Anne Reevell’s advice for journalism students
Anne Reevell addressing the Centre for Journalism today said if you walk into a work experience placement without knowing about the organisation and the work they do then you will face “instant death”. She said: “When you send out your CVs make sure that you have watched something that the production company has produced.” “What does surprise me with people who come and work with us is that they don’t watch TV enough and they’re not reading newspapers enough. People should be reading op/ed pages, they should know what is going on in the news and be fluent in world...
Read MorePeter Simmonds’, Assistant-Editor BBC TV News, tips for journalism students
Peter Simmonds, Assistant-Editor of BBC TV News, visited the Centre for Journalism today. During his journalistic career he has worked across commercial radio, Sky News, 5 Live, BBC World News and more. Simmonds has spent the last 16 years at the BBC, during which he says ‘things have changed a lot’. “When I started there wasn’t any online journalistic presence.” He also added that the ‘BBC used multimedia quite slowly at first’. When asked the question of tips for getting a job he said when he was starting out he ‘managed to get a job in the downturn’. He offered the...
Read MoreMark Thompson’s salary
Last Wednesday Mark Thompson visited the University of Kent to deliver a lecture at the Centre for Journalism’s inaugural Bob Friend Memorial Scholarship event. You can view the CfJ’s coverage on our website. And you can read my piece on Journalism.co.uk too. If you scroll to the end of the Cover It Live section you’ll find Ian Reeves’ question unanswered. Seeing as the CfJ itself hasn’t actually enlightened you on Thompson’s answer – I will. However, someone seems to have taken my notebook, thus it will be from my rusty old memory. Thompson started by posing the rhetorical...
Read More