Jobs success for BJTC students

All six winners of the 2005 BJT/GCap Media Young Broadcast Journalists of the Year have moved smoothly  from their accredited courses into the broadcasting industry.

At the awards presentations at Capital FM in Leicester Square, they talked about  how they moved straight into work after graduating.

Katharine Begg, from Goldsmith's College in London, who won the radio category's now working as a development researcher in the independent sector for At It productions.

Carmel O'Grady, from the University of Central Lancashire course, runner up in radio's now a contract reporter at BBC R. Cumbria and Carla Wright, placed third, from the Nottingham Trent University course is now working on C5's Trisha Goddard Show.

Callum Thomson, winner of the tv category's now working as a producer/reporter on BBC Scotland's Newsdrive" programme. His colleagues from UCLan were Suzanne Beeley, now a reporter with Channel M, Manchester's local tv station and Alice Taylor now a full time researcher with BBC R4 in Glasgow.

Tom Beesley, BJTC chairman, said " They've all done really well but it's not surprising - the conversion rate to work from all our accredited courses remains high in spite of redundancies in the industry." 

 

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