Experience

BBC News

• United Kingdom
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 700 & Above Employee

• Journalist at World Service

  • Feb 2020 - Present

• Broadcast Journalist at BBC Guernsey

  • May 2018 - Feb 2020



2BR

• United Kingdom
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Multimedia Journalist

  • Oct 2017 - Apr 2018

  I worked as a radio reporter, news reader and online journalist.



BBC News

• United Kingdom
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 700 & Above Employee

• Freelance Reporter

  • Jun 2017 - Jun 2017

  I was paid to cover the General Election count in Burnley for BBC North West. I interviewed candidates and provided like coverage on social media.



Society of Editors

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Reporter

  • Oct 2016 - Oct 2016

  I attended the two-day annual Society of Editors Conference held in Carlisle and reported on the panel discussions and speeches as they happened. I conducted mobile video interviews with the speakers which were quickly edited and uploaded to social media. I also interviewed guests and wrote interviews to be posted on the Society of Editors' wordpress. http://soeconference.co.uk/author/shgabbatt/



The Tab

• United Kingdom
• Online Media
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Writer for The Tab York

  • Jun 2014 - Jul 2015

  This involved writing articles for the news, features and opinion sections of The Tab York, an online student publication. I conducted research to find ideas for articles which I pitched to my editor before writing them, contacting members of the student and staff body for quotes, and sourcing pictures to go alongside. I had to work to short deadlines and learn how to use the online Wordpress page to publish the articles myself.



The Wright State Guardian

• United States
• Online Media
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Runner Up in the Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year Competition 2012

  • May 2012 - May 2012

  I wrote an article exploring child slavery in Guinea-Bissau, Africa to be judged by representatives from the Guardian and Amnesty International. I was placed as runner up out of 3000 other articles for my age bracket and was therefore invited down to an awards ceremony in London. This included a journalism masterclass run by the Guardian where we were given the opportunity to conduct interviews before an audience and film each other reading news broadcasts. This was my first experience of broadcast journalism which I greatly enjoyed.