I have just completed four weeks live broadcasting for Bradford Community Broadcasting (BCB 106.6fm), as a team we took over their hourly bulletins from 8am to 6pm. During this period I took on the editorial role for four shifts, on one such shift we covered the ten year anniversary of the Bradford riots and had a news flash announcing the closure of the News of the World. I was also editor the day that the Milly Dowler court case was concluded, and made the editorial decision not to include the defendant's past convictions in our news reports, despite the fact that other news outlets were. This meant that we were not in contempt of court when other organisations were. I also took four news reading shifts, and during reporting shifts I did live inserts into the bulletin from locations, as well as producing voicers, wraps and audio. During this period we worked across platforms by writing our stories for online, alongside photographs and extended audio. You can see the work I produced for our online site at www.bcbnews.blogspot.com. This month of live broadcasting also gave me the opportunity to experience working breakfast and drive time shifts.

A recent success I am particularly proud of is a month long Radio 4 Woman's Hour placement that I competed for and won as a result of a pitch that I submitted.

 

I spent a year as News Editor for Newcastle Student Radio, this involved overseeing a news team, selecting content, editing articles and presenting a weekly half hour news show. The news show consisted of a news bulletin, current news articles with interviews or vox pops and comment pieces reflecting on issues or stories that have been in the public eye. I also set up NSR's first daily news bulletin, which was played on the hour throughout the day. I maintained a news team blog so that articles featured in the show could be viewed online.

I was also News Editor for Newcastle University Television Society, this involved coming up with ideas for short current affairs films, filming and editing. A particularly proud moment was when we got exclusive footage of Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney, when he visited Newcastle University and read a poem that the university had commissioned from him.

During my degree I chose to do a module in documentary production, this involved studying documentary theory and producing, filming and editing my own three minute documentary. The subject of my documentary was the city of Newcastle Upon Tyne and my personal feelings about leaving it in order to pursue my career as a journalist.

I have also organised and completed work experience placements with the news team at Metro Radio in Newcastle and with the Inside Out team at BBC East Midlands.

I have spent much of my spare time in the last few years travelling, often tying it in with voluntary work. I took a GAP year before university and spent 3 and a half months in Southern India, teaching english as a foreign language in primary schools. I have also spent three weeks working with a HIV awareness charity in Namibia, giving awareness lessons in local schools and running kids clubs. During my degree I joined a charity hitch hike to Morocco for a charity called Link which runs educational projects in Africa. I have also spent my summers backpacking to countries such as Mexico, China, Cuba and Tunisia.

I grew up in Nottingham and have spent the last three years at university in Newcastle Upon Tyne, I therefore know both cities well. I am now living and studying in Leeds. I have a full driving license, and own a car.