BBC TV correspondent Catherine Marston returned to her roots with a recent visit to the Department. Catherine graduated from our Postgraduate Broadcast Journalism course ten years ago, and is now one of the BBC’s leading northern correspondents on the 6 o’ clock news.

During her visit, she played some of her interviews to postgraduate broadcast journalism students, demonstrating how effective the TV medium can be.

She said: “All the students were very keen to find out what the job really involves and I think it was something of an eye opener for them to discover what the reality is like.

“Hardly any of the job is actually in front of the cameras – the glamourous bit. It’s much more about finding the right people to talk to, finding examples of cases that illustrate a story and finding locations and organizing filming.

“I work all week but am on call 24/7. I could be called out any time. Day or night.”

After graduating from Preston, Catherine began her career at Signal radio in Stoke-on-Trent, before moving to BBC Newcastle, where she was spotted and moved to work nationally for the BBC.

Mike Green, Course Leader, said: “Catherine clearly does her job with great style and character. The students were very impressed by her visit. They were still talking about it the next day.”

Emma Douglas, a 3rd year TV journalism student said: “It was really helpful. It was good to see someone from the university having done so well. It was very inspiring for us.”

Catherine’s husband, Steve Blears, who works at Radio One Newsbeat is hoped to be guest lecturing at the university in January.

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