journalism

Sky's Beth Rigby: The woman shaking up Westminster

Beth Rigby (Credit: Ali Painter/Sky)

Beth Rigby is the stand-out political broadcaster of our times. This is despite the former print journalist having been on our screens for only three years. No one asks the acute, no-nonsense yet empathetic questions like the new political editor of Sky News. And no one does it in her accent.

She drops so many Gs that Rigby dreads party conferences in Birmin’ham. We worked together on the Times, where she was a scoop-winning media editor – and when I saw her first steps on Sky News I knew, as her bosses obviously did, that a star had been born.

ITV Tonight's 20th Anniversary

Tonight is the UK's most popular current affairs series and RTS NW is delighted to invite you to look back over the last 20 years.
The event takes place at the Compass Room, Lowry Theatre, Salford Quays.
Doors will open at 6.30pm for drinks, with a welcome address by Michael Jermey before there will be an “in conversation” with Julie Etchingham and Sir Trevor McDonald. An audience Q and A will follow. 
This is a free event and tickets will go fast.
 

Meet...Anja Popp

Channel 4 News journalist Anja Popp talks about her career in journalism and the experiences she's had behind and in front of the camera.

Having progressed quickly through the ranks at Channel 4 News, working as an intern, Washington gofer, guest-booker, London planner, producer and now reporter, Anja has established herself as a journalist on the rise.

Meet...Rishabh R. Jain

Associated Press (AP) journalist Rishabh R. Jain has had many impactful experiences as a journalist at only 28 years old. 

After starting out as an intern at AP, Rishabh has gone on to report extensively on the Rohingya crisis, speaking to individuals in refugee camps in Bangledesh and listening to their personal struggles of living in poverty.

Meet... Noel Phillips

BBC journalist Noel Phillips discusses what inspired him to become a journalist and the stories that have shaped his career.

After studying Broadcast Journalism at Staffordshire University, Noel quickly found his feet at the BBC in the West Midlands, progressing to special reporter for Sunday Politics West Midlands and presenting and producing films for BBC Midlands Today.

Last year, Noel joined the Victoria Derbyshire programme as a reporter, and has covered stories about autism, drug use and unsafe housing in London. 

Deborah Turness: Reinventing TV news

Deborah Turness

Deborah Turness, the former editor of ITV News, ex-President of NBC News and now boss of Euronews, admits that there are parallels in her working and domestic lives. She is, she says, a serial renovator. She bought a place in Shepherd’s Bush and turned it into a family home just before her first daughter was born, and then did the same thing in Chiswick, just before her second.

Journalists offer advice to Southern students

BBC South broadcast journalist Sophia Seth offers advice to student (Credit: Gordon Cooper)

It is one of the best forums for students to meet working journalists to discuss current opportunities and career development. And, to prove the point, three of the 15 journalists at the event had attended as students in the past two years. In fact, one gained her job with Sky News as a result of the contact she made as a student in 2017.

The professionals included on-screen and online staff from BBC South, ITV Meridian and Sky News, as well as reporters from BBC Radio Solent and the Portsmouth News.

RTS Student Masterclasses: Journalism with Clive Myrie

Clive Myrie (Credit: Paul Hampartsoumian)

The importance of role models

 “I’m a Northerner (Myrie was brought up in Bolton) and didn’t come from a media family. I was a second generation immigrant. (My parents) didn’t want me to become a journalist. 

"They wanted me to be a lawyer or a dentist, a respectable middle-class job for their first-born child born in the United Kingdom.

"Around the age of nine I had a paper round, I read the products that I was lobbing over the garden fences and as a result of that got interested in the world.