Work Experience, Education and Career so far...

Employment History

Digital Reporter at BristolWorld

Company Name: Iconic Media (Formerly National World)

January 2024 -April 2026

I worked as a digital reporter at the online news website BristolWorld. The title formed part of the Metro Unit, which meant I also wrote content for the other titles in the group (LiverpoolWorld, ManchesterWorld,NewcastleWorld, Shields Gazette, Blackpool Gazette, Sunderland Echo, Lancashire Evening Post).

As part of the role, I:

Pitched stories ideas for Bristol to the editor during morning conference
Did live coverage around the patch, including taking photos for picture galleries for stories and video to go alongside the article and on socials. These videos were edited with Adobe Premiere Pro and, more recently, Davinci Resolve
As part of the coverage, I have also done Facebook Lives to report on stories like the Galleon Andalucia's arrival in Bristol and Bristol International Balloon Fiesta’s Night Glow
In more recent months, I have created reels for the website socials, with newly recorded footage from the patch as well as by recycling archive footage to create a new video.
Due to the nature of journalism, I have often worked outside my ‘work hours’ (8am to 4pm, formerly 9am to 5pm) and have stayed longer during evenings or weekends to cover ongoing stories such as local events and new openings across the city.
As part of the Metro Unit, I have also completed weekend shifts where I was tasked to work on any breaking news for the eight titles, prepare morning content, reshare content on socials and refresh homepages for the websites periodically.

Freelance Journalist

BristolWorld (the parent company is the former National World)

June 2023- December 2023

Main duties included:

- Liaising with the News Editor

- Researching and pitching stories.

As part of the freelance work, I spent a day gathering the material and providing a selection of photos for the features and the second day was focused on writing three to five feature articles, including food reviews and picture galleries.

Teaching Assistant/Cover Teacher

Aqui Estoy/Grupo Mammarracho

October 2021 - June 2024

Main duties included:

- Supporting students with worksheets in Spanish

- Supporting students with creation and learning of scripts

- Taking part in plays

- Helping backstage during some theatre performances and theatre workshops

- Creating some props/accessories for stage performances

Nursery Cover Assistant

Class Recruitment

July 2022 - December 2023

As part of the role, I travelled to various nurseries across the Bristol postcode area as a cover nursery assistant based on demand.

I worked with children ages preschool and younger.

Some of the tasks included:

- Playing with the children, supervising play and meal time

- Assisting getting children to sleep during nap time

- Setting tables for meal times

- Helping clean the rooms after meals and/or play time.

Casual Food and Beverage Assistant

Keele Hall

November 2019 - March 2020

Whilst in this role, I had multiple shifts which lasted between 8 to 10 hours and which generally took place in

the weekends.

During these shifts, I took various roles from waitressing in large events to setting up for events and taking care of the cloak room.

Iconic Media Senior Qualification (October 2025 – November 2025)

An internal qualification completed during my time working at Iconic Media. The qualification was awarded a merit with passes in: Media Law, Logbook and a writing and newsdesk-skills exam. It follows the Internal Diploma which includes passes in: Essential Journalism (via NCTJ), Using Social Media, Interviewing and Optimising Articles exams.

Education

Westside Comprehensive School, Gibraltar; September 2014 - June 2016

English Language (B), English Language (A*), English Literature (A), Core Science (A), Religion (A), Maths (A*), Spanish(A*), Music (B), History (A), French (A*)

GCSEs

Keele University; September 2017 - September 2021

The qualification was awarded with a First-Class with passes in: Japanese, The Photographic Message, Mediated World, Contesting Popular Culture, Creating Awareness Campaigns, Researching Media, Communications and Culture, Creative Magazine Production and Media Dissertation.

Alongside the qualification, I was part of both the Anime and Creative Writing Committees and played an active role in organising socials and maintaining members informed of ongoing activities at the society.

Bachelor of Arts Media and Sociology with competency in Japanese

Bayside Comprehensive School, Gibraltar; September 2016 - June 2018

A-Levels: Sociology (A), Spanish (A*), Maths (A), Further Maths ( C)

During my A-levels I played an active role in the school magazine (Baywatch). I attended team meetings, wrote articles and interviewed members of the school body, as well as assisted in the sales of the magazine

A-levels

The University of the West of England, Bristol ; September 2021 - March 2023

The BJTC Accredited qualification was awarded with a merit with passes in: Multimedia Journalism, Journalism Writing, Investigative Journalism, Introduction to Media Law, Advanced Media Law and Journalism Portfolio.

As part of the course, I had to prepare for assessed Online, Tv and Radio Newsdays. During these assessments, I would need to pitch news stories for 'Bower News', and actively gather footage and interview members of the Bristol community. Aside from the journalist role, I also fulfilled roles as TV presenter and management roles like editor and producer.

During my time at the course, I also volunteered to be part of the UWE 2022 Global News Relay, where I created a TV Package, co-presented and

did the as-live chat for my university's segment

Masters of Art Journalism

Work Experience

Liaising with the News Editor, researching and pitching stories. And writing copy for the news website.

BristolWorld

June 6, 2022 - June 10, 2022 & May 9, 2023 - May 12, 2023

As part of the work experience for my masters course, I spent a week at UJIMA Radio, a local radio station in Bristol.

During this week I:

was taught how to create a jingle, and created some for the Living Show
Wrote a press release
shadowed in some of the station programmes
wrote a Document Brief, and researched the contact and information of speakers mentioned in the climate summit (to take place May 7) in the Bristol Post article. The research was done in preparation for the takeover to be done by UJIMA on the day of the summit.

A few months later, I had the opportunity to sit in one of the shows as a live guest to discuss asexuality.

UJIMA Radio

April 18, 2022 - April 22. 2022

During the work placement, I wrote online articles, radio bulletin scripts and edited clips from interviews for the radio bulletins.

Bauer Media

July 25, 2022 - July 29, 2022

During the work placement, I:

was taught about BUrli and got some practice with the programme
transcribed and made notes from interview audio clips
Wrote prose based on the notes from the three interviews -> to be used in the description of the interview videos on YouTube and on the online website article.
Went out to do Vox Pops about people´s experience of the General Strike of 1972
Shadowed some of the journalists
drafted scripts based on press releases
sat in at gallery as the tv programmes went live
shadowed the court reporter
cleaned audio from interview clip on burli
helped select 30 second audio clips for radio

GBC Newsroom

August 22, 2022 - August 26, 2022

As the News Editor I would liaison with the other committee members and relevant members of other student societies and support the other committee members by researching and creating information documents in preparation for the interviews they would conduct.

Hub Radio

October 2022 - December 2022

Attending cultural events, recording speeches, interviewing key players at the event and writing up feature articles about the event.

Gibraltar Magazine

September 2018 & October 2019