Today we were given the amazing opportunity to have an editor of the bbc 10 'o'clock news give us feedback on our news packages. As frightening as that sounds, it was not all that scary because it is always really great to hear from a range of people in the Journalism industry, its the our only way to absorb as much information as we can about what it is really like, before we get thrown out into the big scary world.
Ian, who has been at the BBC for more than 20 years, started his Journalism career on his college newspaper. Admitedly he says that he started paying more attention to that than his course. He started out at the BBC in production, helping to produce the 6pm and 10pm bulletins and went on to take a role as editor of the 10 o'clock news where he led a team.
He spoke about the importance of the news agenda, checking the papers, the news diary and the offers of stories that would come in every morning.
Ian suggests that if we have an "intrinsic interest" and "want to tell other people stories" then journalism is the industry to be in.
To be effective we must act as a sponge, be open and available so that people want to tell us a story.
Talking about work experience, his opinion is that the best training that is available to us is in local news, whether that is newspapers, radio or television.
Ian placed particular emphasis on the word 'recognition'. Recognise what separates you from everyone else. Be an antena for news, pick up information wherever you are and make something of it!
veryone is just trying to work out what it all means in order to explain the world.
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