Firstly I have to apologise for neglecting my blog since Christmas time, I know bad girl! :O I have been sooo busy during January with my four weeks work placement. I really enjoyed my work placement, it gave me a great insight into the proper world of journalism and how it works. My first placement was at the News Letter in Belfast which was brilliant! I had a really enjoyable week, working for the first couple of days with the features team and then on the Wednesday I got to go to the City airport to meet, legendary voiceover man for the X Factor and E4 Peter Dickson, he was a true gent and very funny! I even got a recording on my dictophone of him saying RACHEL ADEIJEI in his booming tones, love it! :) I had that article printed in the paper as well as a few others that week so it was a sucessful week I have to say!
The next two weeks I spent working at the Mid Ulster Mail in Cookstown a little closer to home and i have to say I really really enjoyed my time there! It was probably because it wasn't as far from home and I was much more familar with the surrounding area. I absolutely loved my 2 weeks there and hope be back there in the future. I also managed to get quite a few articles published there over my 2 weeks so again...a happy bunny! :)
My final week of placement was spent at the Daily Mirror in Belfast. Another thoroughly enjoyable week. I managed to get my story printed after only one day and on Page 11 :) soo I was over the moon with that as well! I really enjoyed getting to see how a proper regional office of a national paper worked, it was great experience working with so many different journalists in a busy newsroom. So yet again it was a very enjoyable week with a few bylines again to my name! :)
I have cut outs from the paper of all my stories which I will definitely treasure forever. I am going to put them in a nice display folder so that I will be able to showcase my work to future employers! :)
I am now back in Liverpool after a really long time at home and it was so hard to leave my bf and my family :( But I know now I have to really put the work in for these next few months because after that and before we all know it, we will be (hopefully) graduating and setting off for the big bad world of Journalism employment!! A scary thought for sure, but at the same time...exciting times!! :)
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