the strathbungo torch from paul of navarone on Vimeo.
I came across this video of the ‘Strathbungo Torch’ about an American newspaper of the 1950s or ’60s. It is a lovely and highly professional five minute video about a community paper with interviews and narrative from journalists and readers talking about the newspaper and its place in the community. Their editorial approach is epitomized in two lovely quotes from the editor who said:
The day we get no complaints is the day we put out a dull newspaper…
The day that the newspaper comes out and everybody reads it and nobody’s mad, you’re almost dead certain that that was a bad newspaper.
He talks about “light and dark places in the community” and the paper’s place “to suggest how things can be improved”.
The BungoBlog is, I suppose, our equivalent of ‘The Strathbungo Torch’ with the potential to better report on Strathbungo’s news, views, politics and society, but I believe is in need of an editorial refreshment (as well as the visual one we have already done) to better engage residents. In the new year I’ll draft an editorial policy which I will put on the blog and present to the Strathbungo Society for your views on how best to take the BungoBlog forward to make it more engaging, more interactive and more provocative. I’d be very interested in views on what we can do with the BungoBlog so please do leave comments or drop me an e mail to let me know who you think.
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