Following on from my last post, this is what some of our Community Reporters had to say:
Technoboy – Today was a bit special, as a community reporter I got to visit the BBC along with fellow community reporters, and take a look behind the scenes of the Northwest Tonight programme…more
Rob ‘Roblog’ Squires – This week we were treated to a visit to the BBC to watch the live recording of Northwest tonight, and we are to recieve free training from the Programme’s news editor, about how to produce newsworthy stories….more
Paul ‘The Hulme Tune’ Ridyard They are really holding their arms out to us, giving us a taster of what goes on behind the scenes of live regional news programming. It allowed me to imagine myself sat on the red couch next to Ranvir Singh =yes, please – reading the news!…more
I’ve also got to give an extra special shoutout to Mr Paul Techoboy, who wrote an uncharacteristically (!) upbeat piece on what it means to him to be a Community Reporter:
“I thought today I would talk about being a community reporter, and how you can turn a hobby into something useful for the community. I am not a professional and neither do I want to be. It’s a hobby that I thoroughly enjoy, and will continue to happily snap away until the cows come home, and that is the key, enjoyment and enthusiasm”….more
