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!
Holly O’Flinn is a trainee reporter at the Lincolnshire Echo newspaper based in Lincoln just opposite the university. She has been attending the University of Lincoln since 2013 until 2016. Her key responsibilities are writing copies for the 24/7 website and weekly newspaper. What makes her job challenging but also attractive is the fact that she has to find and pursue stories, contact appropriate people, arrange appointments and produce articles with relevant content.
Holly also keeps track of social media and emergency news sites for any breaking news like fires and crashes. Thanks to social media she can find and use videos from the locals who are on site at that particular moment when the matter is happening. That gives her first-hand access to various stories in the area and makes them more vivid with that community journalism flavour.
We’ll have live updates for you tomorrow as the event will officially start. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram for the latest news!!
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 now works as Media Executive at Huddersfield Town.
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 – Junior Account Executive at Dragonfly Public Relations
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
Hasina now works for the Medical Research Council.
Hasina Sacranie is a former University of Lincoln Journalism student who graduated with First Class Honour’s in 2010. Since graduating, Hasina has gained valuable experience in different organisations including Natural England, where she worked as a licensing and communications support advisor for just under 3 years, and the National Apprenticeship Service for a year, as a Copyeditor.
Hasina is currently working for the Medical Research Council (MRC) as a Web Content Editor. The MRC is a non-departmental public body, funded through the governments’ science and research budget. Some of the organisation’s notable successes include the development of penicillin, invention of MRI and DNA fingerprinting. Her job entails her to take a strategic overview of the MRC’s corporate website and associated microsites. Hasina is also responsible for design, writing, editing and updating content in line with the MRC’s communication’s objectives. We are looking forward to meeting with Hasina at the Alumni event and talking with her more thoroughly about her life after university.
We caught up with Hasina at the alumni conference and asked her a few questions about her life after graduating from the university. Catch the interview below!
Originally from Chicago, she took the plunge to study in Lincoln after a high school teacher encouraged her to apply.
During her time at the university she worked on Siren FM‘s ‘City Vibe’ Friday show and ran the student newspaper ‘The Linc’ for the 2015-2016 academic year.
She started working as a Video Journalist for an ABC-affiliate station in Fargo, North Dakota (Yes, like the movie), WDAZ, in October 2016.
Angeline feels lucky she’s had so many opportunities in places all around the world. At work, she enjoys reporting on anything and everything, especially when it’s not sup-zero degree weather.
