For three hectic weeks – around 40 Griffith University students had an opportunity that many reporters would envy – having access to and reporting on the Commonwealth Games at the Gold Coast.
Based from a pop-up newsroom at the Gold Coast campus for the duration of the Games, journalism, photography and public relations students were embedded alongside working journalists and Editors from Fairfax to produce eight editions of a special newspaper for the Athletes Village – called the Village Source.
It was a real-life working newsroom environment, and some students buckled under the pressure with tears and even vomiting as deadlines loomed.
But by the end of the Games, the struggles evened out with the incredible highs they experienced, with students having stories featured on national publications such as Brisbane Times, Sydney Morning Herald, Canberra Times, and also more than 10 radio stories broadcast on national radio show The Wire around Australia.
Journalism student Demi Lynch says being part
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