Bath Chronicle - Second Week

After the weekend, I started my second week at the Bath Chronicle back at the news desk. This week, I had a charity theme to the articles I was given: a charity country market day in Newton St Loe, a 600+mile cycle ride, again for charity, and a charity event to round off Colerne Rugby FC’s 25th year anniversary celebrations.

An example of one of these articles that was published in the paper and online is here, taken from Bath Chronicle's website:


Village's quarter of a century of country markets

There was family-friendly fun as two churches benefited from traditional spring fairs in and around Bath.

The Newton St Loe Country Market saw a sea of activity in the village and raised an estimated £6,000.

The event has been held annually for the past 25 years, with market stalls lining the streets of the village, selling items ranging from handicrafts and hand-made jewellery to photographs and greetings cards.

This year, the day featured a dog show, an art exhibition and competition, morris dancing and a live jazz band.

There was a miniature railway and stalls selling cakes, cream teas, meat and other food.

Joint organiser Celia Gay estimated around 450 people had attended the event, with the weather bringing out the crowds.

"It was the biggest, most successful day we've ever had," she said.

Several gardens were open to the public, creating what Mrs Gay called a "beautiful picturesque English scene".

Proceeds will go to Holy Trinity Church and the village hall.

Fellow organiser Wendy Simmons said: "I would like to pay tribute to all those who helped and to the generosity and forbearance of the people of the village. We owe a great debt of gratitude to the village."

Meanwhile, writer Bel Mooney opened the Friends of St Stephen's Church May Fair at Lansdown.

She donated signed books which sold well, alongside the cakes, raffle and tombola tickets, hot dogs and cream teas, nearly new books, clothes and bric-a-brac.

There was face-painting, races and games for children and the event raised about £1,000 for the group, which raises money to help maintain and improve the 19th-century church.

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I was much happier with the edit of this article, since there was a huge difference in how much they had changed to this one and how much they had changed the ones I had written the week before. The other ones were virtually unrecognisable; for this article, they only added in two sentences at the beginning and left the rest almost completely unchanged. Since I had learned from experience that the style of writing has to be according to their brand identity, I was able to change my style of writing to fit the newspaper's brand.

After researching, phoning contacts and writing up the articles, I was then asked to set up a photo op of an art exhibition called ‘Fusion’ happening the next day. I also wrote the article about the exhibition after speaking to the main organiser over the phone, seen below:

Website Art Group's Display

A group of artists who met through a creative networking website are staging an exhibition in Bath this week.

The event at the Walcot Chapel Gallery in Walcot Street is a direct spin-off of a site created by Fringe Arts Bath, an annual visual arts festival which runs hand in hand with the Bath Fringe.

Artist Jane Horton has organised the exhibition along with three other artists.

Although they all work using different media, Mrs Horton says that this is part of the appeal.

She said: "We wanted this exhibition to appeal to a wide range of people. That's why we decided to go through the networking site to join together."

The other artists taking part are Stanislav Mitura, Vikki Yeates and Mary Rouncefield.

The gallery is showing the exhibition, called Fusion, from 10am until 6pm tomorrow and until 7pm on Saturday.

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I was much happier with the edit of these article, since there was a huge difference in how much they had changed to these ones and how much they had changed the ones I had written the week before. The other ones were virtually unrecognisable; for the first article shown here, they only added in two sentences at the beginning and left the rest almost completely unchanged. Since I had learned from experience that the style of writing has to be according to their brand identity, I was able to change my style of writing to fit the newspaper's brand.