Working in the Media

Today we took part in a zoom call which was promoting jobs in media. We started off by thinking about what media is specifically local media. It tells us in our local community all the big events and news – a bit like the glue of the community. It begins with curiosity and asking questions. What ways can we see and hear about local media? 

During the call, three special guests came on to speak to us about their jobs. The first special guest was Lucy from ITV Granada reports. She told us about the awards she has won for her work, her favourite film and who works for her at ITV. Part of her job is finding the best pictures then making sure they come up with great headlines before sharing them with everyone online or on the television. Lucy has to ensure her team work to a deadline, decide which stories to tell and checking that the facts they are sharing are true. Can you remember what her top three skills are that she uses in her job? 

The second speaker was Vijay who is a local radio presenter from Leicester. Within his job, he has interviewed people from all over the world. Vijay runs the radio station that broadcasts 24hours a day, 7 days a week. Vijay loves working with people from different cultures and backgrounds. He promoted the fact that we should use our voices well to show our passions. As part of Vijay’s job, he finds stories that matter to the community and he works with different people – schools, community groups and volunteers. Amazingly, the radio station uses different languages! Subjects like English, Maths, Computing and Geography and History help within his job. Can you remember anyone Vijay has met? What were his top tips?

The third guest was Alice. Her role is to write stories about the community that people will enjoy like her report on the cat that lived in a car home for two decades! Can you remember her favourite news stories? 

Would you like to work within media?

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14 Responses to Working in the Media

  1. Jade says:

    I also like this lesson because we got to meet people who work for the media. Thru told us what it is like in the media and also they told that if you want to be in the media then you can because they you can be anything you want to be they also said there is less people in the media and we need more people

  2. Ayesha says:

    Today we learned about working in the media. We called 3 mystery people Taney talked to us about their jobs.Their names were Lucy and Vijay and Alice . Lucy worked for the ITV Granda reports. Vijay works for the local radio station.Alice writes stories about their community.

  3. Alexander says:

    I really like this lesson because we got to communicate with other people and learn about peoples jobs that work in the media like the radio.

  4. Mudathir says:

    I loved this lesson because we got to meet people who work in the media. There told us about the good and bad about being a media worker. One good this of being a media a work is that you can interview famous people. One bad this that you have to go work early.

  5. Jade Rakgabo says:

    I love this lesson because we got to meet new people who work in the media and talk to them how it is like in the media. They was telling us that less and less people are working in the media. We was also told what the people do in the media and what awards they won .

    • Ashton says:

      I liked this lesson because I have met a lot of people so that we can communicate with them there was a women called Lucy who worked for The news and wakes up at 5:30 so she can talk on the news.

  6. 0272020as4 says:

    I loved the lesson because we got meet people who work on media. There were 3 mystery people who were called Lucy, Vijay and Alice. They even get to meet famous people.

  7. Mukarram says:

    I really liked this because we leaned about the radio and people jobs and at the end we asked questions we talked with famous people and celebrities

  8. Molly says:

    This lesson we went onto a zoom and learned about what jobs you can have using the media and how to stay safe doing those jobs! We also learned about the radio stations and what you have to be good at to do that job. You have to be confident, loud and respectful to be on the radio!

  9. Ali says:

    Today was we went in zoom and we listened to people talking about their life and job and why they chose their job. Also they helped us with our future life, at the end everyone started to clap an there was over 100 people.

  10. Poppie says:

    Today we learnt about media and people who work on media . Some the people we say on media was Vijay Alice and Lucy they met very famous people and actors

  11. Soha says:

    Today we did working in the media, we met different people and they shared some things about them and we could even get to ask them questions about who they are. The first one was Lucy from Granada Reports, then we had Vijay who was a presenter and another person who was Alice came as well. Thank you so much for this workshop, we hope we get to do this again very soon, thank you!

  12. 0272020za says:

    Today we learned how it was to work in the media. I learned that working in the media was super hard they had to wake up at 4am their first interview of the day was at 6 am!I wouldn’t like to work in the media because I don’t like to wake up early.

  13. Mohammed Aduma Idris says:

    On 17th June we were on a live stream about working in the media there name were Lucy, Vijay and Alice. Lucy’s specialties is use your imagination. Vijay’s specialties is be kind and listen to others. Alice if you put yourself out your comfort zone the more rewards you’ll get.

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