Tajah from London

Sophie Vanessa Thompson from North London has come to Lincoln University with the future goal of becoming a Journalist the main focus of the area Journalism is Print. Her future job would be a music critic and editor of a magazine; three words to describe this ambitious 18 year old girl would be clever, stupid and funny. In her daily life she would spend about 25 to 30 pounds a week which makes Lincoln an ideal place to study because her favourite part is the two Primark’s, providing great shopping opportunities. If you get to know Sophie you will learn that she is a diabetic, has a fear of edges and would be known as ‘fatty’, ‘ass’, ‘sophs’, ‘peanut’ and ‘bambino’. In Sophie’s spare time she makes use of her favourite items her bass, mobile phone and ipod. Thompson’s most embarrassing moment would be in a sprint race she lost her shoes, leaving her forced to finish the race with one shoe gaining the attention of a laughing audience. She will become a successful journalist.

Sophie, London

Lisa “Arse” Dunholm is an 18 year old A Level student, currently residing in the home of Robin Hood. Described by her friends as a funny, over the top yet trustworthy companion, Lisa is looking at coming to Lincoln for the course, the city and last but not least, the arse.

In her spare time, Lisa enjoys listening to Wednesday 13 (although her favourite genre of music is sixties music) and socialising on MySpace, drinking Pepsi Max and showing off her talents on the guitar, piano and harmonica.

Lisa has 3 piercings and 4 tattoos. She has a variety of phobias, many of which some might find a little out of the ordinary. These incluse bruises, nose bleeds, reflex hammers, injections and serated edges (she finds herself shaking in her boots when presented with a crisp packet).

The most expensive thing Lisa has ever bought was a guitar which she purchased for £450. Her most embarrassing moment was when her friend, David, farted and Lisa got the blame for it in front of a small crowd of people. She also stripped off in front of her boyfriend’s mum. What a classy bird.

Charlotte-Aylesbury

Natalie Littewood has always been a keen writer. One of her favourite pastimes is fashion. As a result the aspiring 18 year old journalist from Nottingham aims to work on a magazine.

Natalie has shared her life with an older sister who she gets along with. However as she is 20 and works at E-on she find that they do not spend much timw with one another anymore.

An avid Hollyoaks fan, Natalie was surprised when she found Matt Littler flying to New York on the same plane as her. Matt Littler rose to fame playing the character Max Cunningham, who has suffered many soap tribulations for 11 years. On that same trip Natalie experienced the scariest moment of her life. Attempting to find a shop in Soho she got off a stop too early. Confused by the dank surroundings she was almost in tears. Thankfully she realised that the clothing shop was just round the corner.

Natalie, Nottingham

Charlotte Reid, an eighteen year old aspiring journalist, has hopes from her future which come from a particular influence. This influence: Channel 4’s very own John Snow. For Charlotte, his fun but authoratative attitude, and array of appealing ties have inspired her. Her love of learning people’s individual stories and details of their lives also contributes to her desire to be a journalist. Coming from Aylesbury, charlotte studies English literature, classical civilisation and politics to a level. Away from college and her favourite hobby of reading, Charlotte has met an impressive collection of famous people. These include “Jake” and “Becca” from Hollyoaks, Fabio Capello and most recently The Kaiser Chiefs,at this year’s NME Awards Concert. Charlotte confesses that her scariest moment was the day when she caught the London tube alone all the way from Tottenham Court Road to Marylebone station to return home from a museum visit, something that now she is familiar with, she is keen to repeat.

Laura Browse interviewing Brooke Charlesworth

Brooke Charlesworth is a 17 year old student from Maidenhead. Her love of music has lead to a passionate seven year dedication to playing the guitar. Her favourite genre of music is rock and her love of rock music including bands such as bowling for soup, New Found Glory and Sugar Cult has lead to her writing her own songs. A trip to Switzerland to visit a friend who is also a music producer resulted in Brooke producing her own album.
Her passion for music means that Brooke enjoys going to gigs, resulting in her going to over 60 gigs throughout the U.K.
Brooke is contemplating making Lincoln University her first choice as she feels that the journalism course at Lincoln is very good and the campus is very modern.
After University, Brookes plans to go to America to pursue a career as a music journalist.

