Mentees Mentee advice from Niall McDonald 1 Feb 2015 I work as a Writer/Producer for 'The World Right Now' on CNN International. My journalism career in the last year has been anything but conventional. I moved jobs twice during…
Mentees Mentee news – Laura Trueman 1 Feb 20151 Feb 2015 I have been a Broadcast Journalist for the BBC in Belfast for almost five years now and work across radio, online and politics. I first came to the BBC during…
Mentees Mentee news – Emma Burrows 1 Feb 2015 Sometimes timing is everything. I found out I had been paired up with a mentor at the same time as I was offered two chances to go and work in Moscow…
Mentees… The best advice I received: Imogen Barrer 31 Jan 20145 Feb 2014 Imogen Barrer, an ITV News producer, passes on three key pieces of advice from her mentor, Alan Grady, executive producer, Sky News. Try as many things as possible when you’re…
Mentees… The best advice I received: Sarah Fowler 30 Jan 201430 Jan 2014 Sarah Fowler, a BBC News journalist, explains how her mentor Christopher Wyld, the director of the Foreign Press Association, has helped her make some tough decisions about her career. I'm…
Mentees Elizabeth Anderson – Mentee 10 Jan 201310 Jan 2013 I started in journalism by doing the Broadcast Journalism postgraduate diploma at Cardiff University, which I finished in 2010. I knew I wanted to specialise in business reporting, so from…
Mentees Stuart Duggan – Mentee 29 Oct 201226 Nov 2012 I am a freelance broadcast journalist. I mainly work at Sky News in London. I first became interested in broadcasting whilst studying at the University of Sussex, where I studied…
Mentees Holly Jones – Mentee 20 Oct 201222 Oct 2012 For the past two years, I have been a Broadcast Journalist at the radio station Heart East Anglia in Norwich. The reason why I applied for the John Schofield Trust mentoring scheme…
Mentees Jack Aldwinckle – Mentee 15 Oct 201215 Oct 2012 The scheme has been a wonderful opportunity for me to benefit from the experience of a hugely talented journalist. In the past I've sometimes felt uncomfortable seeking advice - worried…
Mentees Keith Moore – Mentee 15 Oct 201215 Oct 2012 I’m currently a feature writer for the BBC’s website. It’s a new role and I’m working on creating original multimedia stories that combine the best of traditional broadcast journalism with…
Mentees James Banks – Mentee 15 Oct 201215 Oct 2012 As a relative latecomer to the world of journalism I was keen to get as much guidance and advice to establish myself in my new career as quickly as possible.…
Mentees Holly Wallis – Mentee 15 Oct 201215 Oct 2012 I am currently working as a broadcast journalist for BBC News Online. I joined the UK team six months ago, just in time for the Diamond Jubilee, London 2012 Olympics…
Mentees Natalia Rolleston – Mentee 15 Oct 201215 Oct 2012 I’m a broadcast journalist working for BBC World Service News & Current Affairs in London. I've been a reporter for the BBC in Devon and Guernsey, an assistant producer/ researcher…
Mentees Olivia Feld – Mentee 15 Oct 201221 Oct 2012 I’m currently a researcher on Radio 4 news programmes, working on the World at One, PM, The World This Weekend and Broadcasting House. I joined the BBC two years ago as…
Mentees Shaunagh Connaire – Mentee 15 Oct 201215 Oct 2012 I’m an Irish journalist currently working for Channel 4 Unreported World. Having trained as an accountant with KPMG, I decided to chase my journalism dream in London three years ago.…
Mentees Will Mott – Mentee 15 Oct 201215 Oct 2012 I began work at ITN in the summer of 2008 working for the online team before getting the job as the intern in the ITV News Washington bureau. I helped…
Mentees Tom Brown – Mentee 15 Oct 201215 Oct 2012 I work at BBC East Midlands Today in Nottingham. My job includes anything from producing bulletins and cutting pieces to reporting out in the field and presenting in the studio.…
Mentees Adam Lindsay – Mentee 15 Oct 201215 Oct 2012 I’m a freelance news and sport broadcast journalist, mainly working at Sky News, IRN and UKRD. I’ve been a journalist for four-and-a-half years, having started my career in radio production…
Mentees Caroline Anning – Mentee 15 Oct 201215 Oct 2012 I'm a broadcast journalist at the BBC, currently working for World News Online writing international news and features for the BBC's website. I got a place on the John Schofield…
Mentees Emily Purser – Mentee 15 Oct 201215 Oct 2012 When people ask what I would be doing if I wasn't a journalist, and I tell them I never thought of any other options, they tend to look surprised. It…
Mentees Dhruti Shah – Mentee 15 Oct 201215 Oct 2012 I’m a broadcast journalist working in the BBC’s newsroom in London. I’ve spent time at Radio 1 and Radio 1Xtra as a trainee, a researcher at Panorama, a writer for…
Mentees Naomi Scherbel-Ball – Mentee 15 Oct 201215 Oct 2012 For the last two years I have been working in foreign news as a freelance reporter and producer. I started out working in the BBC’s Paris bureau and then returned…
Mentees Max Preston – Mentee 14 Oct 201215 Oct 2012 I'm Max Preston, and I’m very proud to be a John Schofield Trust mentee. I must confess that, before I applied for the scheme, I had been somewhat rudderless in…
Mentees Josh Strauss – Mentee 14 Oct 201221 Oct 2012 I'm a video producer for the Guardian Newspaper. I started at the Guardian under the Scott Trust Guardian Films internship, working on long form investigations into social injustices and human…
Mentees Imogen Walford – Mentee 14 Oct 201215 Oct 2012 "Why do we cover political conferences anyway? What should we be showing?” This is a typical challenge John McAndrew has thrown down to me in one of our mentoring meetings,…