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► Will Grant

Vote for Will Grant for editor of Brig, and I’ll make your student newspaper even better.

Brig has always acted as the voice of the students.  It has never been used as a mouth piece for the union or for the University.  If elected, I pledge first and foremost to uphold this integral facet of Brig’s own mission statement.

Its purpose is to act as a service for each and every student at Stirling University.  I will ensure that it performs an even greater service to its readers and contributors in coming years.

First and foremost, I will ensure that the news quality of Brig will remain at the uniformly high standard it has already shown.  However, news means nothing if it isn’t new and up to date.  That is why I’m going to introduce a bi-weekly Brig.  It will reach our students twice a month, and retain the same news and entertainment values that it already has.

 

 

As a further service to students, I will include a new classifieds section in Brig.  This will help students reach out to one another for everything from sales of second hand goods and renting out rooms, to searching for people with shared interests and teaching foreign languages.  Our new classifieds section will do all this in one place, and will be clear and available for all to read. 

 

 

 

 

I personally want to encourage more citizen journalism from the students at this University.  Our newspaper once utilised “Brig boxes” all over the campus – wooden drop-in-boxes for students to submit their stories, ideas and suggestions.

I’m going to improve our website even further and re-introduce the concept of the Brig box.  This will ensure that students know exactly how to share their stories with us, and that your news remains exactly that – yours.

I will also ensure that Brig offers the service that it has always offered to its writers and contributors.  In the midst of the worst economic recession of modern times conventional career roles in journalism are being shrunk, dissolved and restructured, it is more important than ever that students at institutions such as Stirling University, a university which is meant to be at the forefront of media studies in Scotland, are offered the practical experience required to secure a place in an ever more competitive career market.

I, along with my counterparts in Air 3 and Air TV, will be working diligently to ensure that when students graduate from this university and seek future employment in journalism, media, photography, advertising, publishing or marketing, they will have practical and relevant experience to aid them.  I will also seek to implement a structure whereby participants are offered academic accreditation for there efforts.

My aim, if elected as the editor of Brig, is to further increase our already growing numbers of contributors.  We will offer them tutorials in both the production and writing elements involved in producing a newspaper, whilst allowing them to explore themes and topics that interest them.

 

 

We will increase the funding that we receive through outside advertisement and better social events.  This funding will then be used to secure new equipment such as cameras, dictaphones and computers specifically for the use of our production team. 

 

 

 

 

Finally, I will ensure that everyone who gives their time and effort to contribute to us knows that they are a part of Brig.

We will ask no membership fees of people.  We never have and, under my leadership, we never will.  Those who do decide to help our group on a regular basis will be offered press cards, Brig T-shirts and hoodies, as well being invited to all our social nights and events.  By doing this our members will know that they are part of something important which lies at the heart of Stirling University.

Vote for Will Grant as Editor of Brig, and I’ll make sure that we are all a part of something that we can be proud of.

 

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