Wintec News

Fieldays is here...read all about it!

Posted On: Wednesday, 15 June 2011

Each year our journalism, photography and graphic design students create the Fieldays Exhibitor - a daily newspaper about New Zealand's largest agribusiness event.

This is the eighth year that Wintec students will be providing a daily record of the National Agricultural Fieldays at Mystery Creek which runs from June 16-19.

The Fieldays Exhibitor, sponsored by Gallaghers, is handed out free to exhibitors at 6am each day as they queue to enter the grounds.

Journalism course co-coordinator Charles Riddle believes the project is the only one of its size on a daily deadline in any journalism school in the country.

“It’s a great real-time learning situation for our students who have to come to terms with producing media to strict real deadlines. They usually enjoy the experience of applying classroom learning to the real world.”

This year, for the first time, the stories are also online at The Waikato Independent.