Rachael, Darlington

Calum believes that it was in the blood for him to become a journalist; influenced heavily by his family and friends he has participated in several work experience placements working for nationally recognised publications such as The Financial Times and New Scientists magazine. However, it was only two years ago when considering his options for the future that he decided that he must choose more realistic career than just “playing in a band” and decided to focus his studies in Media Studies, History and English further building upon his original interest and developing his skills.
Through a degree in journalism Calum eventually hopes to be able to specialise in the fields of sports journalism with the intentions to work for either the BBC or Sky Sports.

Brooke Charlesworth, Maidenhead

Laura Browse is 18 years old and lives in Sheffield. Her love of indie music (her favourite band being The Libertines) has led her to Leeds Festival twice – the most recent of which was an extremely eventful weekend. Laura’s tent was almost set on fire by a crowd of crazy drunks. Chaos broke out and Laura started screaming, although some friends of hers managed to chase them away before they caused any damage.

Aside from music, Laura enjoys fashion and socialising. She also used to have a pet cat, “Top Cat”, although he ran away and was never found. Laura’s favourite food is pizza, and her favourite colour is gold, especially on jewellery. She has decided to come to the University of Lincoln because it’s far away enough from home, but not too far for her to travel if she wants to go back and visit. She also likes the fact that Lincoln is small.

Rachael

By Calum Fuller

Rachael, from Darlington, gives a striking slant to the reasons behind her ambition to go into the journalism business. Having studied Media Communications and Production, English Literature, Sociology has certainly given her a good grounding to break into journalism, and her reasons for her interest are certainly refreshing. “Everyone has a background story, and I’d like to think that’s something I can learn about.” It's certainly an interesting insight, and something many have not even considered.

Dan, Hertford

On the face of it, Zoe is a 17 year old young lady from Watford. However, having spent 5 minutes interviewing her, I discovered she was much more than that.

With regards to academics, Zoe comes across as the ambitious type, stating that when she finishes university, she’d like to enter fashion journalism.

In her spare time, Zoe works at Vicarage Road, the home of Watford Football Club. In addition to this, she enjoys listening to music, saying that her “taste changes all the time” (her current taste is indie-pop band One Night Only), and also loves the TV show ‘Friends’, a show which she feels she could recite every line! As well as this she also follows various TV soaps.

Zoe has a more adventurous side, which she showed when she enthusiastically described her month long trip to Tanzania, Africa.

All in all, one gets the feeling that the determination that Zoe holds to succeed will lead her to her ambition of becoming a famous fashion journalist.

Zoe, Watford

After taking a few years off from studying, Dan has decided to apply to university to study journalism. Dan, a 20 year old from Hertford decided to leave his current job working behind the bar at ‘The Jolly Fisherman’ after visiting a friend a university and seeing the lifestyles of students. Dan has always been interested in journalism, especially since year 9 English lessons, where he was given the opportunity to write articles. After completing his university degree, Dan would like to specialise in sports journalism, and area which he is particularly interested in. Away from work and university, Dan plays for a local football team, St Margaret’s Berry, where he plays weekly games. Music-wise, Dan enjoys listening to Bloc Party, and recently went to see them live at Alexandra Palace.

Lisa Denholm - Edwinstowe.

Tajah Cherelle Brown of London is super naturally nice and intimidatingly friendly. She's currently studying her A - Levels at 'Saint Francis Exavier College' and aspires to becoming a Newspaper Journalist. Tajah has her heart of gold, set on travelling the world, but would rather eat chicken and sweetcorn pizza than try new delicacies.

