Not much time to settle in. On the first day of his work attachment at Original in Bristol, recently graduated journo, Bryan Rutherford, found himself reporting ‘live’ from the scene of the enormous fire on the famous old pier. When the story broke, Bryan was ordered to take off down to the scene in the radio car from which he reported all day.

Ironically, one of Paul’s assignments during the course was to produce a 3-minute feature on one of his heroes, the former radio reporter and now Channel 4 news presenter, Jon Snow whose name is on the cup that Paul won.
Paul Organe got a BA at Sussex University where he ran URF, the campus radio station. He’s been a studio manager with the BBC World Service for five years. He’s hoping to puruse his career at the BBC, albeit in news and current affairs.

Do breakfast show listeners in Oxforshire realise that their morning news-man – Tom Fletcher – knows more than anyone on the planet about Elton John? And do you think they know that, as well as fronting Fox FM’s morning news bulletins, he also leads one of the UK’s most successful tribute bands -Elton Tom.
Tom left the NBS in April 2008, did a work attachment at Original in Bristol and then joined Fox FM. Simple really. Don’t suppose the fact that he sounds great had anything to do with it! Well done, Tom.

Adam Lindsay is going back home to Darlington after several years in Brighton where he got his English degree. Adam, who won the Jon Snow Prize at the end of the Winter 2008 course, has just won his first big break in radio news by securing a job with Century North East. “I’m really chuffed”, said Adam. “And what’s great is that I can live with my Mum until I get myself settled. Brilliant.” Another top NBS news graduate, Georgie Frost, is already at Century.