Month: February 2017

 

Jonathan Holmes graduated from University of Lincoln in 2012 with BJTC and PCC accredited First Class BA (Hons) in journalism. He is a digital broadcast journalist. Originally this wasn’t something that he was planning on doing when he left university. He is main brief is to look after the digital content that sits on the Radio Bristol’s Facebook and Twitter page. That means editing, filming and a lot of working with Points West reginal TV.  Jonathan started out as a broadcast assistant on BBC Radio Bristol’s breakfast programme, but he’s completely left radio behind for the brave new world of digital content. He is basically doing a brand new job without changing BBC sites. He is also a Youtube Channel owner that gets a growing rate of 1,000 hits a day. His channel also just recently reached 2,000,000 views.

We are looking forward to hearing from him at the Alumni Conference!

You can follow us during our LSEJ Alumni 2017 Event tomorrow (February 22nd) on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. We will be updating all the social media sites regularly through out the entire event. Just type in the hashtag to follow the event through out the whole day #lsjalumni2017

The day started off with the sun shining across the Brayford and Level 1 PR students entered the Cargill Theatre early at 1-1:30pm to set themselves up on the front row so to manage the social media pages for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
To start the event off, Jason Whittaker Head of English and Journalism, kick starts the day with a brief welcome talk. Leading on from this our keynote speaker and BBC Look East’s TV Journalist, Leigh Milner who graduated 10 years ago, gave a talk about how to successfully progress with your career after University. She began with showing us some of her work from her time at University, finished with her top tips and answered some interesting questions.

Angeline McCall spoke to us next through a highly-anticipated Skype call, which went without technical difficulties, we very much enjoyed hearing Angeline’s story of how she put herself out on the internet which successfully landed her a job at ABC-affiliate station. Following our talk with Angeline was a question and answer panel with Leigh Milner, Holly O’Finn and Jonathan Holmes, lots of very honest and useful answers were given by our panel which the current students found beneficial.

A quick ten-minute break to keep everyone refreshed is followed up by a pre-recorded Skype call from Dave Lee, unfortunately (as journalists do) Dave was busy on the job at the time of the call. However, he covered all the questions our students were burning to ask him and gave out useful advice about social media and how to utilise it. Our second question and answer panel was made up of alumni’s, Adam Tomlinson, Emma Wright, Ellie Smart, Hasina Sacranie, who careers are in PR which answered lots of questions for the PR students in the room.

The afternoon ended on a high note with mingling, tea and cakes!

We spoke with First Year Public Relations student, Rebecca Stacey, to see what she thought of the event and what she gained from it. Watch the interview below!

 

Jonathan Holmes is a digital broadcast journalist. His main brief is to look after the digital content that sits on Radio Bristol’s Facebook and Twitter pages. That means editing, filming and a to of working with Points West regional TV.

Jonathan started out as a broadcast assistant on radio Bristol’s breakfast programme, but he has completely left radio behind for the brave new world of digital content. In effect, he is now doing a brand new job without changing BBC sites!

We are looking forward to meeting Jonathan at the Alumni Conference!

Tomorrow, Lincoln School of English and Journalism hosts its annual alumni conference. It will be taking place in the Cargill Lecture Theatre, located in the Minerva Building at 2pm. A whole host of alumni shall be attending the event, who studied either Journalism or PR in the past. Leigh Milner who is currently working at BBC Look East, Holly O’Flinn, a trainee journalist at The Lincolnshire Echo. Also joining is Will Longman who works as an Editorial Assistant for WhatsOnStage, Jonathan Holmes a digital broadcast journalist at BBC Bristol. Adam Tomlinson is also taking a break from his duties as Media Executive at Huddersfield Town Football Club, as well as Junior Account Executive Emma Wright from Dragonfly PR and Ellie Smart who is a Media Relations Officer at South Yorkshire Police.  Finally we have Web Editor, Hasina Sacranie, who is currently working for The Medical Research Council.

The afternoon will allow students to hear alumni talking about their time at the University of Lincoln, but more importantly how they got there current jobs. They shall also be offering advice and tips on how to ‘make it’ after graduating from Lincoln. We spoke with Journalism and PR lecturer and Event Organiser, Sam Pidoux, to see why the event is so valuable to the university. Catch the interview below!

 

The event can be followed live on the conferences blog and social media pages – Twitter, Facebook and Instagram – using the hash tag #lsjalumni2017. There shall be a networking session with cake and refreshments after the event. We look forward to seeing you there!

Leigh Milner graduated from the University of Lincoln in 2010 with a journalism degree and is now a TV journalist who works for BBC Look East, which is one of the country’s most watched news programmes, covering the largest of the English Regions. Leigh films and edits stories for the programme, reports live from location as well as presents bulletins in the studio.She also regularly covers national stories in the East of England for the BBC News channel, BBC One and various national radio stations including Radio 5Live and Newsbeat. She has recently been chosen to spearhead a new pilot project for digital; making videos for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and online.

Leigh will be attending the LSEJ Alumni event on 22 of February. The alumni Facebook page will have posts updating you throughout the day, please feel free to follow here.

 

Adam Tomlinson graduated from University of Lincoln in 2016 with a first class honours in Journalism. He is currently working as the Media Executive for Huddersfield Town. His key roles include managing content and overall maintenance of the club website by uploading at least five new articles each day. He also works as the Deputy Editor of the match day programme and produces as well as sources around 80% of the content. He also posts content across all social media platforms, especially on match days and constantly looks for new ways in interacting with the clubs fans. Another one of his roles is setting up and organising press conferences, liaising with the press regarding interviews as well as getting positive articles about the club published in local media outlets. Outside of his working career, he is a keen supporter of Leicester City.

We will bring you lots more information about Adam throughout the conference! You can get involved in the conference yourself, have your say, and hear as well as see what’s going on through our Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. #LSJalumni2017

 

Emma Wright graduated from the University of Lincoln in 2016 with a BA in Public Relations. She is currently working as a Junior Account Executive at Dragonfly Public Relations in Rotherham. As a Junior Account Executive Emma’s main roles involve supporting the Account Managers in the delivery of campaigns. This involves creating social media campaigns, writing press releases, writing blogs, magazine features and attending client meetings. Emma also helps to produce reports for clients as well as monthly press clippings. One of her main focuses is also trying to ascertain new custom for the business, setting up meetings for client pitches. Emma is also in charge of the agency’s social media itself so this has become one of her daily responsibilities.

We will bring you lots more information about Emma throughout the conference! Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram #LSJalumni2017 for photos and more information on what is happening directly from the conference @LSJalumni