Tajah loves her little sister more than the male species, but says she likes her men in tight boxer shorts - maybe this angel has a dark side? In her spare time, Tajah loves to watch films and listen to music- especially if it allows her to dance the night away. Her other hobby is sitting on MSN virally communicating with her friends, in fact she's surprised her eyes aren't square!

Tajah is a lovely individual, perhaps too nice! I wish her the best happiness in life, but I will always wonder why she would never dye her hair - I imagine Hot Pink is her colour!

Junior of Edlo, mate.

Well. After having earned myself a Journalism degree I hope to eventually go on to being a games journalist. Being very determined I can see myself going to whatever lengths it takes to achieve this. I really can’t see myself doing anything other than games journalism, as my interests don’t stretch much further than, y’know, shooting people and jumping on turtles.

I’ll start out doing whatever journalism-related job I can get my hands on and go from there. Possibly live in a trendy, minimalist flat, which I will share with my beautiful, young girlfriend. I’ll go on to being an editor of a magazine like gamesTM or EDGE. Well, it’d be nice.

I’d be lying if I said I knew how much editors of magazines are paid, but it can’t be crap, can it? And thus I would buy myself a lovely abode in a friendly, residential area somewhere close to wherever it is I’d be working, where I could spend most evenings ‘round the pub, getting involved in the area’s pleasant community activities. My no doubt comfortable wage would keep me afloat in an ocean of beer and pork scratchings, and I’d happily grow old and fat, surrounded by a large and loving family.

Hannah - Shrewsbury

After completing my journalism degree in three years time, I hope to be working as a feature writer for either a national newspaper or magazine. I am also really interested in Travel Writing and Sports Journalism, as both sport and travelling are hobbies of mine, and therefore are areas of journalism of which I would like to gain more knowledge on. Music Journalism is another aspect I am interested in going into, as I am always reading music magazines and love watching live music. Photo journalism is again another aspect I would be happy working with as I gained a large interest in photography during my A-level media course.

Today’s open day in Lincoln has been really beneficial and given me a good insight into the kind of work I will be doing in my chosen area of study. At first I found the practice workshops slightly unusual, as I have been to several different university open days and never experienced such a practical approach. However, these sessions have helped me realise what kind of work I would be doing on the course, and with my University choice.

Carmen Shillam; Doncaster

In three years, I wish to have fully completed my degree in Journalism; I hope to have gained experience as well as qualifications which will enable me to go out into the world of work and put these skills into practice.
Possibly, I may consider going on to do a Masters degree, but obviously, that is something that will be given consideration at a later date.
After completing the degree, I will hopefully then look to going into print journalism as I love to write as this is the area I am most skilled in, I believe.
It is my dream to work for either a magazine or newspaper, preferably a well-known, more mainstream one so that my articles will be seen by the majority, not just a niche market, although obviously, anything is a starting point!
Ideally, I would then love to go on – at a later point – into the more technical side of journalism, whether it be editing, layout or so on.
Obviously, my aspirations may change three years down the line; after completing my degree, I may find my strengths lie in other areas, but at the minute, I’d say the above pretty much sums things up.

James, Cheltenham

I have no idea what I am going to be doing in 3 years time. I will probably be down the pub spending all my money as per usual. However, I would like to think that I have a job writing articles for some newspaper that isn’t just a load of rubbish or maybe even take another year to do a masters degree if I can’t get a job. I am quite interested in cars and might go into automotive journalism. I would love to spend my weekend bombing around some airfield in a Mitsubishi Evo or even a ridiculously fast, petrol guzzling, hair raising sports car that I could never afford to buy myself as I would probably spend all my money in the afore mentioned pub. Then see if I can write articles for something like the Top Gear magazine maybe. To be honest I don’t really know but I am sure it will all work out; at least I hope it does.

