Final shift at Gem Radio News

Today I finished my last shift at Gem Radio News in Nottingham. Since February 2018, I have been lucky to freelance alongside my studies as a Radio News Journalist. Special thanks to Laura Scigliano, Tom Hilton, Katy White and Dom Ellis at Gem for their continued support and mentoring.

In the role, my duties included:

• Adapting press releases into audience targeted news stories
• Liasing with company communications managers to source interviews to broadcast
• Conducting and editing said interview clips, and then producing the accompanying copy to be read.
• Collect VoxPops in the City Centre to react to viral stories, such as plans to ban plastic straws (as heard below)   Date of Broadcast May 22-05-19. 

I was also expected to gather video content when covering stories out of the office. This encouraged my skills as a digital journalist, and allowed me to realise production of quality content with a smartphone. 

My favourite examples of stories I worked for at Gem Radio News can be seen below.

The @RSPCA_official site in Radcliffe-On-Trent in #Nottinghamshire is offering sessions where children read to bunnies to help improve their literacy and knowledge of animal welfare.

Ella Carpenter is the manager there: pic.twitter.com/pJND8m0SWi

— Gem News (@GemRadioNews) March 24, 2019

Azeem from @UPHD_Nottingham @United_PHD told us they’re striking in #Nottingham because the pay doesn’t justify the costs.

Uber says it’s continuing to work to improve the experience for and with drivers. pic.twitter.com/fs0rjWrhR0

— Gem News (@GemRadioNews) May 8, 2019

Ambitious plans to bring the UK's biggest children's library to the East Midlands are a step closer after plans were approved to build it in #Nottingham.

The City Council has given the go-ahead for it be included in the Broadmarsh development: pic.twitter.com/ZQUGU0jTCd

— Gem News (@GemRadioNews) November 25, 2018

If you'd like to see more of my work within radio news, head to the Radio News Portfolio section of my site.