BA (Hons) Journalism (Sport Journalism)

Jack: My name is Jack and I am currently the head of social media and marketing at Plymouth Raiders. I create all their videos. I do a bit of photography. I create all that graphics, and I kind of bring it all together so that what the finished product is, is what we get. There's a lot of teams in the league that are doing a lot of bigger things in us, so I'm trying to build up what we've got and kind of take it to the next level of social media and basketball right now.

I've always been interested in creating films. I made films from quite a young age when we had a big camera and making holiday videos. And it's kind of developed from there. I didn't really have much interest in anything else but creating videos. So then coming to Marjon and the journalism course is quite broad. There's so many different areas. So giving me the opportunity to look at those different areas has really kind of helped me develop into having skills in so many different areas and develop that love for what I do now.

I chose Marjon just because of those small class sizes and that kind of interactive that you get from the lecturers. I heard from a lot of other unis that are bigger, you don't get that one-on-one time. You don't get that attention. You need to come into Marjon and having that attention and one-on-one kind of interactivity really attracted me to the course. My kind of work experience throughout was with Plymouth Raiders. I actually volunteered there for two seasons whilst at uni. And then it kind of developed into that job role.

My favorite memories are probably we went onto two trips. Whilst at uni we went to Prague and to Belgium. It was kind of the first time the course had done it. So we went out there and kind of worked with international students, which was quite an odd experience, but we worked on live video productions with Facebook Live and stuff like that. So that kind of challenged and working with international students was a real good memory for me.

Advice for people currently on the course, I'd say take any opportunity that comes your way. That's one of the biggest things I learned, was any opportunity, no matter how small, how big, forget about the money, just take it and kind of bank that experience and portfolio. It's all going to help in the future. Anyone that's thinking of study at Marjon, I'd say definitely come because it's being a smaller uni, everyone knows each other. It's a lot of friendlier environment. There's no kind of worries of other people that are getting in your way. You're going to get that time with your lecturers and you're going to have the opportunity to grow as a person.