Irish Times: Day 4

Today was my last in the Irish Times. We spent the morning with features. This is the department involved in reporting anything that is not news, business or sport. They produce various supplements throughout the week including 'The Ticket', the motoring supplement and the health supplement. We were told how articles are decided on, and we were tasked with finding appropriate articles in the main section of the paper that could be covered more in-depth as features articles.

Then we looked at different headlines; those that we felt were effective, and those that we felt were not so effective. We were told about how headlines and articles are often changed when they are published on the Irish Times website. We came up with suggestions about how we could shorten a variety of headlines to make them suitable for online.

In the afternoon, we headed to the sportsdesk. We met the editor of sport, who told us about his job, and about how the Irish Times cover sport. We were then tasked with coming up with headlines for a number of topical sports stories.

After that, we went upstairs to MyHome.ie . The site allows estate agents and auctioneers to place houses up for sale. We were told about one of the website's sources of income; advertising. It was our job to design a banner advertisement that would be suitable for the website.

I thoroughly enjoyed my week in the Irish Times. We got to see many of the departments in the newspaper and meet lots of people, all of whom were willing to answer any questions we had.