Leah Cassady, Nottingham

After completing my Journalism degree successfully, I hope, I wish to work in the print side of the industry in magazines or newspapers. My aim is to combine my love of films and entertainment with my passion for writing and work for a magazine like Empire and Total Film which concentrate on films and the entertainment industry. I have seen a course that i am also concidering taking after i finish at university, it is about freelance journalism. They help you create pieces and send your work out to be publicised and you are even paid for the articles that get printed. I am interested in taking this course because it would help my CV look as impressive as possible, to say that I have published work of various places would certainly look good to prospective employers. Realistically to begin with, I will have to work my way up and so I will start in newspapers writing articles not only about film but also anything else of interest to build my work experience and portfolio up.

Sarah, Watford.....!

After studying Journalism at Lincoln University for a period of three years, I hope to begin training for officer work in the military. This commissioned training will commence at sandhurst training facility and will last for up to 30 weeks. After which I will be a fully trained officer. After learning the responsibilities and criteria’s of the job title for a further three year period I plan to commence training in military Journalism.
This job allows the freedom of an independent self-employer, however in return you receive the satisfaction of changing the world through the media; one of today’s biggest facets.
Reasons I chose the field of work are because of the active enforcements of the job. A lot of the work is done outside, and the satisfaction is hugely beneficial and a lot more rewarding than the pay however the pay is a lot closer to matching it than that of other jobs such as office work, teaching, labour etc. I believe strongly in the media, and would like to be apart of it as a career to help the enforcements of a true media.

sam from chesterfield

I three years time I hope to have passed my journalism course and find myself working for a local newspaper.
I want to be able to look back on my time at university and think that it was time well spent and a worthwhile experience that will find me a decent job. I may decide to do a ma course in sports journalism and stay at university for longer than three years as this is something that has interested me for a while although I won’t think about that for a couple of years.
If not, I would like to travel a bit and see some of the world, I have wanted to go and see America for years, as well as visit some of my family in Australia.
I’m most interested in writing stories about general news and sporting events, so I will aim for those types of jobs.
TV journalism is also something that I wouldn’t mind gong into, as it seems fairly interesting and challenging.

Jonathan, Nottingham.

Hi!
In three years time I would like to either do an extra year in order to achieve an MA in journalism or take a year out to gain some work experience, hopefully at either a newspaper or a local news television studio. A work placement would help me to find out how news is found and how tight the deadlines really are, as well as give me a chance to accustom myself to connecting with strangers in order to gather details for stories. In terms of what aspect of the industry that I’d like to specialise I am extremely open but do seem to be leaning towards print. I’m a fan of most sports so a position as a sports journalist in a print capacity would appeal to me, as would something that involves travel.

Benn from Grimsby (y)

In three years time, when I’ve successfully (I hope) completed my degree, I hope to move away to London, or some bigger city and work for a more recognised news paper or magazine, or even for a television company. I have a big interest in info-entertainment news, so my ideal job, whether it be working for television or newspapers etc would be working in the entertainment/celebrity sections. Also, I’m really into Films, so I think id like working for a film related magazine.
Other than this, I’m pretty much undecided. Anything could happen in 3 years, I might change my mind sometime before then.

I chose Lincoln University as my first choice because it seemed to appeal to me more, like when I read the prospectus, I much preferred the sound of the course here rather than at Sheffield Hallam. Plus, I’ve got friends who come here and they said to me that it’s a fantastic place to come. Abit too close to home, but I think ill be too skint to even afford train faire :/

Alex, Hull

In three years time, after I have finished my degree, I would like to be working in the Journalism industry itself, either on TV, radio or print media. I enjoy informing and entertaining people through about different topics, in any of the forms of communication that I just mentioned. There will hopefully be many opportunities for me to express my writing skills once I have completed my degree, and I anticipate that there will be several Job prospects in different fields, relating to Journalism.

I have written for the magazine at my college, and I also do the college radio. Both of these experiences have helped me decide that I would like to do Journalism at University, and have provided me with vital experience when it comes to writing. I am interested in the media industry as a whole, and would definitely like to become part of it once I have successfully completed my degree. I would eventually like to hold one of the higher positions in a media institution (such as the Editor), but I know this will not happen straight away when I have finished University as it will take me some time to work my way up.

