For the eighth year running Wintec journalists, photographers and graphic designers will be providing a daily record of the goings on at the National Agricultural Fieldays at Mystery Creek in the Fieldays Exhibitor newspaper.
And this year for the first time the stories are also online at The Waikato Independent.
The project, which involves about 40 students, kicked off with the arrival of the Modcom building on site this week.
The building will be linked to a mobile satellite transmitter, which allows all stories to be sent back to the School of Media Arts design team at Wintec in the city, who in turn send the finished designed product to Print House in Frankton for overnight printing.
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.”
The Fieldays Exhibitor newsroom, on site L26, is a three tonne relocatable structure.