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Get a sneak preview of this year's Fusion and hear from the people behind the project with the latest Yorker videocast.
Tracy Chevalier chats to Kirsty Denison about her best-selling novel 'Girl with a Pearl Earring', her tips for aspiring writers, and her latest endeavours at York Art Gallery.
Unfortunately, due to technical problems beyond our control we have had to remove these videocasts until the problem can be resolved.
As each candidate was filmed for a lengthy period of time, the current problem only showed different lengths for each candidate.
As this is such a crucial week for the candidates, and our coverage, a decision was made, as the problem couldn't be resolved as quickly as possible, to removing the videocasts until each can be viewed in full.
We apologise to our readers, and the candidates for this problem, and I can guarantee this genuinely is a technical problem, and was not our attempt to show bias to any candidate.
If you wish to read each candidates policies, these can viewed on the YUSU voting page which shows each nomination form. We have also provided comprehensive interviews with each candidate in our 'Know your Sabb' campaign, and blogs written by campaigners on each team.
In response to various comments I would like to take this opportunity to point out that, under an agreement made with YUSU, candidates were to be listed in alphabetical order; thus Kunwar, Payne and Scott ('Tom' if via his official election form.)
We are working to rectify the problem and get the videocasts up as soon as possible!
If you have any concerns please email: editor@theyorker.co.uk
Great questions, but does anyone else find that the videos for Laura and Tom cut out before what seems should be the end? Laura's at 6:18 and Tom's at 2:15.
I think it is obvious Nadz is the best candidate here....
Apologies, we're having a few technical difficulties with the second and third videos, hopefully these will be fixed very soon.
Perhaps Adam should work on his posture - hunching over isn't conducive to TV journalism.
Yet another unbiased and impartial feature from The Yorker here - just what we have come to expect.
I very much hope that next year's candidates are forbidden by the returning officers from working with The Yorker, you have consistently proven yourselves to be untrustworthy and presented slanted opinions, and 'accidently' had technical difficulties that favour Nads, your financial director.
I hope that if Nads does get elected he considers not just media freedom but media training, as it is clear that The Yorker is in need of some - although as an unratified society it would be unable to benefit from it.
How many times does this have to be cleared up?! Nadz is not the financial director for the Yorker... he is a NON-OPERATION DIRECTOR... i.e. AN ADVISOR with no say over editorial content or policy!
Ahhhhh The Black Helicopters are striking again!
You're not being serious are you?
This article:
http://www.theyorker.co.uk/news/soapbox/1529/
Has been accused of Being Pro-Payne (Ha! it's a real gas!)
http://www.theyorker.co.uk/news/campusblog/1522
This one has stuff from everybody!
Good on the yorker, for actually trying to do some interesting and topical new media journalism I say. And bearing in mind that their embedded player works better for me than the BBC one most of the time I reckon they're doing ok
And no, I'm not a campaigner for anyone, I didn't vote for Nadz, nor do I have any affiliation to The Yorker, or the labour party, or the tories, or the sea-faring criminal rights alliance.
Perhaps a disclaimer something like what #7 wrote should be put next to the comment box for all election related articles, it'd probably save half the moderators' work and a lot of frustration. 
I do like the Yorker, but I do feel a bit let down by it's coverage of this election. I personally think the pro-Nadz slant has been too obvious and too self-serving. I do hope Laura wins. I think on balance her campaign deserves to. But good luck to all the candidates. They'll all deserve a rest by Friday I reckon!
This is ridiculous. The coverage has not been bias, one way or the other. If you take into account blogs, news reports and videocasts, media coverage has not only been impartial, but thorough.
I think you may be right in taking exception to the constant postings of "Go Nadz", "Vote Laura" or "The pirate to win," etc. but in no way does the Yorker have any bias towards Nadz and in suggesting he does, you are insulting the journalists and editors of this media venture.
Surely all the videos should be taken down until something can be done about said, ahem, "technical difficulties"? Otherwise candidates are being given unequal coverage in press opportunities, which has been carefully monitored by YUSU in other aspects of media coverage (e.g. all 3 defensive blogs for the Presidential candidates in The Yorker had to be published at the same time).
"and 'accidently' had technical difficulties that favour Nads, your financial director."
Unfortunately the technical problems are on YSTV's end, not The Yorker's, and were in no way deliberate. Nadz's interview was filmed on a different day to the other two (notice the change in attire of your reporter!), before the problems arose.
Apologies once again for the difficulties, we should be resolving them today. Keep an eye on https://ystv.york.ac.uk/watch/vids.php?cat=38 as the videos will probably end up on there before they get fixed here.
Unfortunately due to a genuine technical difficulty (to which a resolution is being sought) we have lost coverage of video-casts.
I’d like to clear up a few things, The Yorker is made up of three teams; Business, Technical and Journalist. The only time these three consciously meet is at a Directors meeting, as at least one person from each team is also a Director of the Company. This currently stands at Dom and I (Editors) Olly Ward (Operational Director) Chris Travis (Technical Director) and Nadz Kunwar (Non-Operational Director). At this meeting, the only content-based discussion is of how well a story went/was received. The news agenda is not discussed at this meeting.
I can wholeheartedly guarantee Nadz has no say, whatsoever on stories run, just as Olly or Chris do not, this is an Editorial decision, and any problems with these should be placed solely at the feet of the Senior Ed team. For the record, Nadz has been on the phone to me as much as the other candidates about any issues they have had with our coverage. His position to aid the development of the company, in a business sense, i.e. what we should be doing to secure the Yorker’s continued success.
We have given each candidate the opportunity to nominate a member of their team to write a blog in SUPPORT of their candidate, and others, including myself, have written broader overviews of either the process or the candidates, and these are our opinions (and the only place opinions are published is in Blogs or Reviews).
As for the comments written, it is our policy to allow comments to be live and removed if abuse is reported – this is much fairer and allows debate to flow freely, this does however mean that comments in support of each candidate can be published.
As an Editor and a Director of The Yorker if you have any concerns please email these to editor@theyorker.co.uk where Dom or I will address them.
Ruth
Very well said Ruth.
I really don't understand why people are so assertively trying to condemn a student based publication who are not being paid in any respect. They are doing their best to report news to you objectively and sufficiently, perhaps this should be taken into account before people press the submit button...is it necessary or constructive? If not, then you are just being deliberately difficult.
People are certainly doing their best.
@#16: So because they're unpaid and "doing their best" they should be above criticism? Nouse, Vision, URY and YSTV are also unpaid and "doing their best", but they have received just as much stick in the past as The Yorker has been getting recently.
I certainly don't think there's been some huge conspiracy at The Yorker to promote Kunwar, but for whatever reason, I do think that that some (certainly not all) of the elections news articles (not blogs) have had a pro-Kunwar slant, and with the obvious link between Kunwar and The Yorker (him being a director, and media being a big one of his policies) that makes it an easy target for criticism.
I still don't understand why Kunwar didn't make the simple decision of standing down from the position for the duration of the election period, it would certainly have avoided a lot of the criticism.
Hi Damian,
Nads was not interviewed on a different day to me. The reporter is wearing different clothes because it is a different person.
I am not saying the technical difficulties were purposeful, just wanted to clear this up!
Laura Payne
In response to the claims that The Yorker is biased towards Nadz...did anyone actually read Ryan's analysis article? A more anti-Nadz article The Yorker could not have published!
Come on guys, this is a bit silly, just more nit-picking - I can't see any latent pro-Nadz tones in this.
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