polish Express, Echo, Daily Post, Examiner, Evening Gazette, Chronicle, Citylife, Newslanka, FTN, Catholic Times, The Nation, Gair Rhydd, The Courier, Islamic Times, The Universe, The Door, East End Life, Eastern Eye or North West Angler.   Conspiracy? 

Only two issues to go...   What did it for you this week?   OxStu: Cheaper teachers don't teach as well; Poorer colleges can't spend as much on teaching. Cherwell: Boatie banter   Update: Apologies if you were expecting the full monty.  Just amuse yourself with more Aldate fallout .

Aldate has been thinking a little more about the podcast thing.   All it takes to get quotes on news stories is a quick phone call, and cutting them into useful chunks doesn't take too long at all.  So maybe the Oxide news team should think about a weekly news podcast, speaking to the people involved in the stories that the papers have covered.   Given that the OxStu are in the room next door, getting the contact details needn't be a huge problem either.   A quick response to a comment in the liveblog post:   Having carefully read Aldate's advice, it seems to me that he'd have us scrap Oxide as a live medium  True.   and use it for podcasting only; Also true.   (although he doesn't think anyone will actually listen to the podcasts Wrong.  Aldate said "not many people would listen to them unless they were rea

Once, twice, three times a fuck up.   Aldate extends his sincere thanks to HK. Michelmas' listings brought back happy memories of when OxStu could observe the basic rule of printing the right things on the right pages..   Still, at least you're not Oxide.

Aldate liveblogged a day in the life of Oxide radio, angering a lot of people in the process.  It is archived after the jump.    

Aldate intimated in his first post this term that nobody listens to Oxide, the student union's radio station.  OUSU's esteemed VP (Finance) nobly defended his DJs and DJettes in his first week report :   "Oxide is performing well; continuing the strides forward in professionalism and reform of the station. Who knows, perhaps the claims of its irrelevance made by Cherwell's new gossip columnist, Saint Aldate, is actually securing the station's place in the minds of both his readers... "   Continuing the strides forward in professionalism?  Not what Aldate experienced at the time that report was written, but this open-minded saint only thinks it fair that the station be given another chance.   What sort of strides forward could have been taken?  A package of beds, jingles, stagers and sweepers to give the station a strong brand identity, perc