Experience

BIRMINGHAM POST - Enterprise editor, news reporter (Aug 07 - ) Arranging, producing and writing the weekly small and medium enterprise section of the paper. Also finding and writing regular news articles for both the business and news pages of the Post.

SUNDAY MERCURY - Trainee reporter (May 07 -Aug 07) News reporter on the Midlands’ only Sunday tabloid. Work included investigations into the use of fingerprinting technology on schoolchildren as young as three, and lengthy coverage of the summer floods in the region.

BIRMINGHAM POST - Trainee reporter (Jan 07 - Apr 07) News and business reporter on the Birmingham Post, with a broad remit, including SME and media sections of the business pages.

WORK EXPERIENCE: Placements at newspapers including the Times, Newcastle Chronicle and Journal, Sunday Mercury, Birmingham Post, Western Mail, Derby Evening Telegraph, Leicester Mercury, Coalville and Ashby Times, London Student. (2003-2006)

Education

Press Association Training Course - Newcastle
Newspaper Journalism
September-December 2006

Cardiff University
PGDip Newspaper Journalism (NCTJ accredited)
September 2005-June 2006

University College London
BA Philosophy (2:1)
with course units in French
The Grammar School, Ashby de la Zouch
A LEVEL: Further Mathematics, Mathematics, Chemistry
French, General Studies

Skills

Experience with a wide variety of reporting situations: Court reporting, inquests, employment tribunals, press conferences, investigations, public meetings. 

130 wpm Teeline shorthand

Conversational French

Experience writing, designing and publishing online, including some use of HTML, Web 2.0 applications, creating a website, publishing breaking stories live on the internet.

Clean UK Driving Licence

Familiarity with software - QuarkXpress, Copydesk, MS Office, Ted & Sh.ell, Photoshop, Dreamweaver

Contact Me

Email: tom_scotney@mrn.co.uk

Telephone: 0121 234 5506/5576