Budding media moguls: Find your match

It can sometimes seem that there are almost too many societies to join at Warwick. As a fresher last year, I regarded the list of societies with amazement, and due to the subsequent FOMO (that’s in the dictionary now, apparently) I suffered, I ended up relieving myself of most of my money on membership fees for a range of media and political societies. But it doesn’t have to be like this – let me give you a brief and shamelessly biased guide to Warwick’s collectives of activism and reportage.

Obviously the best media society to join, and indeed Ones to Watch’s Student Publication of the Year 2013, is The Boar. This fine organ has a section for virtually everything you could think of, from its excellent Comment section to Music, Sport, Money, etc. There is also a News section. Go ahead and send in a piece – at the very least you’ll be featured on the website, and should you attend the fortnightly pitching meetings, you might even get into the paper. There’s a really great sense of community around The Boar, and there is nothing quite like seeing your work in print.

there is a great range of societies to join in terms of politics and the media at Warwick.

Elsewhere, The Warwick Globalist offers longer pieces with an internationalist outlook, and swanky launch parties for good measure. If you have something to say about global issues that you’d like to see published in a glossy magazine, this is the place for you (your correspondent was especially keen on their inaugural edition’s lead piece on democracy and globalisation, but then again, I wrote it).

RaW (Radio Warwick) offers lively chat, sound music choices (mostly) and good fun. Just don’t swear in the middle of the day, as happened on a show a friend of mine co-hosted last year… There’s also Warwick TV for aspiring presenters and producers, Writing Society (for that novel you’ve been writing) and Warwick Student Cinema, where you put on films in exchange for cheap tickets and pizza.

So clearly, then, there is a great range of societies to join in terms of politics and the media at Warwick. It may seem obvious, but the most important thing is just to get involved and see what happens – you’ll soon work out what you like, and the rest you can write off as Freshers’ enthusiasm. Your bank account might not see it that way, though.

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