Recent UCLan broadcast journalism graduates have been snapping up jobs across the industry.

They have secured jobs at Sky, the BBC, local radio and one graduate even works with Noel Edmonds.

Emma Forrester, who graduated with a degree in journalism in June, has started working at Sky in the research and library department. Her role is to log all of the footage that researchers and reporters may want.

She said: “The role is quite technical. I have to burn a lot off footage on to DVD’s and check the footage has been logged and digested. I am excited and proud that I have got a job with Sky as the interview itself was extremely difficult. Although I have started on a junior position I am glad I have this opportunity so soon to gain experience and work within a news environment.”

Donny Osmond

Ciara Emmott also chose the broadcast route in the final year of her degree and has already worked with Donny Osmond on a BBC quiz show called Identity. She now works on the TV game show Deal or No Deal hosted by Noel Edmonds.

She said: “On Deal or No Deal I’m a runner and at the moment I’m working on the audience team. We film three shows a day so it’s quite repetitive but lots of fun. Other parts of the job include studio and gallery work.”

She added: “Identity was great fun to work on. It was my first real TV job so I was nervous to begin with but by the end of the first week I was auditioning contributors and the whole team were really easy to get on with.

“It was also good to work with Donny Osmond – he was a lovely man and even gave me a shoulder rub one day between filming!”

Sharon Hayes is a Broadcast Journalist at Fire FM radio station in Bournemouth.

She said: “The station is very young and vibrant, so my news style has to sound conversational which is a true skill. I find and produce local news stories and check IRN for all the latest national news. I then produce a fifteen minute news programme “Firewire” which goes out at 2 o’clock.”

She feels the training on her course has really paid off.

“I enjoyed presenting and camerawork. We only had a short time to learn a lot of stuff and I think out lecturer Deborah did a really good job of teaching us everything we needed to know and really making sure we knew it so that it became second nature.”

Ciara added: “When I tell employers that I studied journalism at UCLan they are really impressed. I never realised what a well known university it was and how credible it is with prospective employers.”

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