Multimedia Intern
King's College London
Total years of experience :3 years, 0 Months
Produced, presented and edited a fortnightly podcast for the School of War Studies at KCL. Worked with a number of experts producing video and audio content as well as interviewing high profile guests.
Successfully booked high profile guests, prepared briefs and suggested questions for the presenter. I pitched ideas and stories (and successfully delivered) for some of the daily news programmes such as WHYS, Outlook, Newshour, The Today Programme as well as producing and editing content for the BBC 100 Women event and BBC Arabic Festival.
Worked on the 2015 General Election in the UK, where I interviewed winning and losing party representatives, filmed creative shots of the count and live-fed on the count as it unfolded on social media.
Published a comment piece on Theresa May’s new legislation extending counter extremism laws to those who spread hate but do not break existing law. http://bit.ly/2AWJ44u
Fixed high profile interviews, interviewed guests and arranged crews being sent out for packages. Used social media, forums, and personal contacts to contact interviewees. After a successful placement I was called back for freelance work.
Published over 30 articles on current affairs and politics focusing on the Eurasian and Caucasian region. Created innovative multimedia content where I conducted interviews in various languages and filtered biased sources to create fair and accurate reporting for the democratization of former soviet republic states. Worked on an online template creating audience targeted SEO’s. http://www.tol.org/client/search/?search=mane+grigoryan
Attended editorial meetings and worked with the input/output team for the daily news programme. Observed news development, worked with the editing team and joined the gallery to watch the programme go live on air with Alastair Stewart and Mary Nightingale.
Focused on local issues, improved my interviewing skills and dealt with various personalities in governmental positions, charity organisations, police officers and airport spokesmen; amongst many others. Wrote articles for Local news, What's On and Feature topics.
With Merit Focus: - Terrorism/ Counterterrorism - Gendered Wars / Radicalisation - Policy/ Strategy /Diplomacy - Insurgency in the Middle East /Human Rights - Intelligence / Peace building - Governmentality / Biopolitics / Nuclear proliferation
Distinction Focus -Presenting/Interviewing -Media Law -Media Ethics/Public Affairs -Teeline Shorthand -Video production/editing -Audio production/editing -Voice Training -Multimedia Platforms -Social Media -Public Relations Activities: Course representative. Volleyball team captain Volunteer at My Career Your Career Journalism event. Erasmus Year at Carlos Madrid III