Hannah from Nottingham!

In three years time, after I have successfully completed my degree (hopefully), I hope to work as a magazine journalist. I started a magazine called “The Jazz” at my college a year ago, and this started my ambition to eventually become editor of a large magazine such as Cosmopolitan.
I would like to be able to travel around the world, researching and reporting issues from different cultures and be paid mega-money!
I live in Nottingham, but after my degree I hope to live and work in a much more exciting city such as London, or abroad.

Joe, Stockport

I’m undecided on what I want to be doing in three years time, once I’ve finished my degree, but hopefully moving into doing something related to journalism – possibly getting some work experience in a newsroom just to see how it works and how the news goes from being collected to being reported on in newspapers and television. I haven’t really had any past experience in journalism but have done work experience editing documents etc. at the campaign for plain English (that strips documents of jargon etc. to make them easier to read). I’m tempted to do the masters post-graduate but only if I somehow manage to get a really good degree (and the money to pay for it aswell…). Another alternative would be to go into politics more than journalism (as I’m doing a mixed degree) as I’ve already done some work in politics (working in an MEP’s office) and I am very interested in the subject field.

Natalie Ditchfield Warwickshire

In three years time I see myself having a degree in Journalism and Advertising. I would also like to travel the world, and going to see the many, different, beautiful places there are to see. I feel that there are so many places that should be seen by people in the world, and people should take the first opportunity they get, therefore I am going to experience them myself. I would like to see such places as the USA, Canada, Africa, Thailand, China, Japan, ect. And hopefully end up in either Canada or the USA writing for a fashion magazine about the latest fashions and trends of the world. One of my main hobbies is fashion; I enjoy learning and experiencing new fashions of the world and it’s an excuse to go shopping and buy the new fashions. As well as writing about fashion I would also enjoy to write about music as this is another one of my hobbies that I particularly enjoy.

Rachael, leicester

In three years I see myself looking at a career in freelance photography. I am particularly interested in advertising photography and would like to gain experience in journalism in order to broaden my horizons. I would like to see evidence of my work published in various magazines. Photography is a subject with a lot of opportunity and I would like to use that to my advantage and to travel to exotic countries which would be fun. I’d also like to earn a lot of money doing this and hopefully clear my student debt relatively quickly as I am guessing it will be quite a lot!
I’d also like to make a lot of new friends and connections over the next three years. The work experience gained at university will hopefully get me connections in my chosen work. Living in student accommodation and houses will hopefully teach me how to cook things that aren’t ready meals and keep things tidy! I would also hope to have made new friends and met a lot of new people.

Thomas Sanders from Wakefield

In three years I will be journeying out into my future career as a journalist. Having aced my degree over the three years I will be extremely knowledgeable about the area of journalism and will have the skills required to be one of the greatest journalists in the history of journalism. Having collected my diploma, I will go rushing off to my job at a national newspaper; such is the talent that I have. They snapped me up after just one interview due to the scandal involving Gordon Brown and a sex worker which I had investigated and had gotten published in The Times. Brown was kicked out of office due to the uproar which he had caused after being pictured leaving a brothel having just visited his regular Thai lover. I will also have developed my knowledge of and skills in English having done a joint degree. I will then become a media tycoon due to the success of my new national newspaper which has overtaken The Sun and The Mirror in sales and is now the biggest selling newspaper in Britain. I will also have had my first novel published which became a bestseller within just one week. After the first six months which it has had on sale it has far outstripped the sales of the entire Harry Potter series and is loved by the entire world, with a sequel already in the pipeline. Having achieved all of this I now buy my fifth million pound mansion, for somewhere to store all of my awards trophies, after the success of my first single, which stayed at number one for a staggering 6 months. Thus marks the completion of my world domination.

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